Mountain Lion Server - Part 3

Apple have released Mountain Lion Server as a simple add on to Mountain Lion, for the incredible price of just $19.99. But is it of any use to home users?

Can Mountain Lion Server be used as a replacement for some iCloud features?

In this week's show, Todd Olthoff continues his exploration of some of the typical features uses that home users might benefit from, this time taking a look at some of the steps required to configure your server, gives some guidance on setting up a Mail service and remotely accessing your home network from the Internet via VPN.

These tasks are not to be taken lightly and do required some skills and background knowledge of some fairly technical subjects, and as such they are not aimed at inexperienced Mac users. In addition, everyones setup may be slightly different and it's impossible for us to give specific guidance on your own particular setup. However, even if you have no wish to setup your own server, I'm sure you'll find the screencast interesting and it's fascinating to see the inner workings of OSX server.

This full tutorial includes sections on:

• Registering & Setting Up a Public Domain Name
• Setting Up the Mail Service
• Setting Up MX Records
• Setting Up Mail on Your Client Computers
• Setting Up VPN
• Connecting to VPN
• Sharing Your Server's Screen Remotely

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