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Note, however, that changing the server's IP address(es) and/or domain name after setup can screw up the domain royally if you don't know what you're doing.Īpple has done their best to simplify this (i.e. I always recommend having only one interface and IP address configured during OD setup, then adding the other IP(s) later. If the server has multiple IP addresses (as seems to be the case for you, since both the Wi-Fi and Ethernet ports are configured), things get.The server offers 3 types of domain name during setup: a name ending in ".local", which will only be resolvable by other Macs on the local network a name ending in ".private" which can be configured in a private DNS server (possibly the OS X server itself) and resolved by any computer using that DNS server and a real registered ("Internet") name which can be resolved from anywhere on the Internet (note that the OS X server doesn't handle registering the domain for you, you need to take care of that first).If it can't do this during initial setup, it'll configure its own DNS server and make entries for itself so it can look itself up. The server always wants to be able to look up its domain name in DNS and get back its address, and also look up its IP address and get back its domain name. The most common thing that goes wrong with OD setup is the network configuration, and especially DNS.Depending on what version of OS X Server you're using, this can be viewed in either Server Admin -> Open Directory -> Logs, or Server.app -> Logs -> Open Directory, under a name like Configuration Logs.
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You are probably right that the problem is due to your network setup, but I can't really make specific recommendations without knowing more about how you want the networks to be set up and how you hope to be able to use the server (and from which network(s)).