wazmac || Wazza's 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Server setup notes

The notes below describe the installation and configuration of an OS X 10.6 Server in a K-12 school environment. These notes are designed to assist teaching staff to configure a basic server to provide services that support such an environment, and are not intended to be comprehensive nor prescriptive.

OS X 10.6 Server (Snow Leopard) is the last of the ‘old’ OS X server configurations, built around Server Admin and WorkGroup Manager apps.

OS X 10.7 Server (Lion), 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and 10.9 (Mavericks) have transitioned to a new interface and structure, reflecting a new purpose for servers in schools.

The notes below should be considered ‘legacy’ notes.

	Please note: As local schools move to cloud-based file services, such as Google Drive, the need for a local file-server is diminishing. For this reason the notes below are no longer being actively updated. It may be that all a school needs on the local network these days is a DHCP server and caching server?

10.6 Server – Install & Configure
	Installing Lion Server installing server software; configuring initial setup options.
	Install Server Admin & DNS adjusting default configuration; adding zone machines; checking hostname; setting up forwarders; testing lookup.
	Services Overview
	AFP, Web SMB
	DHCP
	Open Directory
	Creating Sharepoints – Pt 1 Creating and designating shared folders for Groups and User Home Folder directories.
	Users & Groups Creating Users and Groups, assigning Home folder sharepoints, creating account Preset profiles, bulk importing users.
	Creating Sharepoints – Pt 2 Configuring permissions for network re-imaging access, and permissions for subfolders within the Groups folder.
	Client Imaging These notes describe the process of re-imaging stand-alone and network computers using DeployStudio. (From old wazmac site)
	Managing Preferences (983k) Managing the Dock, Printing, Group folder, Proxy server, Safari and other default preferences for network users.
	Creating a New User Template Setting a variety of user-specific application preferences for initial deployment to each new user.
Client login to 10.6 Open Directory
	OS X 10.6 clients See also: 10.5 Client Config
	Win XP – Workgroup Accessing Mac OS X Server from Win XP in a local Workgroup.
	Win XP – Domain (639k) Setting up Mac OS X Server to be a Primary Domain Controller for Win XP computers.
Setup a school Intranet
	School Intranet Setting up your Mac OS X server to host a school intranet site built using iWeb – for teachers’, students’ and faculty sites.