Here’s another tech post for you to digest.

Todays fun has to do with configuring an Apple XServe. These are very very sweet machines, and not just due to their impressive performance. These things come headless (without videocard/monitor) by default, so even though Apple provides some nice remote administration programs you must use a number of Command Line Interface (CLI) programs to get everything you need done, done.
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This will be another entry for work purposes. I’m in the process of migrating our network from two Windows 2000 servers down to one Windows 2003 server running pretty much everything.

I’m a little paranoid about having everything running off of one server, but… such is the need.

Right now I’m setting up VPN access to the new server and to the network. The goal is to have faculty be able to access the network from home and be able to connect to the campus email services as well (which means creating a route outside our subnet and to the Internet).
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