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Install two like drives and use the disk utility application is the easiest way. It's pretty much drag and drop. You'll want to be sure that those two drives are data free. If they're not, there is a way to setup the mirror raid and rebuild in the background on Panther, but it's not for the...

Yeah, as it was said, you're best bet is to have the Hardware RAID Card. The Apple branded card supports booting, as opposed to others. If not, I'd go with what you are used to. Do a RAID 1 on the first two drives for a Mirror Boot and then use the third drive to replicate your files to as...

I'd be sure that your W2k3 Server is trying to join via a supported method, considering you're trying to tie into an NT style domain. It might be an issue with some sort of more advanced security. You can also enable directory service debug logging and attempt to join the server and see what...

Diablo pretty much hit it on the head, though I'm a fan of the "modern hardware" idea! ;) One thing I would add. Look into getting two drives that are identical in spec (size, speed). Consider making them into a Mirror RAID (RAID 1) for that server's boot drive and then replacing the OS back...

As it's been said, you can run Mac OS X Server on non-server hardware. The Xserve hardware does provide lots of additional features, such as enterprise grade parts, redundant power supplies, a large amount of user replaceable parts (and full service kits you can purchase), enclosure features...

You have two different things. Keeping internal IPs and DNS is up to you, as Kees said. If you want to keep a persistent IP and DNS record outside for Web access or Email access, you can sign up with DynDNS.com and install a dynamic DNS updater. This will keep a public DNS record up to date...

I think 2 Xserves would be a good start. If you decide to keep Active Directory around (I got the impression that those were the 2003 domain users), you can integrate the Mac OS X Servers into the domain. Conversely, you can use the tools to export the LDAP info from your AD into a new Open...

Could be. I don't have a copy of Premium or such here to try it with, but you could try it out and see how it goes. I would think that Vista would be using the same default security settings for connecting to SMB shares. Worth a shot, I'd think it should be viable. :) Michael

I think if you have a solution that you are happy with, you should stick with it. The tape gives you more flexibility than FW drives would. They're always attractive, but much easier to break. I haven't used TM on a Server. I've used AFP shares on a Leopard Server to backup wireless...

Cool. About how much data are you in charge of backing up with BRU? I'm always curious to hear about how other people tackle this task! Michael

Out of curiosity, what is everyone using for backing up their Mac OS X Servers? Michael

Be a bit careful, manually modifying the hostconfig file is not the preferred method since Tiger. There are other tools that modify those files (such as scutil) and having the manual entry can prove to be problematic. Not to knock it. I had to get used to not doing it anymore myself a...

Well, you don't "have" to have a static IP. It does make things much simpler, but you can easily get around that limitation through using services (free, at that) like the DynDNS.com service, which automatically updates your DNS pointer with the proper IP address. :) Michael

As as many questions as you like. :) Yes, Mail comes bundles in Mac OS X Server. It includes the antivirus engine and the junk mail filtering services as well. Michael

Mac OS X Server can provide many of those services for you. Many folks use Mac OS X Server's Mail service as a great filtering, virus checking and spam blocking solution in front of another Mail server (like Exchange). It can be used on its own, too. :) Leopard ships with Apache 1 and 2, with...

Hi all - In what's become a yearly release, I have officially released the fifth edition of the Apple Enterprise Backup Solutions paper. If you are unfamiliar with the document, it is a free paper that will help you find the right backup solution for your environment, outlining various...

You could try deleting out the MCX information from the user account. ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mcx.manifests The manifests are the MCX preferences. You could also try deleting out the MCX cache via dscl: dscl . -delete /Config/mcx_cache Remember, you want to be doing this on the...

Cool. Fair enough. You may owe it to yourself to take a quick look at the Promise RAID that Apple now ships. It has active/active RAID controllers and would provide 4Gb FC connectivity instead of SCSI. If you need to find a backup solution, take a peek at the white paper on my site. I...

I don't think you should have an issue, but it all depends on the architecture of the storage, really. The current Apple Promise RAID is configured primarily with 750GB SATA drives and provides very good performance. Any reason why you're going with the array you're looking at? I don't think...

Ahhh - that's a bit different :) FTP is port 21. You could enable the FTP service and setup the port forwarding for that. Michael