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

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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.

iMac 27", Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Aug 8, 2011 2:38 PM

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Answer 1

Aug 8, 2011 2:50 PM in response to LK Mike

Wont disabling all services do the job?

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Answer 2

Aug 8, 2011 5:43 PM in response to LK Mike

Delete the Server folder in your Applications folder.

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Aug 9, 2011 2:23 AM in response to LK Mike

I don't believe that either of these suggestions will work. The server version has alterations to DNS as well as (apparently) to the way network routing works. As a case in point, domain-specific DNS resolution for IPsec with IPsecuritas works fine in Lion, but doesn't work at all in Lion Server. The tunnel interface is present, but traffic does not appear to flow down it. Hrm...could be a firewall issue, now that I think of it.

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jbjoret

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Aug 9, 2011 2:29 AM in response to LK Mike

There is a technote about this on the Apple website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4827 but it does not become a workstation though. I have the Mini Server 2011 and if it were not for some software that refuse to install because I have a server, I would not make any difference.

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Aug 9, 2011 2:49 AM in response to jbjoret

Ach! I wish I'd seen your response 20 minutes ago. I'm currently restoring a machine from backup to take it to its pre-server state. Thank Jobs for Time Machine!

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Aug 9, 2011 4:52 PM in response to LK Mike

Please see my response to a very similar question here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3190174?answerId=15891466022#15891466022

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iannakin

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May 25, 2012 6:04 AM in response to Chris BeHanna

@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.

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