I miss a lot of Services in Lion ServerAdmin.

Question

Hallo.
How i can activate and configurate for example the services Postgre, FTP, Printing, Apache/Tomcat, SMB, StreamingServer ?
I need more than ON OFF - Buttons.
I look forward to the answers.Tahnk u
deko

Answer 1

Lion Server simply drops about half the previous functionality of the product while adding a badly designed and completely unnecessary additional administrative app.  What remains is simplified in the same sense that a lobotomy "simplified" Francis Farmer. 
"Where's DNS?"  It's gone.
"How do I support multiple domains?"  You don't.
"But I absolutely need to run multiple, differently configured websites!"  Tough luck.
I can only assume this is in keeping with Apple's decision to stop building server hardware – it's abandoned IT as a market, but believes some unspecified group of people won't mind spending a small sum to play with a strangely crippled server product.
Historically, Apple's always had trouble deciding what to do with OS X Server.  They've now  repurposed it, but for who or what I really can't guess.  It might make a cool toy for a kid interested in playing geek, but I can no more do my work with Lion Server than I can two tin cans and a string.  It's abilities aren't adequate for my home, much less my work. 
I'll continue to run OS X as a desktop OS – the alternatives are unacceptable – but for services, Linux is all that's left.  Certainly there's now no reason to spend extra money to use Macs as servers.  Without a comprehensive interface to the underlying services, a Mac server is nothing more than an overpriced Unix/Linux box. 
There's lots of powerful, reasonably priced server hardware in the world, and an enormous body of open source software to run on it.  The promise of OS X server was always that for a little extra money, one might avoid the learning curve of navigating and implementing so many dauntingly technical choices.  That's over now, and in retrospect, I'm forced to admit that X Server never really came close to its hype – the admin apps were always incomplete, finicky, and buggy, and consequently I've always ended up doing at least half my sysadmin work at the unix level. 
Whatever Apple's vision of the future, it obviously doesn't include any investment in traditional IT.  They're probably right:  sysadmins are expensive, outsourcing to the cloud appears cheap, and they'll get the Fortune 500 to drop Windows when they pry their cold dead fingers off of it, one chewed and broken nail at a time. 
But for those of us somewhere in between, it's time to pitch this tent and find a better caravan.