On 27-Jun-2011, at 16:32, Jerry LeVan wrote: > If I upgrade my OSX Snow Leopard client to Lion, will I be able to then > upgrade to Lion Server for about ~$50.00 ?
That appears to be the case. > My home network contains 5 computers, iPad, iPhone, IP Camera, > ATV2, and a WDTV Live. One advantage to having Server on a LAN is that it can act as the TimeMachine for all the other computers very easily and basically automatically. The "Easy administration" is another advantage though, to be honest, I didn't find it all that easy. On the other hand, I didn't read through the many MANY pdfs on OS X Server either. I needed a simple "I want to do this, here's the settings" sort of document which doesn't seem to exist. You can, in theory, setup portable home directories and use your server as an LDAP server so that you have a single login that is good on all the machines for a single home folder. Also, Lion introduces something akin to Terminal Services, allowing you to login to a GUI desktop on a machine via screensharing without actually sharing the screen. Not sure if that is part of Lion or part of Lion Server though. With Lion it appears that the iPad and iPhone will be able to sync wirelessly, though this might be coming to a Snow Leopard version of iTunes as well. One caveat if you run a mixed environment is that 10.7 no longer uses SAMBA due to it moving to GPLv3 so that Lion is running a new SMB daemon. I'm guessing there will be growing-pains with SMB shares, especially if you aren't running Windows 7. -- Monique: He keeps putting his testicles all over me. Lane: Excuse me? _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
