Chapter 8. Using Mobile Access Server

Time

This lesson takes approximately 60 minutes to complete.

Goals

Understand the Mobile Access service on Mac OS X Server

Learn the benefits of using Mobile Access service as compared to VPN

List the services to which the Mobile Access service provides proxy access

Use Mobile Access service to provide access to private resources

Use certificates with proxied services

Identify the client OS requirement to allow computers to access services on the private network via the Mobile Access service

Define forward and reverse proxy and compare to Mobile Access Server

Mobile Access Server (MAS) provides a secure method for sharing internal resources with external clients by enabling access to IMAP, SMTP, and HTTP ...

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