I just bought a snow leopard mac mini server, everything came as a bundle pretty nice. The snow leopard server software preinstalled on the mac mini too. Only thing I'm not sure about is does this also act as a wifi router? In the back of the box it says "airport extreme wireless networking included", I assumed this means that this can act as a wifi router like an aiport extreme? Is this true? If so, how do I do it?
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I thought the mac mini server also serves as a wifi router?
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Here is the example for Leopard, should be the same in Snow Leopard: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8156.html
Internet Sharing does not exist in Leopard or Snow Leopard Server, as it does in Leopard and Snow Leopard client at least.
So the above KB article is not relevant.
What you need to do is enable NAT in Server Admin and then run the Gateway Setup Assistant from the Overview tab of the NAT service.
Take a look here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.5/en/c10ns10.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.5/en/c1ns2.html
So the above KB article is not relevant.
What you need to do is enable NAT in Server Admin and then run the Gateway Setup Assistant from the Overview tab of the NAT service.
Take a look here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.5/en/c10ns10.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.5/en/c1ns2.html
I believe all that means is that it has wireless N capability (i.e., the card/chip).
In fact the iMac says the same thing, and it's not a wifi router either.
Thanks so much but it has no mention of the wireless setup anywhere does it only act as a router over LAN?
according to this article I can create an ad hoc wifi, but it didn't say how I can do it. Does anyone know? http://ipliance.com/index.php/eng/Blog/(day)/4/(month)/1/(year)/2010
Yes. That said, if you had read the link in Post #2 of this thread by flopticalcube, then you would be even better off.
There's no Internet Sharing in snow leopard server so http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8156.html doesn't apply. Good try on being a smart ass though, maybe next time?