[RKDinOKC]

Well I spent the weekend trying every option to set up my server with Directory Services AND web/ftp/mail. Still does not work with my email and ftp programs. Don't know why Apple took away the option to set different IPs on a server to different services. Instead their current server software that controls Directory Services takes over all the IPs on a box. It was a lazy programmer, stupid move on their part. There are several hacks that are supposed to work, BUT they don't.

So going to have to setup two servers. One Server to handle Directoy Services, user permissions, user device management, and backups/time machine, And another server that handles web/ftp/email that authenticates thru the Directory Server. Since I have only 100 users just one server would handle the load easily I barely see over 20% usage, but NO, I have to set it up with two boxes.

Was planning to setup my two boxes as one main and one failover. If the first crashes or has a problem it automatically shuts down and the second one takes over (there is an app for that). But no, instead I am going to have to use backup drives so if one fails I have to go in and manually set it to boot from the backup drive. Now, if I want to setup failover I will have to get two more servers!

Going to have to check into running mac os servers as virtual machines with VM ware. I can see why it is so popular in the windows world these days.