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Ftp. Mail_Servers. Web_Servers. HowTo: Make Ubuntu A Perfect Mac File Server And Time Machine Volume [Update6] Kremalicious. For quite some time I use my Ubuntu machine as a file and backup server for all Macs in my network which is perfectly accessible from the Finder in Mac OS X.

There are some instructions available in the web for this task but all failed in my case so I wrote my own tutorial with all the steps needed for it to work properly. So here’s my little Tutorial for connecting Mac OS X Leopard with Ubuntu and using your Ubuntu machine as a backup volume for Time Machine but all steps can be reproduced on every Linux box and they work with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger too. At the end of this tutorial you will have a server which shows up in the Finder sidebar and behaves just like a Mac server when accessing it from your Macs.

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10. Version 1.0 Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com> Last edited 10/30/2008 This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.

I will use the following software: Web Server: Apache 2.2 with PHP 5.2.6, Python, and Ruby Database Server: MySQL 5.0 Mail Server: Postfix DNS Server: BIND9 FTP Server: proftpd POP3/IMAP: I will use Maildir format and therefore install Courier-POP3/Courier-IMAP. Ubuntu Administrator.