Migrate existing snow leopard server to unlimited licenses

Bought an unlimited client license os x server s/w to upgrade an existing 10 license os x server that is patched to 10.6.5.
Do I need to re-install or can I just enter the new serial number somewhere?
Thanks!

If you are asking whether Mac OS X Server is separately packaged and separately installed from Mac OS X, yes. That's correct.
You can generally load Mac OS X Server onto a Mac OS X client system to convert the box (make a backup first), though it's usually best to start with a clean install, and load in what you're interested in (usually the user directories), as this gets the new environment and the ownerships established without regard to the existing configuration.
The [Mac OS X Server documentation|http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/resources/documentation.html] includes installation-related materials.
The expected configuration order: get the IP network going, then make absolutely and completely certain DNS is correct (do not skip this!), then get Open Directory going, then Kerberos, then get the rest of the show going as and if needed.

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Complications migrating from Snow Leopard Server to Mountain Lion Server.

I'm migrating from Snow Leopard Server to Mountain Lion Server. The article "OS X Server: Upgrade and migration" (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5381) says
"Make sure that any DNS or DHCP servers on which your server depends remain running during the upgrade"
This advice is reinforced by the details of the article "OS X Server: Steps to take before upgrading or migrating the Open Directory database" (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5300).
As the server I'm migrating from provides these services it will need to be running during the migration process. This would seem to limit my options to doing the migration from a Time Machine backup (or, making a seperate clone of the server's drive and connecting it externally to the new box)
My main concern is the seemingly inevitable clash that is going to occur on the network as the new server takes on the roles of the old one - while it is still running.
What are my options here ?
This is my second attempt as on my first try I did the migration from the TM backup with the network down - and none of my local network users or their home directories were migrated, although the settings for the mount points were, but there were no actual directories where they pointed to!
Clear directions on how to procede would be VERY MUCH appreciated
Thank you.

Moving from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion means first installing the client (non-Server) version of Mountain Lion and then install Server.app this means that for at least part of the process you will not be running DNS, DHCP or Open Directory.
If you are going to end up using the same DNS name and IP address after the change then an approach you could follow would be as follows.
Destroy any Open Directory replicas
Archive your Open Directory Master (to make a backup)
Note down your DNS records in case they get messed up
Export via Workgroup Manager your users, and groups (you might not need this but better safe than sorry), make sure you do not include the diradmin account
Keep a full back of the server (you should always have backups)
Note down your DHCP server settings in case they get messed up
Note down any other service settings
Install Mountain Lion
Install Server.app
Install Workgroup Manager (extra free download)
Run Server.app
Make sure settings for services are as much as possible the same as before
If your lucky that may be all you need to do, otherwise...
Restore Open Directory archive, if your lucky that will be all you need to do, otherwise...
Make new Open Directory Master
Run Workgroup Manager
Import users and groups you previously exported
You will then have to set passwords for each user as these are not preserved via Workgroup Manager export
When I did this, I was also being forced to change all my IP addresses so I had no choice but to use Workgroup Manager to export and import accounts.

Please help, after migrating to snow leopard Server my VPN is not working

Hi,
After migrated to Snow Leopard Server, my VPN settings are not working, My users not able to connect to VPN.
Please find below log. Please let me know the solution for it.
2010-01-05 13:19:32 IST Incoming call... Address given to client = 192.168.1.72
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : Directory Services Authentication plugin initialized
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : Directory Services Authorization plugin initialized
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : PPTP incoming call in progress from '95.222.205.164'...
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : PPTP connection established.
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : using link 0
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : Using interface ppp0
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : Connect: ppp0 <--> socket[34:17]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:33 2010 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x2794ebf2> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:34 2010 : rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x29205274> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:34 2010 : lcp_reqci: returning CONFACK.
Tue Jan 5 13:19:34 2010 : sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x29205274> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:36 2010 : sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x2794ebf2> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:36 2010 : rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0x2794ebf2> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:36 2010 : sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x2794ebf2]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:36 2010 : sent [CHAP Challenge id=0x8d <620015595e4967664c1310241b4b3254>, name = "nova.thecoverstory.com"]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:36 2010 : rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x29205274]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:36 2010 : sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x2794ebf2]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:36 2010 : rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x29205274]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:39 2010 : sent [CHAP Challenge id=0x8d <620015595e4967664c1310241b4b3254>, name = "nova.thecoverstory.com"]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : rcvd [CHAP Response id=0x8d <c68742dc9457be5a61e444f00f53371d000000000000000044c6f89fa49ed8bf4c17a2861a2cfd 04ae1e6b9199527f9f00>, name = "jenny"]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : DSAuth plugin: Error -25300 while retrieving key agent password from the system keychain.
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : DSAuth plugin: Could not retrieve key agent account information.
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : sent [CHAP Success id=0x8d "S=B503F226B4DE4105A4711C0EA2E7C21B1A9A935D M=Access granted"]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : CHAP peer authentication succeeded for jenny
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : DSAccessControl plugin: User 'jenny' authorized for access
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : MPPE required, but keys are not available. Possible plugin problem?
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "MPPE required but not available"]
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : Connection terminated.
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : Connect time 0.2 minutes.
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : Sent 0 bytes, received 0 bytes.
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : PPTP disconnecting...
Tue Jan 5 13:19:40 2010 : PPTP disconnected
2010-01-05 13:19:40 IST --> Client with address = 192.168.1.72 has hungup
Thanks,
Gulab Pasha

Great !! save my trouble too
thanks a lot for the tip.

Please help, After mac 10.5.8 mail server migrated to snow leopard server?

Hi,
All my old emails date has changed to the date on which i migrated to snow leopard server, all the old emails show as they arrived on 31st of Dec 2009.
How do I fix it. Very Very important to me to have the arrived date.
Please help
Thanks,
Gulab Pasha

here is a link of other users having wrong date problems after upgrading to 10.6
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2134525
Some people have managed to fix their date problems. The easiest workaround is to add the column "Date Sent" under (View->Columns->Date Sent) in mail.app and to sort by the send date not the received date.
Hope this helps

Problem connecting with VPN after migrated to SNOW LEOPARD SERVER,

Hi,
I recently migrated to Snow Leopard server, I have a strange issue when connecting to the VPN Server.
Please find the below error.
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : CHAP peer authentication succeeded for jasmine
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : DSAccessControl plugin: User 'jasmine' authorized for access
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : MPPE required, but keys are not available. Possible plugin problem?
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : sent LCP TermReq id=0x2 \"MPPE required but not available\"
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : Connection terminated.
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : Connect time 0.0 minutes.
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : Sent 0 bytes, received 0 bytes.
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : PPTP disconnecting...
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : PPTP disconnected
2010-01-01 14:38:22 IST --> Client with address = 192.168.1.76 has hungup
Please let me know what is the cause and how can i fix it.
Thanks,
Gulab Pasha

Did you turn on the Printer Sharing in the "Share" preferences panel?
And, for Windows computers to access your printer, they need to install "Bonjour for Windows", which is a part of the iTunes+Quicktime install package, I believe.
Alternatively, you can turn on SMB sharing on your Mac, which is also in the "Share" preferences panel. You first highlight and turn on "File Sharing", then there is an "Options..." button to the right, clicke it and check the checkbox of "Share files and folder via SMB (Windows)".

Migrating from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion Server

Hi all. I kinda drop in and out of this forum, mostly when I've got a puzzler that I can't figure out. My journey from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion was a little slow. I tried to make the transition from Snow Leopard to Lion and failed, but this time I made it and I thought I'd share a little scratchpad post I wrote to document what I did. Mostly this is about adding back a few things that I really need. Here's the list of stuff that I added back:
Firewall management (IceFloor)
MySQL
Webmail, email filtering rules and email aliases (RoundCube)
"Group" emails (short, multi-recipient email exploders)
Mailing lists (Mailman)
I also dramatically improved reliability by adding a lot of memory, and doing nightly-restarts of the machine.
Here's a link to the post
http://www.haven2.com/index.php/archives/migrating-from-snow-leopard-server-to-o sx-server-mountain-lion
I'm happy to report that the new server has been running for a month or so and all seems fine. Whew. A long journey. Thanks to all of you who posted things that helped me along the way. Hopefully this will return the favor.

Moving from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion means first installing the client (non-Server) version of Mountain Lion and then install Server.app this means that for at least part of the process you will not be running DNS, DHCP or Open Directory.
If you are going to end up using the same DNS name and IP address after the change then an approach you could follow would be as follows.
Destroy any Open Directory replicas
Archive your Open Directory Master (to make a backup)
Note down your DNS records in case they get messed up
Export via Workgroup Manager your users, and groups (you might not need this but better safe than sorry), make sure you do not include the diradmin account
Keep a full back of the server (you should always have backups)
Note down your DHCP server settings in case they get messed up
Note down any other service settings
Install Mountain Lion
Install Server.app
Install Workgroup Manager (extra free download)
Run Server.app
Make sure settings for services are as much as possible the same as before
If your lucky that may be all you need to do, otherwise...
Restore Open Directory archive, if your lucky that will be all you need to do, otherwise...
Make new Open Directory Master
Run Workgroup Manager
Import users and groups you previously exported
You will then have to set passwords for each user as these are not preserved via Workgroup Manager export
When I did this, I was also being forced to change all my IP addresses so I had no choice but to use Workgroup Manager to export and import accounts.

Downgrade from Snow Leopard Server to SL (non-server)

Is that possible to downgrade from SL Server to SL without making a clean install ?
I've just bought a standard version of Lion and I can't install it...
Thanks

Hi
You can't install Lion Server (which is simply the Server App) without installing Lion anyway. What this means is you can install 'ordinary' Lion on your existing Snow Leopard Server and provided you don't download and launch the Server App your Snow Leopard Server won't really be a Server anymore. Leastways not with any usuable 10.6 Server Administration applications (Server Admin, WorkGroup Manager etc) that you can use as these are all deleted/removed when Lion is installed.
HTH?
Tony

Snow Leopard Server to Lion Non-Server?

I have Snow Leopard Server on a MacMini. I cannot install the non-server version of Lion and must pay extra for Lion-Server upgrade. Is there a way to install Lion on my MacMini that has Snow Leopard Server installed?

Hi
You can't install Lion Server (which is simply the Server App) without installing Lion anyway. What this means is you can install 'ordinary' Lion on your existing Snow Leopard Server and provided you don't download and launch the Server App your Snow Leopard Server won't really be a Server anymore. Leastways not with any usuable 10.6 Server Administration applications (Server Admin, WorkGroup Manager etc) that you can use as these are all deleted/removed when Lion is installed.
HTH?
Tony

Problem with Connecting to VPN after migrated to snow leopard

Hi,
I recently migrated to Snow Leopard server, I have a strange issue when connecting to the VPN Server.
Please find the below error.
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : CHAP peer authentication succeeded for jasmine
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : DSAccessControl plugin: User 'jasmine' authorized for access
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : MPPE required, but keys are not available. Possible plugin problem?
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : sent LCP TermReq id=0x2 \"MPPE required but not available\"
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : Connection terminated.
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : Connect time 0.0 minutes.
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : Sent 0 bytes, received 0 bytes.
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : PPTP disconnecting...
Fri Jan 1 14:38:22 2010 : PPTP disconnected
2010-01-01 14:38:22 IST --> Client with address = 192.168.1.76 has hungup
Please let me know what is the cause and how can i fix it.
Thanks,
Gulab Pasha

More often than not when a device isn't working it is because the driver has become corrupted. Re-installing a fresh copy should help
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Update-a-driver-for-hardware-that-isnt-working-properly?SignedIn=1
http://captaindbg.com/how-to-update-drivers-on-windows-7/ (works on win 8 too)
Wanikiya and Dyami--Team Zigzag

Migration from Windows Small Business Server 2003 to Snow Leopard Server

Hello,
I'm going to migrate a Windows Small Business Server 2003 Standard to a Mac Mini Snow Leopard Server 10.6.x in a few weeks.
I have 2 questions :
Is there an official process to migrate my Exchange server datas ?
Snow Leopard Server has it Wizards to help me to muigrate datas to proper services ?
Thanx
Regards,
Gil DERENNE aka --( dB )--

Thank you for your reply
My network will be Apple only in a few time (1 server, 1 iMac and 1 Mac Pro).
Now, I want to replace server and all services installed on it :
- Active Directory (replaced by Open Directory)
- Users/Groups/machines
- NAT/Firewall and Backup (will be replaced by a Time Capsule)
- VPN for mobile access
- File and Printer sharing
- Fax Services with Fax/Modem 56K !oops! (replaced by a free service offer by my ISP)
- Mail/Calendar/Address book and notes with Exchange (replaced by each service to serv right thing : Mail, iCal, Address book...).
I know what to do with all things but not for replacing Exchange and transfer datas to each similar service in Snow Leopard.
In the network, Mail Server will be used by Outlook with IMAP protocol and other services by web interface (Windows computers are not a problem for me, it can be alone and only access web if necessary).
The number of clients inside the LAN :
- 2 iPhones
- 1 iPod Touch
- 1 PC Windows Vista (for a few time) with some VM (Linux and Windows)
- 1 iMac 27' with 1 VM (Windows)
- 1 LAN Printer HP Deskjet 6127 (RJ45 Static IP connection)
The number of clients outside the LAN :
- 3 PC Windows XP
- 2 PC Windows Vista
- 5 Nokia Smart Phones
When I'm going to by the Mac Mini Server with Snow Leopard Server, is there some support to help me to do it whith them and is it free or do I have to buy AppleCare to access to this service ?

Control CS4 Licenses with Snow Leopard server

Hi there i have a team of designers and i have to control the applications that the access and im wondering if theres a way to control the lisenses with snow leopard server application restrictions.

You can allow or deny launching an application, to individual users, groups, computers or computer groups.
You can't allow x number of copies of Photoshop or any application to run concurrently until a license limit is reached.
You would need something like Sassafras Keyserver for that.
http://www.sassafras.com/

Snow leopard server licenses are still valid if I buy one today at a dealer?

Hello,
I want to buy a license for Snow Leopard server from a dealer(new license, never use) but I want to be sure you can always enable it now that other OS are output.
(I do not want to go under Lion or Mountain Lion)
(sorry for my english)
Thank you.

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
Apple still sells Snow Leopard by phone, so you can activate Snow Leopard Server without problems

Moving accounts from Snow Leopard Macs to Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server

I got my brand spanking new Mac mini today with Snow Leopard Server! So far, we (at home) were managing our accounts on individual iMacs and a MacBook Pro. While I will be getting into the innards of account migration, management etc. I thought I'd post a quick question here; Currently I have an iMac with three user accounts on it (wife and two kids). I also have my own personal MacBook Pro with my account (the only Admin account) on it. We'll soon be getting another iMac for our daughter (who currently has an account on the existing iMac). My idea in getting the Mac mini was to move to and centrally manage all the user accounts in the household on the Mac mini server. What is the best way to accomplish this? What is the best way to move the existing accounts on to the server?
Additionally, I'll be looking into connecting the two stationary iMacs with Powerline Ethernet (where one runs Ethernet over existing electrical wires in the walls). My other option would be to rely on wireless network (I don't think this would be a good idea for if I am going to be placing the user accounts on the server and there needs to be a constant on, reliable connection between the server and the client computers as they will be talking to each other a lot!). Any thoughts on Powerline? (I am not looking forward to installing Ethernet cabling behind walls :o))
What say the wise men of Mactopia?!
Thanks,
Kenneth.
P.S. I had earlier accidentally posted this in the corresponding section of Mac OS X instead of the Mac OS X Server forum.

Ok so the esiest way to explain this is to tell you what i just went through.
I have 3 user accounts. All the accounts are network Users meaning that there home folder are kept on the server. I was having a problem with Time Machine giving me error 41 and error 11. After scratching my head for 2 days I ended up copying (Drag-n-Drop) the Home Folders to an External Hard Drive. I then proceeded to erase both of the internal hard drives on the mac mini and did a fresh local install of the Server OS.
Everything was fine at that point. Now this is where Snow Leopard stopped being nice.
I went and Created the user account again using WGM. I let WGW create the home folder and the 9 folder inside. I made sure the short names were the same and the passwords were the same as they were previously.
However, once i Copied files from the external drive to the home folders the permissions copied as well, Which i guess should be expected. So now at this point apparently the UID's of the newly created users wasn't the same as they were before the clean install. I have multiple instances of root listed in the ACL for several folders and also had several instances of System listed sporadically.
Now, This isn't to say that you can't drag n drop because now That I have it all squared away and everything is now working ok, I would probably still drag n drop the home folder off to an external disk, but only because I now know what to do to clean things up.
if you drag and drop be sure to use the CHOWN command and theCHMOD commands afterwards. Take a look at this MacFixIt article: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20013630-263.html?tag=mncol;title
If you copy your local imac users to the home directory on the server you may want to follow the steps on the URL I gave plus you will most likely also have to do the following. In a nutshell you are going to use the chmod command to strip all the ACL Permissions then you are going to use the chown command to re-specify the correct owner and the correct permissions for the network user.
!) Go into ServerAdmin and click on Sharing
2) Go to the users folder you are using and select the user you are going to work with.
3) Click on the Permissions option
4) click on the +sign at the bottom (this will open the users & groups list to the right)
5) Drag the current user from the users list to the owner permissions line under posix section
5a) Click Save
6) Click on the Gear button at the bottom
7) Check the box for Owner Name and Owner Permissions.
8) Uncheck the box for Access Control List then click ok
Once you've gone through that rigmarole you can go back into ServerAdmin and fix the permissions for public and Sites folder which should only take a minute or so.
So the moral of this story and as I found out when i ended up calling Enterprise support is that the act of dragging and dropping user home directories from one server to another, or as in your case, from a local machine to a the server isn't anything that apple recommends or supports. you might want to read through the man pages for "Ditto" or so apple tells me, but honestly now that you know, the steps above aren't all that bad. It's true Knowing IS half the battle!
have Fun!
P.S. FWIW If you run into problems and have to call Enterprise Support be prepared for them to tell you to refer to the user Guides. So reading those would be to your advantage even though they aren't the easiest things to understand unlike apple's consumer products user guides

Snow Leopard Server Software - Mac Mini Copy vs Retail Copy

Hi All,
I recently purchased a mac mini server, with what I thought would be a SL Server license.
I've used the Mac Mini to run a Leopard server whilst our Xserve was out of action.
Now the xserve is back, I was thinking of installing SL on the Xserve and keep the mini running leopard until we migrate over.
When I tried to install SL on the Xserve, it gave me an error. I rang Apple, and the enterprise guy told me this wasn't possible, as the copy that came with the mac mini was hardware specific and just a restore copy of snow leopard server. Bottom line I can't install the Mac Mini version of SL on an Xserve, even though I have paid for a SL license in buying the mac mini!
Does anybody know if there is any real differences between the hardware specific software copy and a retail version. If there isn't I'll install a copy on the mac mini and copy it over to the xserve. I just want to be sure that I'm not getting a downsized version of software!
Thanks.

There are ways to extract the OS from the restore disk so you can use in other system. you will just have to do a little online search. but I think it will be illegal if you care of course... but it would probably be easier to just download a copy from rapidshare or something like that and use your key ..
As far as feature there is none between the restore and retail copy.

Snow Leopard vs Snow Leopard Server (part 2)

How can it be determined if a machine is a Mac OS X server edition with some degree of certainty?
This is somewhat related to previous discussion titled "Snow Leopard vs Snow Leopard Server". I'm remotely logged into a machine that runs OS X 10.6.6 and acts as an office file server; yet the folder 'Server' under '/Applications' (e.g. /Applications/Server) that should contain some useful server administration tools does not exist on this machine.
Further, if this machine turns out to be a 'workstation' rather then a server, are there any licensing issues that would prevent installation of server administration tools to it (as referenced in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_XServer)?
Thanks.

If you're using Screen Sharing, then look at About This Mac in the Apple menu. You'll see either Mac OS X, or Mac OS X Server there. If you're at the shell, then one of the ways you can identify the software is with the system_profiler command, in the software section.
And no; it's expected to have the software installed on a client you're managing the server from. If you want to know details, check the fine print with the package.

Migrate existing snow leopard server to unlimited licenses

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