Re: Server Mailing list? (LuKreme)

I've heard several reports that echo what both Jesse and Ashley have said . . .I guess the main idea is that SL Server and Lion Server are different cats (in more ways than one:-) and you need to make sure that whichever you use does whatever you need it to do.

I would tend to agree with Ashley's recommendation not to try upgrading from SLS to LS . . .but then I was a systems administrator by trade for the last 20 years before I recently  retired . . .and I would _never_ upgrade a server OS. They're always installed, patched, secured, and configured from scratch although I will export/import config files to make things easier/quicker. I still haven't decided whether to use Lion server or not . . .I guess I could splurge and spend the 50 bucks and test it to find out . . .but think I'll download the docs and check out all the goodies first . . .what I primarily want are portable home directories and a better permissions model for shared folders. I'm currently using regular Lion as a home file server and there are issues with permissions if say I save a file and then my wife needs to modify it. I've worked a round this by using a common service account to mount the shared data volume on both of our laptops but that solution is less than elegant so it's irritating.


On Nov 3, 2011, at 9:41 AM,11/3, Jesse Tayler wrote:

> Just as a note, I haven't had any issues and am fine with Lion server.
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> On Nov 2, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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).  


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