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ManWithAPlan

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Feb 4, 2008
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Guys, I'm a bit frustrated and have not been finding much help on the Apple OSX server support forum. I am trying to master this Mobile Access Server, using a Mini I got my hands on. I have 2 servers - the Mini running in my DMZ, and the full Mac Pro, running on the inside. I have the firewall service on each of these running quite well, no worries there. I'm allowing the right ports and not allowing the wrong ones. My internal server is the OD Master, and I think I need to make the Mini the OD Replica, so that it can allow/deny access per user/group to whatever resources I ultimately reverse proxy thru the Mini. So, for instance, janedoe is allowed to login to the Mobile access server and use mail and address book, where bobsmith is only allowed to use ical and address book, alice can only use mail, etc. etc. This is clearly part of the Mobile access server's functionality, so I figured I need it to have a replica of the OD users and groups. Great. Well, i have all the ports working, etc., so this is not a connectivity issue. However, I want to use SSL to bind the replica to the master. I have purchased and installed a wildcard cert on both servers (the same one on both, again, clearly allowed per the MAS documentation). However, they do not bind to each other.

What I am missing? Is the MAS even supposed to be an OD player at all? I figured it had to be, but maybe not. How would it do its "access" role if it doesn't know users/groups. I'm confused.

Anyone out there using the Mobile Access setup and can help guide me? I really wanna get this to work, but Apple's own MAS documentation is severely lacking.

Thanks for the help!
 
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