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Chapter 1: Lion Server: An Overview
Services removed from Server Admin but not in the Server app
The missing service people complain about most is print server and manage-
ment. The underlying CUPS printing engine is still there, but it’s no longer in
the server tools. Apple provides two ways to set up printer sharing:
✓ System Preferences: Here, you use the Print and Fax pane, as you would
share a printer connected to a user’s Mac. You’d have to use screen
sharing to do this from another Mac.
✓ The CUPS web interface: Type http://localhost:631/ in a web browser,
and you come up with the configuration page. This page gives you some
configuration options not available in System Preferences.
Neither method is completely satisfactory. For example, you no longer have
any way to set quotas for printers or users. And neither method ties in with a
directory. Nor are these features available from the command line — they’ve
been eliminated. (As an editorial comment, the removal of as basic a service
as print is a bit baffling. Apple has never provided a reasonable explanation
as to why it removed the feature from Lion Server.)
FTP file sharing is now only available by typing Unix commands. The same is
true for NFS file sharing, which used to be an alternative to AFP and SMB. NFS
is still in Lion Server because it’s used by NetBoot. You can still configure
FTP and NFS in Terminal if you know how. But for most users, FTP and NFS
file sharing is no longer an option.
More significant is the complete removal of the ability to set Mac OS X Server
to act as a Primary Domain Controller for Windows climates. This feature isn’t
available from the command line or anywhere else. What this means is that Lion
Server simply doesn’t support Windows clients as well as Mac OS X Server 10.5
and 10.6. QuickTime Streaming server has also been eliminated from Lion Server.
Still, you still can do plenty with Lion Server (enough to fill this book), includ-
ing the new features described in this chapter, such as Profile Manager for
iOS devices.
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