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Help setting up Mac OSX Server (10.3)...

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hongkongfever

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Yeah I'm one of those individual who know PC's very well but not macs. We currently have an OS 9.2.2 server and about 30 eMacs (that can dual boot between OSX and OS9.2.2). Ideally we want to use OSX on all of the eMacs but because our server is only OS9.2.2 we were forced to set the eMacs boot to 9.2.2.

Fast forward to now. We finally got a copy of OSX server Panther and I installed it and everything. Now I'm pretty clueless as to what to do next because I wasn't the one who initially installed and setup the OS 9.2.2 server. Basically we just the server to be an application server. Students can log into restricted accounts and run specified programs and print. Nothing else. Can someone give me a general outline of how to go about setting this up? Or maybe pointing me to the correct documentation? The documentation bundled with the software is so complicated when I just want to do something pretty simple.
 
You'll need to provide more information. What do you want them to do? Are you sure it can be done under OS X? Does the software they're supposed to run work under OS X?
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
You'll need to provide more information. What do you want them to do? Are you sure it can be done under OS X? Does the software they're supposed to run work under OS X?
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This is for an elementary school. The basic task is for the clients to be able to run software from the server. This includes educational program, web browser, and word processing. All of the software have been tested to work on OS 9.2.2 and OSX so that's a non-issue. The job of the server is basically to host the software and restrict access on the client side.

As for me, the administrator, I want to be able to change settings, install programs, and do the basic stuff that admins do to monitor and take care of the 30 client computers.

One thing I am curious about is if I need Appleshare. I know we need it for the OS9.2.2 server because that is how the client computers communicate with the server within our school site. But the problem is we only own one license copy of Appleshare. And I can't use that license because we are NOT trashing the OS 9.2.2 server. It will still serve the rest of the Macs in the various classrooms. It's just that we can now have a dedicated Mac OSX server for the 30 eMacs in our lab.
 
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