10.4 Tiger Unlimited - Upgrade to - Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 10-Client License

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10.4 Tiger Unlimited - Upgrade to - Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 10-Client License

Can I just upgrade my current 10.4 Tiger Server Unlimited to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server 10-Client License?

I have many email lists, and websites on m current server, but I only have six clients that are named.

What would I have to watch out for?
The only modifications were to change SpamAssasin so that the settings could be easily upgraded.

Is there something that could return my 10.4 server to it's standard state, and then, just upgrade?

Could I just reinstall 10.4, then upgrade all the 10.4 steps to 10.4.10, then upgrade to 10.5?

Aluminum PowerBook and Dual 1.8 G5 and X Server, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Oct 30, 2007 9:39 AM

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Answer 1

pterobyte

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Oct 30, 2007 9:58 AM in response to Jack Foster Mancilla

There are two aspects here. Technical and License. If you have only 6 concurrent file sharing users, then the 10-client license will work fine.

Not knowing what modifications you may have made it is hard to tell. Personally I prefer to setup servers from scratch between major version changes.

What services are you running on your server?

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Answer 2

Oct 30, 2007 11:12 AM in response to pterobyte

+There are two aspects here. Technical and License. If you have only 6 concurrent file sharing users, then the 10-client license will work fine.+

I have only six concurrent users. I was just concerned about upgrading from one to the other.

+Not knowing what modifications you may have made it is hard to tell. Personally I prefer to setup servers from scratch between major version changes.+

I am sorry. The only modification was to shift from ClamAV to FreshClam.

+What services are you running on your server?+

The services I have running are;
AFP
Mail
Print
Web

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Answer 3

pterobyte

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Oct 30, 2007 12:03 PM in response to Jack Foster Mancilla

Freshclam is part of ClamAV. Maybe you mean you are using clamd instead of clamscan?

If this is the only modification you made, you are probably safe updating. Make sure you have a backup/clone to fall back to if things should go awry (this doesn't mean I have changed my mind about clean installs for major version changes). 😉

That said, if you intend to only run those services, I don't really see a point in updating. But, that's a whole different discussion I guess.

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Answer 4

Oct 30, 2007 12:35 PM in response to pterobyte

I want to add some services, WIKI for one. ...

Thanx for the help.

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Answer 5

jvsteele

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Oct 31, 2007 7:56 AM in response to Jack Foster Mancilla

I just completed an upgrade from Tiger Unlimited to the Leopard 10 Client. There were no upgrade issues related to the license.

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Answer 6

Brentk

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Nov 5, 2007 8:52 AM in response to jvsteele

Were there other upgrade issues?

I've seen reports of user accounts and mail stores not being migrated during upgrade. Did this happen to you?

Thanks for trail-blazing 🙂

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Answer 7

Nov 5, 2007 9:12 AM in response to Brentk

I do not know completely. ... I accepted the statement that there were no problems, and am going to upgrade my Mac OS X 10.4 Unlimited Server in the next couple weeks, using only 6 clients, but with 50 email lists, to Mac OS X 10.5 (10 Client) server, with my 6 clients and 50 email lists.

I am still really waiting til some problems surface, because my email lists are very important to me.

Jack

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Answer 8

Nov 6, 2007 7:17 AM in response to jvsteele

How long did the upgrade take? 45 min to an hour? And where there any apache/httpd issues?

In the Leopard Client, apache is upgraded to version 2, so all the old conf files are ignored.

Thanks!

Regards,

Willy T. Koch
Oslo, Norway

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