08-25-2007, 09:26 AM

Hello,

Does anyone have much experience of different Mac OS versions. I have been offered a 100% legit still sealed Mac OS 10.4 Server for £100 ($200). Which is obviously superb value. I bought a Mac mini in January to see if Apples were for me and yes they are !! Since then I have bought 4 Macbooks for my kids and wife, a 12" ibook for me and a Mac Pro for me too. Now what I was thinking was this. I have just upgraded the mini to 2Gb and wanted to put the server OS on it. I realise that a Mac mini is hardly the best platform for a server OS but there are only likely to be 2 or 3 persons on at any time and usually less.

I plan on buying a family licence for 10.5 will the 10.4 server still work with the new clients? I appreciate 10.5 server will have more features but it will also have a price tag of £400-500 rather than £100.

Is it straight forward to set up user authentification for the apple machines and will the mini authenticate my still remaining PCs too?

I want to use the server as a home web server, backup, print server, update server, user authentification etc

Only thing I will miss off the 10.5 list is the iCal server!

08-25-2007, 11:51 AM

The retail boxed version of Mac OS X, workstation or server, is for PowerPC Macs only. An Intel Mini will not boot that OS.

08-25-2007, 12:11 PM

I will check on it but I think it was a retail pack (but it definately states Power PC / Intel Macs). Can you not buy Mac OS to install on another intel machine such as a pro? It is an original disc serial number pack etc. I obviously want to make sure it is legit so thanks for that info. I didn't really want to spend much more than £100 for what I am going to use if for. If it was to cost much more than that I would just resurect an old PC and install linux of it again.

08-25-2007, 02:42 PM

Actually, it looks like there is now a boxed server version of OS X. I'm sorry for the confusion.

The boxed client version is still PowerPC only. Again, sorry.

08-25-2007, 03:32 PM

I have just checked with the seller of the pack and he assured me it is 100% legal and above board. He said check with Apple if I like, so I did !!

Check link below:

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL...&nplm=MA613Z/A

or from the actual dvd's pdf (just sent to me)

Supported computers
You can install this version of Mac OS X Server on any of the following
computers:
• Xserve and Xserve G5
• Power Mac G5
• Power Mac G4 and Macintosh Server G4
• Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White) and Macintosh Server G3 (Blue &
White)
• iMac and iMac G5
• eMac
• Mac mini

Now does anyone have any ideas about my original question. Will server tiger work with leopard clients?

08-26-2007, 09:39 PM

i don't see why it wouldn't. it should work no problem.