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How to: Back Up Your OS X Lion Apple Mac to Windows Home Server

By Terry Walsh on October 21, 2011 in Apple Mac, How to Guides, Mac OS X, News, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server 2011

As many users know, Mac OS X Lion will no longer backup to a Windows (SMB/CIFS) shared folder when using Time Machine. Only HFS+J formatted USB drives and AFP shares will work. Luckily, an open source package exists that provides support for AFP and Bonjour on Windows Home Server, called Netatalk. Though it was originally developed for Unix systems, it is possible to load a very small Linux virtual machine (<384MB of space) which will host Netatalk, and be configured to run at startup like a service. Follow this guide and you’ll be able to backup your Mac once again to Windows Home Server.

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Using OS X Lion Server as a Home Server (Part 8 – Profile Manager and Apple Macs)

By Terry Walsh on September 7, 2011 in Apple Mac, Hardware, How to Guides, Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, News

In this part of the series, we’re going to walk through Apple’s Profile Manager – a powerful configuration tool that allows remote configuration of a vast array of client features and settings. We’ll walk through how to register your Apple computers with Profile Manager and how those machines (and indeed, the user accounts running on them) can be configured to provide a personalised, tailored experience for your users. Need to rock some parental controls for the kids? On all of the Macs in the house? At once? Profile Manager is your friend.

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How to: Create a Mac Mini Media Center (Part 3 – Installing Windows 7)

By Terry Walsh on October 27, 2010 in How to Guides, Mac OS X, Media Streaming, News, Windows

If you’ve been following our How to series on transforming the new Mac Mini into a kick ass Windows Media Center PC, then you’ll know that in Part 1 we installed and configured Mac OSX and installed 500 MB of updates for Snow Leopard, and in Part 2 we prepared the Mac’s hard drive for the installation for Windows 7, courtesy of Boot Camp Assistant.

If Parts 1 & 2 are complete, we must be at Part 3 and that means that our Mac Mini is waiting, arms outstretched, to receive Windows 7.

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How to: Create a Mac Mini Media Center (Part 2 – Boot Camp)

By Terry Walsh on October 26, 2010 in How to Guides, Mac OS X, Media Streaming, News, Windows

In the second part of our guide to transforming the new Mac Mini into a great Windows Media Center PC, we take a look at Mac OSX’s Boot Camp Assistant and repartitioning the Mac Mini’s hard drive to accommodate Windows 7.

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How to: Create a Mac Mini Media Center (Part 1)

By Terry Walsh on October 25, 2010 in How to Guides, Mac OS X, Media Streaming, News, Windows

There’s a saying that goes, “If you want a PC… get a Mac”. We’re putting the theory to the test over the next few weeks with a series of walkthroughs to transform Apple’s latest Mac Mini into a kick ass Media Center PC. In the first part of the series, we get the Mac set up and prepared to run Windows 7.

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Play Your Music, Video and Photos Remotely On PC, Mac, iPhone and Android With HomePipe

By Terry Walsh on August 31, 2010 in Cloud Services, How to Guides, iPhone, Mac OS X, Media Streaming, News, Windows, Windows Home Server v1

Today, in our next Summer of Home Server project, we’re going to take a look at a brand new service called HomePipe, which allows the streaming of music, movies and photos from a PC, Mac or Windows Home Server over to a mobile device.

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