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Six Tips for Homemade "Dot Mac" Servers

Posted by pudge on from the as-opposed-to-macdot dept.

lisam writes "Alan Graham has an article on O'Reilly's MacDevCenter offering tips for homemade dot mac servers. Tips include creating a central file server, how to set up a central repository for iTunes, sharing images, collaborating with WebDAV, etc."

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  1. Previous article by Draoi · · Score: 3, Informative

    This came up on /. before (tho' not the O'Reilly link). Read all about it here

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    1. Re:Previous article by Greedo · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yes, the previous article is (IMHO) much more informative, as it tells you how to set up a fake .MAC server.

      The current article tells you what you can do with it ... kinda. The language is rather obtuse in some sections, and all of those tips rely on the server being an OS X machine. What if I want my central server to run Linux? BSD?

      The useful articles are this one which explains how to set up a fake .Mac server, and use Apple's Backup with it, and this one about making an iSync server.

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  2. This is your 5am wake up call by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 3, Informative

    A few things, while you're groggy:

    1. It's not Linux, but a BSD distro can do it, out of the box.

    2. Some of the suggestions require a little effort on the client side as well (The global iTunes settings, for example).

    3. There's a WebDAV module for Apache 2.0. If you don't want to use the one already available on a Mac, and you can't be bothered to set it up yourself, then don't complain about it not already being done for you.

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  3. Re:*ack!* by Huge+Pi+Removal · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't need to fake an iCal server, you just set up WebDAV on whatever web server you have lying around. iCal doesn't care if you use .Mac or an in-house WebDAV sevrer.

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  4. for all you mac server people.... by fredopalus · · Score: 3, Informative

    you may also want to check out Setting up a Site Server with Jaguar

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  5. I wrote this piece... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    to give people who have already setup a "Homemade Dot Mac" server (previous articles) some additional ideas of what they can use it for. Prior to OS X I had no idea how useful running Apache could be...and I couldn't believe how easy it wat to get started. OS X never ceases to amaze me...everything I throw at it...it is capable of doing. You start with Apache and next thing you know you can't stop trying new things!