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Servers

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A Server is a central resource which everyone communicates via. Today these Servers are everywhere, usually separated and independent, for Data, Email, Content Management CMS, Chat, Print …

We build and configure company Servers for: File Sharing, Email, Web Hosting, Chat, Shared Calendars, Updates, Backups, Security and Disaster Recovery.

Servers for Mac and Windows

Servers for Mac and Windows

Servers for Sharing

There are many uses for a Server and perhaps the most obvious one is to Share files with collagues in your office. But over the years your business process has grown and we now interact more and share information with clients, part-time staff, consultants and suppliers, all of whom we wish to share various types of files.

Office, Home, International

Our offices are everywhere today and everyone needs to be connected and up-to-date.

Cloud Servers

But today we are not all in the same office, we still need access to those files, we need to print, email, watch shared video’s, download software, sync calendars and also have it all secure.

Meltdown

It’s Fantastic what we can do. We do more, share more, work more and we have taken on a lot more responsibility and technicalities in the process. It’s all becoming quite complicated and we need an IT Secretary to record and manage this complexity as you don’t have the time or knowledge to keep up.

macOS Backup

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Daily, weekly, monthly, on site or off site backup requires a plan that is regularly monitored and a recovery plan to get it all back in the right place to ensure business continuity.

Mac and Windows Backups

Mac and Windows Backups

 

JRP uses the correct mix of Hardware, Software, Onsite and Onsite/Cloud backup to ensure your data is safe and that these routines are followed according to the Disaster Recovery Plan and ISO Standards.

OS X Server – WebDAV SetUp

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WebDAV can be great, not just for shared OS X iCAL Calendars, but (with OS X) as a virtual directory that users can use all over the world. Like having an AppleShare volume on your Desktop that you can drag and drop, delete and rename files.

My investigations started when a client asked “how can we share a folder between multiple offices?”.

My first thought was FTP, but this was going to involve too much additional software and the upload /download practice was not what they (or their skill base) wanted. They wanted, essentially, an AppleShare volume on their desk when they were out of the office, anywhere in the world.
Ultimately a VPN over a DSL line would be great! But we have a budget to deal with here and leased lines, VPN routers and the Admin is not available in this clients request.

My second thought as a solution was a single .Mac account where users could login to the same .Mac account. But so far this does not seem possible, .Mac is for a single user (I believe, correct me if you found otherwise).

Not that you could easily find an answer! The OS X Server manual, Helper app or Forum did not have the answer for novices. Apple has some Tech notes here:https://www.apple.com/support/macosxserver/webtechnologies/ But this was not really in ‘novice speak’.

So, finally, WebDAV seemed to be the solution, and here’s how we did it with OS X Servers easy to use interface as detailed by Apple.

01/ Launch the Server Admin application.
02/ Select Web Service.
03/ Click Settings.
04/ Click Sites.
05/ Double-click the website definition you want to edit.
06/ Click Options.
07/ Be sure the checkbox for “Enable WebDAV” is selected.
08/ Click Realms.
09/ Create a new Realm by clicking on the plus (+) button.
10/ Add users to the new Realm.
11/ Be sure the “Can Author” checkbox is selected.
12/ Save the changes.
13/ Restart Web Service.
Note: Check the permissions on the document root for your web site or on the folder(s) in question. The user “www” must have read and write permissions for Owner and Group for the WebDAV connection to work properly. Update the permissions if necessary.

Some of the logic that we learned along the way…

1/ WebDAV serves ‘documents’ over port 80 on your web site, so, you need to have your web site setup and working first (I’ll cover that in another blogg) and ensure that WebDAV is turned on.

2/ Each folder that you WebDAV share on your web site will be a Realm. You can simply accept that ‘Realm’ means ‘Folder’. So make a Realm in your web site and give it a folder to protect.

3/ You need to set users or groups who can access this ‘Realm’ or ‘Folder’.

4/ It’s really an OS X version of .htaccess meets FTP.