It is important to note that each point release of Server is its own product. This is mostly the configuration interface, as the back-end services mostly included in OS X proper. Starting with version 10.7, OS X Server became available as a downloadable update to Mac OS X, adding extra server features lacking in the Client version of the OS. MySQL v4.0.16 and PHP v4.3.7 are also included. The inclusion of SAMBA version 3 allows tight integration with Windows clients and servers. Many common network services are provided such as NTP, SNMP, Web Server, Mail Server, LDAP, AppleTalk, Print Server.

The new Workgroup Manager interface improves configuration significantly.

User and file management are provided via Open Directory, an LDAP compatible server architecture.

Version 10.3 (released August 2003) of OS X Server presented a mature, fully featured server environment. An exception, however, are User services, which are based on (NeXT's) NetInfo. Most of OS X Server's services are based on standard BSD tools, e.g., the Apache web server Mac OS X Server adds a GUI interface to these services. Mac OS X Server mainly adds server management software-web, mail, and user services. WebObjects was included with the server package.īeginning with version 10.0 of Mac OS X Server released May 21, 2001, the server version and the standard version are nearly identical. The GUI looked more like OPENSTEP did, with an emulation layer for running legacy Mac OS 8.6 based applications. The first version of Mac OS X Server, released on Maand dubbed '1.0' was a hybrid of OPENSTEP from NeXT Computer and Mac OS 8.6. 2.8 Mac OS X Server 10.6 (Snow Leopard).2.1 Mac OS X Server 1.x (Hera / Rhapsody).

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