Wednesday, September 21, 2011

How to use OS X Lion Server as a Home Server?





You can use your OS X Lion Server as a Home Server by following these few steps:
Step-1: You need to Set Up the Profile Manager and the Apple Push Notification Service:
  • In Server app, click on the Profile Manager entry and then view the configuration options.
  • Then click on configure and you will guided through the setup of Profile Manager.
  • You also need to set up the open directory service and an SSL certificate as well.
  • Then to Set Up the Apple Push Notification Service you need to enter your Apple Id and Password and then the server will handle the certificate acquisition and installation in the background.
  • In the Profile Manager Configuration Panel you need to check on the checkbox Sign your Configuration Profiles and then click edit and select your certificate.
Step-2: Open the Profile Manager.
  • When you click and open the Open Profile Manager link at the bottom of the panel, your browser will open with a login screen.
  • Enter your Admin username and Password to View the tool.
  • Before proceeding any further make sure that you familiarize yourself through all the menus.
Step-3: In this step you are going to Enroll Your Computers.
  • Before Enrolling Your Computers you need to ensure that you have these ports forwarded to your router by your server (Port 1640 and Port 2195).
  • Without doing this you will get an “unexpected error” when you try to enroll different Computers other than the server computer. 

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