hi, thanks for getting back to me - it's good to hear there's someone else trying this out! with all the new web based technologies built into mac os x i'm really suppressed that so few people appear to be using them? the information on the web (both independent and from apple) is scant and not particularly helpful - it soon goes into heavy jargon and assumes a fair bit of knowledge - something apple has been pretty good on in the past.
managed to find some great info at: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/08/23/jaguar_server.html theres loads of stuff on how to set up jaguar as a server (the standard client version rather than the os x server version), configuring sendmail and all sorts of other stuff. > You have static IP? Lucky you!!! i know! it's weird but demon.net have it as standard on the packages i've been looking at. check out: http://www.demon.net/adsl/expresspackages/expressmac-home.html it seems like a pretty good deal compared to the others out there in the uk. > You should associate your IP address > with a url for ease of recall. Go to www.dyndns.org and sign up for a > (free account). Then download and install the DynDNS client software. > This will sync your ip address with your chosen URL (i.e. > Jake.gotdns.org or whatever you wish). i've already got a domain name registered - rather than using the DynDNS service can i 'forward' the url to it? for example at the moment it points to some freespace i have. are there advantages to using DynDNS over web forwarding? the other thing i may try and do is connect my url to the adsl service - again not to sure of the merits of doing this (and may wait till the domain expires and then renew it with demon.) > Next, I haven't really had a problem with my umax S900 in sleep mode > and it wakes fine on network activity, however, it takes some time for > the hard drives to spin up (about 30 sec or so). If you don't mind > that, you will be ok. You should know that I am running OS X 10.2.2 > Server and it was designed to wake instantly on internet traffic, so I > am not sure if difficulties will arise if you use the OS X 10.2.2 > client software (the standard retail product). i'm gonna have to test this one out. a friend of mine left his machine on for me to download stuff via ftp - he said that he put it into sleep and off he went. wer'e not sure if it woke up (he was at work!) so i'm going to test it. having said that, if i set the machine sleep time to around 10mins then in theory it will have a snooze if nobody request anything from the server... get back to when i've cracked that one! > The built in firewall does a fine job--it is already preconfigured to > allow traffic on the FTP, AFP, and HTTP ports. If you want to use > secure telnet, VNC (remote control), or other software utilizing remote > access, you will need to open those ports in your built in firewall. > Whoever advised you to separate your "valuable" data on another drive > or partition was smart. Unmounting it is the key. that is really good news! the 80gig drive arrived yesterday and is all up an running. i think i'll be carving up the primary 20gig disk for osx and websites etc and then chuck all my personal app's, work and other files on the 2nd drive. then i can unmount it and hopefully protect it from prying eyes... > As for sharing, you have two options. You can do the easy thing and buy > a router (which will act as a firewall and a hub), or you can use a > software router, IPNetRouter is one I can think of, but its not free. > I'm sure there are free Open Source versions ported for OS X, you just > need to do a little hunting. Please note that the router (hardware or > software) is necessary to share internet access among all your > computers. If you just want to share files, all you need to do is set > up your mac for file sharing, but you will need to assign IP addresses > to your other computers (192.168.0.x where x can range anywhere from 1 > to 254). To physically connect the computers you will need an ethernet > crossover cable (not a standard ethernet cable). It would be best if > you bought a hub. My suggestion is to purchase a router--it will act as > a router, firewall, hub, and allows for ease of filesharing without > assigning IP addresses. i've been doing some more looking around on this one. apparently mac os x is the 1st mac os to offer 'internet' sharing - something windows has had for ages apparently.... have a look in the sharing control panel, in the 3rd window there's a option called 'internet'. if you click the 'share the connection' check box it brings up a warning about violating a isp agreement (i think this will be ok - the adsl package i'm looking at says it can be shared with a router?). click ok to that and then start and away you go... ... the only thing it doesn't do is tell you how to set the other machines up and if it supports pc's and os9. i'm trying to borrow the powerbook from work this weekend so i'll test it out. have a look at: http://homepage.mac.com/macsatin/editorials/2002/sep/ internet_sharing.html theres a pretty good explanation of how it all works. i think the worry for 'large' networks is having a redundant machine to host the connection - but this shouldn't be a problem for me. the main usage will be evenings and weekends. > With respect to FTP and firewire, I have had no problems using this > configuration and has allowed me to set up many different drives as I > see fit. But again, I am using OS X Server which allows me to > arbitrarily assign any mounted hard drive or directory as a sharepoint. > If you are using OS X (the non-server version), I suggest you download > the most excellent CrushFTP Server software (www.crushftp.com). Its not > free ($25) but there is a 30 day evaluation--and besides, the author is > a one-man show who put together an FTP server which is, in my opinion, > far better than Apple's offering. had some fun with this bit! have you played with the netinfo manager? i've bee able to change the 'home' directory of a user like this: 1 - go to system prefs and launch up the users panel. create a new user and call it ftpuser and give it a secure password. 2 - this will create the 'users' set of folders in the os x disk/ users. 3 - on the partition/drive/firewire disk you want to store the user on create a folder called 'users' with a sub folder called 'ftpuser ' now the fun bit (and this could much everything up...) 3 - launch the netinfo app from the utilities folder. click the 'users' section in the middle payne and then the 'ftpuser' from list. click the padlock, stick your password in and then click the 'home' bit in the list. change this to the path of your firewire disk. for example: volumes/firewiredisk/users/ftpuser 4 - now log out and log back in again as the ftpuser. now, if you log in as an ftp user it should take you straight to the folder on the firewire disk. only one problem so far... i haven't figured out how to stop users climb back up the folder tree and being able to see the rest of the mac! i wanna lock them out... real tricky. i'm planning on using this method to change the default location of all the users on my machine - ie. keep all the 'system' stuff on the os x partition but the users info will be on the much larger users disk. this means i can keep all the users info on a big partition (where it's safe) and the os on a smaller partition. if anything ever goes wrong with x i can just reinstall it on the os partition - all the settings etc will be preserved on the users disk. be interested to hear your thoughts - it's a tricky thing to much around with as the os is quite young i suppose but it's good fun! cheers, jake -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? 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