Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> squaked out on Wed 03-Aug-2011 20:43 > Hi Sven (et al.), > > On 04/08/2011, at 12:46 AM, Sven Aluoor wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Ashley >> >> >> I found an article in InfoWorld with title "Why IT won't like Mac OS X >> Lion Server" http://www.infoworld.com/print/167787 >> The Lion Server GUI is dumbed down, but behind the scenes there are a >> lot Open Source components like PostgreSQL, Samba, OpenLDAP,.. which >> you can configure and use through CLI? > > Sure, but that was one of the big benefits of OSX - the powerful GUI on top > of the CLI. > > I suppose one day I might upgrade to Lion Server but certainly not until > everything stabilises within this transition. From what I've read it seems > like a bit of a mess - admin this from the Server app, this from Server > Admin, that from Workgroup Manager, and other things from the command line > editing .plist files.
I ran 10.6 Server and I am not running 10.7 server even though I had to jump through considerable hoops to get a 10.7 non-server install on my machine. Simply put, 10.7 servers a whole hell of a lot more trouble than it’s worth and the few simple things I wanted to use Server for were obnoxiously difficult if not impossible. Just pointing the default domain for the webserver to a folder I wanted was, as far as I could find, impossible to do. > It's a pity Apple didn't persist with the Server Preferences for simple > administration and Server Admin and Workgroup Manager for advanced > administration. I think that is the clear sign that Apple has changed their > direction significantly, hence the reference to moving out of Enterprise > server market. The new Server.app is just too dumbed down and too confusing. Just as an example, where should one setup File sharing, in the Server.app or the System Preferences.app? If the settings disagree, which takes precedence? I could find nothing on this relatively simple question and testing led to nothing but confusion. Then add to that the fact that SMB shares in Lion are severely broken for non-Windows 7 machines (like, say, freeBSD, Linux, or Windows XP) and you have a “server” that really isn’t much of a server. -- "If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect." _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
