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Part I: Getting Lion Server Up and Running
Spotlight Server
For Mac users, Spotlight is an indispensable search feature that lets you find
a file almost instantaneously. Spotlight Server does the same for files on the
server without bogging down server performance. Spotlight Server does
this by indexing the content of the files. This server also provides advanced
search features, including Boolean logic and the use of quoted phrases, and
stores search criteria in the form of Smart Folders.
Management Tools in Lion Server
In addition to providing services to client computers, Lion Server comes with
a set of software for managing these servers. You can install several of the
tools on any system running Mac OS X 10.7 on the network, allowing you to
keep the server Mac out of sight in a secure location.
Flipping through this book, you see that I mostly describe two tools: the
Server application and Server Admin. Workgroup Manager is the third most-
used tool. The other tools play smaller, more specialized roles.
The Server app is included with Lion Server. You’ll find it in the Applications
folder. But you won’t find Server Admin, Workgroup Manager, and other more
advanced tools. You have to go get them yourself from Apple at this location:
http://support.apple.com/downloads.
The Server app and Server Admin are both for configuring services, but you
use each to configure a different set of services. The Server app generally
includes the services that most people might use, such as file service, calen-
dar, web, and wiki. Server Admin tends to include services that not everyone
may use or that are aimed at infrastructure, such as DHCP, DNS, NAT, and
Open Directory. The Server app is the simpler of the two, providing fewer
configuration options than Server Admin.
If you have Mac server experience, these tools are a major change from earlier
versions of Mac OS X Server, which had a utility called Server Preferences
instead of the Server app. However, in Mac OS X Server versions 10.5 and 10.6,
the two utilities presented different views of the same services, one simplified,
and Server Admin with more configuration options. This is no longer the case
with Lion Server, which now has the two utilities configuring different ser-
vices. The lone exception is Mail, which appears in both tools.
If you’re handy with Unix commands, you can still configure Lion Server
via Terminal.
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