I'm trying to setup Kerberos, but it wants a FQDN (fully qualified domain name) such as www.example.com which confuses me since I thought www. Meant 'World Wide Web' as in an external web address visible to public users? Is there a special form of FQDN for intranets?

Does the 192.168.x.x address qualify as a FQDN? If not, how can I set up a FQDN that is not world viewable, but is available to the system and internal users? All I want to do is to set up my PowerMac G5 OS X server to run an intranet, fileserve, and authenticate users and allocate correct permissions to them.

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So far I can't even set the darn thing up! Not a single thing I have read explains anything, it just describes the process eg 'once you have chosen x, y or z click save and then move to the next screen' rather than 'you need to choose x to do this, y to do that, or z to do the other. The reason for choosing x would be so you can do x_this; for y y_that, and for z, z_the other. In the case of y, you will also need to setup this by going to the abc screen.' I don't know how people ever begin to learn how to do any of this stuff as seemingly every reference already assumes you know what you are doing and that all you need is a key guide to where things are, not a guide to learning itself. Any books that assume you are a novice assume you want to set up a home network, usually wireless.

Setting the hostname: FQDN or short name? Setup prompts you to supply a host name for this computer, either as a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN). What is missing is a look at '/etc/hosts', which in my humble opinion should be kept the hell out of all of this in the first place. For example, host has FQDN aa-w2k12sv-storage.something.com and NetBIOS name aa-w2k12sv-stor (an easy case, I usually change NetBIOS name) the hostname utility returns dnshostname, i.e., the first part of FQDN and code. I've noticed when Spiceworks discovers a Mac during a scan it uses the Mac's NetBIOS name. Does anyone know how Spiceworks is able to get that info and use it as the name? I'd like to be able to query all of our Macs using a UNIX command that would return the NetBIOS name. I wish I knew what changed to start this DNS behavior, but more, what I need to look at in order to get the server to connect to other computers other than requiring the FQDN be entered. Thanks for any input that can be given.

Has no author ever heard of small 5 man businesses running server based TCP/IP networks? Please, HELP!!! First of all, take a look at the example in the server manual, Getting Started, Page 149 I believe. It should walk you through the steps one two three for getting DHCP, DNS, NAT, and some preliminary firewall settings. The gateway assistant does most of the work. HOWEVER, I also am stumped the the FQDN. If you search on FQDN Kerberos, you'll find a way around the FQDN issue for.local. Word 2016 for mac keyboard shortcut for accept this change.

I can't find it right now, but it's in there and not very far down. What is stumping me is when and whether an FQDN is needed. Our friend DaddyPaycheck and I have been in a lot of contact right now and he seems to have everything running for his webserver w/o even having an FQDN. So I'm not exactly sure what it's purpose is. I thought you had to have it to set up websites, run Kerberos etc., but i find this is not true. If someone responds here, I'd like to get an overview.

I can't find much on the FQDN. I know exactly what mine should be, but don't quite know if and how to implement it. Right now I am hosted on the ISP but ultimately I want to have my email and webpage pulled over here. Thanks in advance.

Take a look at www.afp548.com, they have lots of info for folks at your level. I'm trying to setup Kerberos, but it wants a FQDN (fully qualified domain name) such as www.example.com which confuses me since I thought www. Meant 'World Wide Web' as in an external web address visible to public users? The text of the dns name really is more convention than anything else.