MAC OS X Server 10010.3 Panther [Electronic resources] : Visual QuickPro Guide نسخه متنی

System Requirements

Mac OS X Server 10.3's system requirements aren't much different than those of Mac OS X Client 10.3. The reason is that Mac OS X Server is Mac OS X Client, with three extra packages:

QuickTimeStreamingServer.pkg

ServerAdministrationSoftware.pkg

ServerEssentials.pkg

You can download and install the QuickTime Streaming Server from Apple's Web site on your Mac OS X Client Macintosh. Called the Darwin Streaming Server, it's identical to QuickTime Streaming Server without the trademark name QuickTime.

You can also download and install the Server Administration Software package on your client machine. These are the server administration tools discussed in Chapter 2, "Server Tools."

That leaves one package. ServerEssentials.pkg is all that separates Mac OS X Client and Mac OS X Server. And inside that package, what really makes Mac OS X Server tick?

Squirrel Mail (Web-based email interface)

Mailman (mailing list manager)

Cyrus (POP and IMAP mail server)

FTP Server Directory

Streaming directories for each user

Extra print frameworks

Apache 2.0 (in case you want to use it instead of Apache 1.x)

Five Apple-specific Apache modules

MySQL files

A few migration files

Eleven additional Startup items: NAT, IPFilter, IPFailover, IPAliases, Mailman, Watchdog, MySQL, Samba, Headless Startup, SerialTerminalSupport, and ServerManagerDaemon

About 96 additional executables (processes that run in the background, or useful Unix utilities)

Additional and edited configuration files for the new Startup items

As you can see, the only things absolutely necessary to make a Mac OS X Client a Mac OS X Server are the executables, the configuration files (almost all stored in the hidden /private/etc directory), and the Startup items. The other items are necessary to utilize some of the services that run on Mac OS X Server, but there is little difference between the two.

The hardware requirements for Mac OS X Server are listed in Table 1.2. Keep in mind that although Apple has a set of hardware requirements, this table includes a column of real-world requirements.

Apple doesn't support Mac OS X Server on PowerBooks or iBooks, although it works on those machines. If you just want to install Mac OS X Server and poke around, looking at and testing the services with one or two client machines attached to a small network, running the server software on a portable Macintosh works fine.

Tip

Mac OS X Server works more reliably when it's plugged into an active Ethernet connection as opposed to an AirPort or FireWire connection.