How to Host Network Address Translation (NAT) on Lion Server
If you’re not using network address translation (NAT) on another device to connect your network to the Internet, you can run it on Lion Server in conjunction with Lion Server’s firewall. You use Server [more…]
How to Assign an SSL Certificate to a Lion Server Service
In Lion Server, you won’t see check boxes for SSL in the configuration screens for user services. Instead, you enable SSL for a service simply by assigning an SSL certificate. [more…]
How to Create an SSL Certificate in Lion Server
You can use SSL certificates with Address Book, web, e-mail, iCal, and iChat services in Lion Server to encrypt data sent between clients and the server. To create an SSL Certificate signed by a trusted [more…]
How to Become a Certificate Authority Using Lion Server
You may want to set up your Lion Server to act as a certificate authority, with the ability to sign certificates created elsewhere in the organization. Use the Keychain Access to create a certificate authority [more…]
Virtual Private Network Basics for Lion Server
If you set up Lion Server as a private server (with a .private domain name), not serving to the Internet, a VPN is one way for users outside the building to privately connect to your hosted websites, wikis [more…]
How to Get Your Lion Server Network Ready for VPN
If Lion Server is set up as a private server, a VPN is one way for users outside the building to privately connect to your hosted websites, wikis, and other services. For your users to access the local [more…]
How to Configure VPN in Lion Server
The Server app in Lion Server automates the configuration of a VPN service, but doesn’t give you many options. The Server app allows you to easily do four things: [more…]
How to Configure Lion Server VPN Clients
Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS devices can all connect to your network through Lion Server’s VPN. Mac OS X clients and iOS devices can take advantage of Profile Manager for getting VPN configuration information [more…]
Virus Protection for Your Lion Server and Clients
Lion Server has a few built in anti-virus tools, but if you want to ensure full and complete protection for your Lion Server and its clients, you might try [more…]
Hardware You'll Need to Network Your Smart Home
When you're getting ready to network your home to turn it into a smart home, you might be surprised at how many cables, cords, connectors, jacks, controllers, panels, and other gadgets it takes. The following [more…]
Where to Put Your Smart Home's Networking Hardware
When you're making a smart home network, it's best to create a dedicated room for your networking equipment — a central wiring closet just like those in modern offices and other commercial buildings. The [more…]
Why Make Your Home a Smart Home?
A smart home is a cutting-edge, fully connected home. Turning your home into a smart home gives you a lot more than the title of techie king of the neighborhood. By networking your home, you can do a bevy [more…]
The Cost of Networking Your Home
A networked home is a happy home. But how much will it cost to make your home a smart home? Surprisingly little, or surprisingly a lot. It depends on whether you take baby steps or go whole hog. [more…]
Smart Homes For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Turn your house into a smart home and live in a cutting-edge, fully connected home. Your smart home will have the latest trends in home networking, entertainment, automation, and control that will make [more…]
