WARNING: Do NOT (try to) upgrade a Snow Leopard Server installation to Lion Server until you have read the posts on Apple's OS X Lion Server discussion list.
From what I've read there Mac OS X Lion Server is something pretty much everyone should stay away from. It's beta at best, lots of things are problematic, it just doesn't work in a lot of cases, and lots of functionality was lost from Snow Leopard server (e.g. DNS, virtual web hosts, ...) and there are many limitations (e.g. one local subnet). It seems Mac OS X Server 10.6 Snow Leopard was the last "real" server OS with Apple tools that Apple is releasing. I am planning to stay with Snow Leopard server as long as I can and then move to a Linux server. Of course, you can always install open source tools (if they don't conflict with Apple's setup) and control from the command line but that misses the point. Even the upgrade to Lion client on my laptop is affecting the administration of Snow Leopard Server on our server. The Lion OS X Server Admin tools do not work fully with Snow Leopard Server :-( The best option now is to screen share into the server and run the Snow Leopard Server Admin tools on the server itself (hopefully they will fix these issues). It seems Lion Server is a new product, should probably have a new name, and is still under development. It's morphing into some limited freaky home server offering. Cheers, Ashley. -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia Skype/iChat: MrHatken (GMT + 8hrs!) _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
