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Chapter 16 Working with QuickTime Streaming Server 275
Preparing Older Home Folders for User Streaming
If you want to enable QTSS home folder streaming for home folders created using an
earlier version of Mac OS X Server (before version 10.3), you need to set up the
necessary streaming media folder in each user’s home folder. You can use the
createuserstreamingdir tool to set up the needed Sites/Streaming/ folder.
To set up Sites/Streaming/ in older home folders:
$ createuserstreamingdir
user
Configuring Streaming Security
A certain level of security is inherent in real-time streaming, since content is delivered
only as the client needs it and no files remain afterward. But other security issues
usually need to be addressed. Aspects of streaming security covered in this section
include:
 Setting up password protection for content
 Configuring qtaccess to limit access to the media folder
Resetting the Streaming Server Admin User Name and Password
If you forget the Streaming Server Admin user name and password, you can reset them.
To reset the user name and password:
1 Log in to the server computer as root, open a Terminal window, and enter the
following:
$ qtpasswd
someUserName
where someUserName is a name of your choice.
2 Follow the prompts by entering the administrator user name and a password you want
to assign to the user someUserName.
3 Using a text editor, modify the /Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Config/qtgroups file.
For Windows, modify the c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\qtgroups file.
For other supported platforms, modify the /etc/streaming/qtgroups file. Modify the
file so that the user name you just created or modified is included in the group Admin,
as follows:
admin: someUserName
4 Save the file as ordinary text (not as .rtf or any other file format).
Parameter Description
user
The user in whose home folder the Sites/Streaming/ folder is
created.