Just as a note, I haven't had any issues and am fine with Lion server.
On Nov 2, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
