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Ahrbok

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Hhi to all, I'm new in this forum...
I hope I'll find here some aswers to my questions...
I'm a student at University of Milan and I would like to develop some software on mac platform but I'm not sure that Mac is for me.
I've got an iBook with Mac OSX installed, but I would like to install the Mac OSX Server, to realize a multi OS lan and realize some client/server program
Here are my questions:
- can I buy Mac OSX Server and upgrade the current version on my iBook? Should I do some operations on the disk or it's an esy upgrade procedure?
- After installation of Mac OSX Server I would like to centralize managing of users and the profiles, but users con access to the system also from some terminals (others iBook, not diskless terminals); is it possible? The clients have their own disks but profiles are on the server
- Is it possible to install all the application on the server (Office, and others) to install only a copy of the software and to permit the use to the clients via lan? A friend of mine told me that I can't do tha, without installing porting of X11 for Mac OS, and so launching some applications that works with X11... Is this correct?
- I should realize a client/server program with sockets? Are Mac OS sockets 100% compatibles with UNIX Sockets?
- On my iBook I've installed apache and mysql, what files should I modify to let this servers self start on power on process?

Thanks a lot, and sorry for my bad english
 
Ahrbok

Apache is already running on OS X. It's automatically started on startup.

Microsoft Office v.X for OS X requires licenses fo each user, although I'm sure there are volume licenses for many users.

You might want to look at OpenOffice beta for OS X, which runs in X-Windows.

Apple has just released it's own version of X11. It is fast! You can download it from Apple's website.

I'll stop there. I'm sure someone can do a better job answering the rest of your questions.

Good luck!

Doug
 
.. Why do you want to run a server in your ibook? [trying to do some software and .. as hoepli has a bit salty prices on imported programming books, i order anything i need from amazon.co.uk]
 
Was that a personal question to me or to the board? Think that it's now 9 AM EST or 6 AM PST in saturday morning.. so most technical people [the non-Europeans] are sleeping. Patience.
 
Here are my questions:
- can I buy Mac OSX Server and upgrade the current version on my iBook? Should I do some operations on the disk or it's an esy upgrade procedure?

Um. . . it's just like any other apple install, put in the cd, click restart, click next a bunch of times and you have it.
- After installation of Mac OSX Server I would like to centralize managing of users and the profiles, but users con access to the system also from some terminals (others iBook, not diskless terminals); is it possible? The clients have their own disks but profiles are on the server
You want a password server? That's possible, and you can provide it out to all other clients on the network.
- Is it possible to install all the application on the server (Office, and others) to install only a copy of the software and to permit the use to the clients via lan? A friend of mine told me that I can't do tha, without installing porting of X11 for Mac OS, and so launching some applications that works with X11... Is this correct?
You can set up netboot to boot the clients off the server and have 1 centralized HD image, but that's very unessary. A better idea is to get Remote Destop. You can schedule the distrobutions of programs out to lots of clients, among other things.
- I should realize a client/server program with sockets? Are Mac OS sockets 100% compatibles with UNIX Sockets? Um. . . I don't even understand what you trying to do. You can make a socket do whatever you want it to, that's the beauty of programming. I don't know why you'd need a "socket program" though.
- On my iBook I've installed apache and mysql, what files should I modify to let this servers self start on power on process?
Apache is installed by default. It should start by default unless you broke the original install. www.entropy.ch has a startup item for MySQL. just look in your /Library/StartupItems/ folder for examples.

Sorry, not all of us LIVE on this board and can answer every quetion within 6 hours of posting it.
 
- Is it possible to install all the application on the server (Office, and others) to install only a copy of the software and to permit the use to the clients via lan? A friend of mine told me that I can't do tha, without installing porting of X11 for Mac OS, and so launching some applications that works with X11... Is this correct?
You can set up netboot to boot the clients off the server and have 1 centralized HD image, but that's very unessary. A better idea is to get Remote Destop. You can schedule the distrobutions of programs out to lots of clients, among other things.
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Can you give me more detailed informations about this solution?
- I should realize a client/server program with sockets? Are Mac OS sockets 100% compatibles with UNIX Sockets? Um. . . I don't even understand what you trying to do. You can make a socket do whatever you want it to, that's the beauty of programming. I don't know why you'd need a "socket program" though.
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I was not referring to the type of socket, but the way to implement it... I should develop in C and in PHP, my iBook is not always with me... but I have a Linux notebook... this is the machine I should use in most of cases and then transfers all the programs to the iBook; it's not a great surprise finding incompatibility problems.

thanks for the patience
 
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