Host your own .Mac Server

[errandwolfe]

I have been scouring the web trying to find a way to setup a .Mac server on my home mac. Mainly just to use the iSync functionality (need it for Quicken, other sync programs won't work). I found a lot of info on how to do it off FreeBSD or Linux, but nothing about actually hosting it on an OS X box. If anyone has seen any good tutorials out there, could you please post a link.

 

Thanks.

[sandwer]

I have been scouring the web trying to find a way to setup a .Mac server on my home mac. Mainly just to use the iSync functionality (need it for Quicken, other sync programs won't work). I found a lot of info on how to do it off FreeBSD or Linux, but nothing about actually hosting it on an OS X box. If anyone has seen any good tutorials out there, could you please post a link.

 

Thanks.

 

Great minds etc. I have just done this on a linux box...its a lot of fun.

 

http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/mac/tips/idisk/idisk-v2.shtml

 

The process is os-agnostic, but if you are doing it on macos x you *may* have to upgrade apache to v2. I did it in a native v2 environment, 1.3 may work. Anyway, hope the link helps....

//R

[errandwolfe]

Very nice looking tutorial, I just wish I had an extra box to install FreeBSD or Linux onto. I followed a very similair guide yesterday to try and get it working on my Mac but no such luck. It amazes me that the Mac doesn't have the needed parts to create a .Mac server. I wonder if it was laziness or greed or just an oversight that stopped Apple from putting them in.