After you go through the server setup process, you’ll be on the Lion desktop.Ħ. You should now have control of the mini as though you had a screen, keyboard and mouse attached. Leave the user name empty, and enter the entire serial number of the Mac mini (all caps).ĥ. Now you should be able to type vnc://ip.address into Safari (again, where “ip.address” is the mini’s IP address) and Screen Sharing will ask you to log in. System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -restart -agent -privs -allĪfter a few seconds it should say ARDAgent is running.Ĥ.
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Now you have to start the screen sharing service, as explained in this Apple knowledge base article (this command is bullet point 1). It’s also on both the box and the Mac mini itself.ģ. When prompted for password, enter the entire serial number (not just the first eight digits, for those familiar with earlier server software), in all caps. If it asks you about whether it’s ok to connect, answer yes. (where “ip.address” is the ip address of the mini). In Lion Server’s freshly started state, the Screen Sharing service isn’t running, but SSH is. Find the Ethernet ID on the Mac mini box or the exterior of the computer itself, and match it to the list of MAC (network ID, not Macintosh) addresses in your router’s DHCP log.Ģ. Most routers, including AirPorts, have a DHCP log which shows what IP addresses are assigned to what computers. Like so many things, it’s fairly easy once you know how, but I haven’t yet seen this info all in once place.
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SETTING UP MAC MINI SERVER HOW TO
Well, Apple sure doesn’t tell you how to do that, so it was time to dig in and puzzle it out. I just wanted to remote control the server via Screen Sharing without having to fuss with the Admin Tools.
SETTING UP MAC MINI SERVER MAC OS X
Which is great if you happen to be running Mac OS X 10.7, but I still haven’t installed Lion on my chronically-short-of-space MacBook Air 11″, and Snow Leopard won’t run the newest Lion Server Admin Tools. If you download their Server Admin Tools 10.7, it has a feature which will let you configure the server over the network. We needed to go through its initial configuration remotely.Īpple theoretically makes this easy for you.
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Being a server, it will have no keyboard, mouse, or screen attached to it. We just set up our first Mac mini with Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) Server preinstalled.