Lion server configuration …. cont

• Hi S.T. Smith,

   
  

  Great write up!  Do you have any Mac clients bound to the Lion Server?  I have not been able to bind either Lion or Snow Leopard clients to my server. If so, where in your steps would you configuring Open Directory & DHCP? Is there anything special that needs to be done with Open Directory?

   
  

   
  

   
  

  Thanks,

   
  

   
  

  John

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  S.T.Smith

  Re: How To Install A (Almost) Working Lion Server With Profile Management/SSL/OD/Mail/iCal/Address Book/VNC/Web/etc.

  Dec 14, 2011 8:50 AM (in response to JFWX5)

  Yes, I have bound a SL client to the server -- I just followed the GUI and it worked.

   
  

  The magic, undocumented step above that creates an OD Master with absolutely no user configuration other than diradmin's password is:

   
  

  • D. Server.app>Profile Manager>Configure... [Magic script should create OD Master, signed SSL cert]

   
  

  After that, Server Admin>OD can be used for configuration. And I run behind a router so I don't enable DHCP, though you can configure it and turn this on using Server Admin or, presumably, serveradmin from the command line.

   
  

  If you have a dynamic IP, I should also mention the great program ddclient, which automatically checks your IP every 10 minutes and updates the DNS registration tables if it changes. This is App Store>Download Xcode, install, then install Macports, then "sudo port selfupdate ; sudo port install ddclient ; sudo port load ddclient". A working config file /opt/local/etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf has entries that look like:

   
  

  daemon=600                    # check every 10 min

   
  

  mail=sysadmin                # mail all msgs to root

  mail-failure=sysadmin            # mail failed update msgs to root

   
  

  protocol=dyndns2

  use=web

  login=my-username

  password=my-password

  domain.dyndns-ip.com

   
  

  protocol=namecheap,                \

  server=dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com,        \

  login=domain.com,                \

  password=XXXXXXX-hash-from-dns-registrar-XXXXXXXXXX    \

  @

   
  

  protocol=namecheap,                \

  server=dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com,        \

  login=domain.com,                \

  password=XXXXXXX-hash-from-dns-registrar-XXXXXXXXXX    \

  server

   
  

  protocol=namecheap,                \

  server=dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com,        \

  login=domain.com,                \

  password=XXXXXXX-hash-from-dns-registrar-XXXXXXXXXX    \

  www