What kind of disadvantages lion server compared to lion

If I will install LION server version on an iMac core duo instead LION standard version. What kind of disadvantage can I obtain ?

I've installed it on my MacBook Pro and it's just like another application, it does not do anything with your computer, if I've understood right

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I have a new lion server and 4 lion laptops. The laptops loose connection to the shared documents and printers from the server after roughly 1 hour. By disconnecting and re-connecting wireless the connection is regained to shares and printers

I have a new lion server and 4 lion laptops. The laptops loose connection to the shared documents and printers from the server after roughly 1 hour. By disconnecting and re-connecting wireless the connection is regained to shares and printers. We can still surf the web when it goes down.

Ok 1st one. The warning restriction message relates to this line in main.cf:
smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated permit_mynetworks check_helo_access hash:/etc/postfix/helo_access reject_non_fqdn_hostname reject_invalid_hostname permit reject_invalid_helo_hostname
The last reject occurs after the single word "permit" and is ignored.
However, that's not the problem.
I'm not exactly sure what's happening, but this might be a clue.
It would appear that either postfix is not being able to create the socket for private/policy or it's somehow created with the wrong permissions. You might need to ramp up the debug level to get a better idea.
You could check if it's being created by "netstat -a | grep private/policy" in terminal.
My guess is that it's not being created because there is no setup statement in your master.cf file, but I don't understand why postfix would be looking for it if it isn't set up. Private/policy I think relates to grey listing. Maybe gives you a hint.

Do you have to download Lion and also lion server , or just lion server ?

Do you have to download Lion and also lion server , or just lion server ?
And also will you have all the features of snow leopard server ?

Yeah it is a bunch of apps that you will download from the App store WWDC Keynote by Phil Schiller. "Server isn’t another operating system. It’s just a bunch of applications you can purchase to run on top of Lion. " And in terms of upgrading to Lion server, i read an article that explains the process as this:
"Snow Leopard Server - You can not upgrade to Lion directly. If you try to run the Lion installer on Snow Leopard Server, it will first look for the Server.app in the “Application” folder of the Mac. When you have that in place, the installer will first install Lion. Then, when it restarts, it will walk you thru some very minimal steps for the Server.app (hostname confirmation, admin email, etc). At that point, the Server.app will take your Snow Leopard Server settings and upgrade them. This will include migrating OD to 10.7, updating LDAP, importing data, etc. This can take some time. "
That is for snow leapard server specifically. If you come from a basic snow leapard installation, that is when you updrage to Lion and then download and install the server apps.

How can I make my Lion Server into a Lion Workstation?

How can I downgrade my Mac OS X Lion Server to just a standard Mac OS X Lion machine?
I've tried everything including re-installing Lion. When re-installing Lion, it seems to automatically pickup on the fact that this is a Server OS & installs Lion Server OS.
I want to simply downgrade my Lion machine to be running the standard Lion OS instead of Lion Server.
In case you're wondering, this is on my iMac 27" which I originally upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, then from Lion to Lion Server.

@Chris BeHanna
You were right for the firewall Issue. I was also running IPSecuritas and I installed Lion Server and the traffic stopped responding on the tunnel, although it connected well.
I figured out that, for some reason, even if the ServerAdmin indicated that the server firewall (my local "new" server, my own machine) was inactive, some rules must had been set during Server.app installation.
Anyway, what I did was activate the firewall, and then, allow all traffic on every ip. You can do that in the ServerAdmin app.
And then the traffic turned back on, on the IPSecuritas tunnels.
The next step would be to be configure rules precisely, but since I am already behind a firewall, I prefer using a "transparent" setting.

Is it possible to install Lion Server over regular Lion?

I am considering buying Lion Server, so that I can get a feel for administering it (my background is in Windows Server and Warp Server for eBusiness). I have a 2010 21.5" iMac, which I upgraded to Lion a couple of weeks ago. I also have a MacBook Air with Lion.
I am wondering if I can just purchase Lion Server from the App Store and install it on my iMac, using the MBA as a client machine.
(1) Is this possible?
(2) Will I still be able to use the iMac as a regular machine, running (principally) Aperture and later on Final Cut Pro X as local programs
(3) What likely pitfalls am I going to encounter, and what (other than the client services) will I gain? I'm thinking that hosting Podcasts might be useful, but I don't know much about it
and finally,
(4) What resources are there to help me migrate my skills from Windows Server?
TIA,
Thomas

The other option is boot from your restore partition use diskutility to add third partition then use the reinstall lion option to install lion on 3rd partition, this will then download lion for you and reinstall it!
When this is done you can set it up properly (static ip etc) and then download the server app and install it!
Depending on what you want to do running it as your machine is not a big problem it works fine just keep in mind you might need to restart a few times and if you using it as a server that could be an issue!
in order to boot from your restore partition just reboot and hold down <alt>

Lion Server with mountain lion computers?

Hello,
So i am running a mac pro 1.1 with Lion server because it won't run mountain lion, I am thinking about upgrading my other computers to mountain lion are there any issues or features that aren't availible or will be problematic?
Thanks

The difference between case 1 and cases 2-4 are that in 1 the client is letting the server expand the group membership, and in 2-4 it's the client doing that expansion. The group members returned by the server when it expands the group are "guaranteed" to work because the server definitely knows about them (and providing them to the client). In the cases where it's the client adding the attendees, I suppose there must be some mismatch sometimes, although I don't know what that could be if the email addresses are the same between the users you've created via Contacts.app and the users you've created via Server.app.
I actually tried this setup and it was working fine. What caused you to want to duplicate the users and groups that you have in Server.app into Contacts.app?

Reverting from OS Lion Server to OS Lion

I run OS Lion Server on a Mac Mini, and everything is going relatively well.
I am contemplating using my current Mac Mini as a music server only and buying a new Mac Mini with Lion Server pre-installed.
If I go this route, I will want to "remove" OS X Lion Server from my current Mac Mini and "replace" it with OS X Lion.
Anybody knows how to proceed?
Regards,

Same issue with me. I am a new mac user, actually Mac Minii server is my first mac. I am not interested inthe server aspect but rather the pure Lion as I also plan to install bootcamp with windows 7. (Sorry but I am not ready for a full pc to mac migatrion). Being the only user of the mac mini does ot make sense to have the full server installed.
Please help !!! Idiot (yours trully) proof guide will be highly appreciated. Thanks

I cannot upgrade lion server to mountain lion server. i get an message that Server can't be installed on "Server HD" because Mac OS X version 10.8 or later is required.

I am trying to upgrade to mountain lion server from lion server. When i try an download the latest version of OXS from the app store, i get an message that Server can’t be installed on “my HD” because Mac OS X version 10.8 or later is required. I have lion 10.7.4 installed

OS X Server: Upgrade and Migration

Can't acces lion server with Mountain Lion

I upgraded to to Mountain Lion and now its telling me I cannot access Lion Server on this Mac? I was able to access it before the upgrade.

Did you upgrade to the Server version of Mountain Lion? If you did not that explains why you cannot access it. However if you did please repost in the correct forum which is:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/os_x_mountain_lion

Lion Server under Mountain Lion OS X

Hello,
I have upgraded to Mountain Lion, but I forgot to switch off all Lion Server services before upgrading. Now Lion Server cannot be started under Mountain Lion, and I don't want to upgrade it. Is it safe to just delete Server.app? Or maybe are service still running in the background, and I need to do something more complex?
Thanks in advance for your help
Roberto

If you don't want to upgrade to Mountain Lion Server, you're only other option is to completely erase your OS volume and reinstall Lion; then Lion Server. Or if you don't want to run Server any longer, you can just install Mountain Lion.

Can't get Mountain Lion Server Server to upgrade properly - Configuring services

Hi All,
First of all thanks for any answers or suggestions you might have. We are a small business with about 25 employees. We have been running Lion Server for email and collaboration without much issue. Today we decided to upgrade to Mountain Lion Server, which was a big mistake apparently. We downloaded and installed Mountain Lion which went fine. We then downloaded and installed the new Server app and that's where things got hairy.
The Server app got to the part where it says Configuring Services and just sat there spinning. After about an hour I figured something was up and noticed in the console that there were a bunch of errors trying to update certain things. Needless to say we had to force quit the Server app after a long while and nothing got updated/migrated. We were left with a non functional server. Luckily we had set up the Lion Server to clone to another drive and we were able to boot to that to get back to work.
None of us have much experience with command line, part of the reason we got Lion Server in the first place was it's ease of use and GUI. So has anyone else had similar issues? We are kind of at a loss as to where to go next. Thanks!

It is indeed an option to wait, although I did manage to upgrade four servers that all have working forward and reverse DNS from Lion Server to Mountain Lion 10.8.
After installing OS X Server on top of that server specific items like mailboxes returned

Password problem after migrating to Mountain Lion Server

Hello everyone,
Yesterday, I migrated our Lion Server to Mountain Lion Server. Everything seemed to work fine. Except since this morning, none of the network user cannot connect to their calendar, reminders, and wiki. They can connect to their account and to their mails. The following line appears multiple times in ApplePasswordServer.Error.log:
Aug 16 2012 16:52:50 700250us client response doesn't match what we generated
It seems that only web services are concerned (vpn, mobile accounts, and mails are working). My initial guess is that the hash computed on the basis of the user password is not computed on the same way on the client machine (which is running Mountain Lion by the way) and on the server. On the other hand, this would be very surprising, since all this stuff is based on standards and unlikely to have changed since Lion.
I tried to create a new "Test" user. Even this new user, created after the migration, cannot connect to its calendar, etc. I also tried to reset my user password using the Server App. It makes no difference, the same lines appear in the logs.
Is anyone experiencing a similar problem ? Does anyone have a clue of what to try next ?
Thanks a lot !

I found out the following:
After looking at the contents of the password server database using the slot numbers of several user accounts, it seems that all users where WEBDAV-DIGEST authentication is failing, have two entries for the digest method "*cmusaslsecretDIGEST". This is obviously wrong. All users who can authenticate successfully have only one such entry.
Deleting and recreating the user account has no effect. In fact, updating the password server with a new entry may actually trigger this error. It could be that all users where this is failing have changed their passwords after the server was updated to Mountain Lion.
It would be interesting to know if you also see duplicate entries for "*cmusaslsecretDIGEST" in the database. You can display a password server record via the user account's slot number (in your example, the 0xd6ace...) using the command
sudo mkpassdb -dump <slot-number>
At the end of the record dump, you should see 10 digest entries with their method identifiers.

I want to erase my hard drive and reinstall lion server. Can someone help me out?

i have a mac mini running lion server. I want to erase all the date and start fresh. When i try to reinstall Lion it does not show anything about lion server but jut Lion. I want to make sure I do it properly. It is also asking me in which hard drive to install Lion but im unsure.
can someone help me out?

Check in the app store under purchases both lion and server should show up there to download again.
No need to erase both drives for a clean install just the drive you are using for the OSX. Though if you are truly starting a fresh then erase and reformat both.
As for Upgrades. Yosemite is the only upgrade now available through the app store as is Server 4.0 for Yosemite. I have not tested the latest server yet and can not comment on it's reliability.
Any server you set up should be thoroughly tested on a closed network before going live.
Hope this helps.
PJRS

ICal server setup, Lion Server

Can anybody give me a brief run down on setup and syncing iCal on lion server with a lion client.
I'm having lots of trouble trying to share 5 existing calanders that used to be on a client. I have export the Calander and imported it to the server.
Every time I set up the client to read calanders on the server they can only see the default on not the 5 others that have been imported.
Thanks
Jeff

Create a new user on the Server called 'Jeff Calendar' or whatever.
Exit the Server.
Into iCal on your Admin/Client machine create a new Account. Account type is CalDAV, Username and Password are the same as the User you created on the Server… 'Jeff Calendar' or whatever, and then enter your Server's address as text or numbers:
Click creat and the rest is straight forward. Now give the set up details of that new Account to the others who want to share your 'Jeff Calendar' with you.The Clients must have, I think, Mac OS 10.6 or upwards to have an iCal that with co-operate.
You will see a new group in iCal.
If you don't already know, do not add accounts to Address Book or iCal on the Server. Everything is Admin and Client Side. In the beginning I was also adding accounts to iCal and Address on the Server. It works fine but it is just one extra thing that could become corrupted. Let the Server 'serve' the Users you create on it.

Lion Server install fail

I'm trying to install Lion Server on a Lion system.
When trying to install Lion Server the server app installer wants to download additional things.
When it tries, the Server app says ":Can't install Server Essentials because you are not connected to the Internet."
My internet is up and running - that's how I bought the Server app and made this post to the Apple Support Community.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the Server app to see this?
Thank you.

Hi Wozzar. Check out the following thread from iblueracoon. I had exactly the same issue as you and this solved my problem. All the best:
Correct Answer by iblueracoon on Jul 21, 2011 1:16 AM
Hi! I've been having this same issue and I had been busting my head about it for a couple of hours. Whenever I went to create a partition to install windows and download the support software, it would pop up that message. The same for whenever I tried running a java application. An easy fix to this would be to go into system preferences > Network, next, create a new location and delete the old one(transfer your connections ofcourse). Then, connect to your current network. Now, just go into "advanced">"Proxies" and disable auto proxy discovery! It seemed to do the trick for me

What kind of disadvantages lion server compared to lion

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