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24 Chapter 1 Introducing Mac OS X Server
Leopard Server in a Workgroup
The next illustration depicts a workgroup configuration of Mac OS X Server that serves
a department in a large organization. This organization has an IT group that provides
DHCP service for assigning network addresses, DNS name service, mail service, Internet
access, and a VPN.
Everyone in the department already has a user account provided by the organization’s
Open Directory server, so these user accounts have been imported to the workgroup
server. This means everyone simply uses the user name and password they already
know to authenticate for services provided by the workgroup server. Those services
were automatically set up to use the Kerberos authentication of the Open Directory
server, allowing users to log in once per session for all workgroup services.
The workgroup server provides calendar and instant messaging services that work with
the users’ Mac OS X iCal and iChat applications. The workgroup server also provides
shared folders and wiki websites for groups within the department. Some
departmental groups include participants from outside the department. A group’s
external members use their existing user accounts to access the group’s shared folder,
calendar, wiki, and blog.
The department has some Windows users, who use Internet Explorer and Safari to
access their group’s wiki, calendar, and blog. Shared folders appear as mapped drives in
their Network Places. They have also set up their PCs to use the workgroup server’s
Jabber instant messaging.