Nice overview of setting up OS X server

By Scott McNulty

We here at TUAW tend to focus on the consumer side of the Mac, i.e. iMacs,
iPods, etc. This makes sense because you, our dear readers, are user of those products and we aim to please.

However, there is another side to Apple which includes nifty things like the
Xserve, the Xserve RAID, and
Mac OS X server. TechSoup has written up a nice overview of how to set up OS X 10.3 server for a small network that may be of interest to some of you out there. If you have a relatively fast Mac just sitting around, why not make your home network more robust?

Beware though, that since running a server is a little more complicated than setting up a single user machine you may run into situations like this, as quoted from the TechSoup piece, "If DNS is not set up correctly when you attempt to start Open Directory, it will fail, and cannot be repaired without re-installing the operating system. Yep, that's right, you'll have to re-install the whole operating system, so be careful."

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