Essentially, server just installs on top of your client, entirely unlike Snow Leopard or prior where you had a server edition of the software. That’s kinda the beauty of it. Just install and use. It’s mostly a UI for built-in stuff, but there are also servers included inside the app; check out the contents of Contents/ServerRoot in the app bundle. The same app also remote-controls a Mac that runs Server already and relays alert messages from that Mac to this. So you perform the setup on one Mac, and then use the same app to connect to it from the other.
As of Yosemite, you need only purchase Server once and it’s multi-version, as opposed to prior releases where each OS upgrade was a chargeable upgrade to the Server app. So yes, install it once and continue to get updates for free for future OS releases. It makes a couple of small changes when you set the server up on the machine, most of them intuitive: continually power on, disable automatic login, and disable Spotlight indexing. On a client you probably want to undo the last of these, either with System Preferences or mdutil. On my server Mac Mini, I left it off and also turned off the HFS+ journal, for a bit of extra speed. Finally your OS version is updated to show as a server, just as though you had installed a server release. Once you have it set up and have added disks to it, it’s basically like an accessible NAS platform that you can remotely control. Very neat. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
