HT4827: How to disable Lion Server

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stefanfrombrooklyn

Q: Is this article a joke! I don't have time for jokes!!!

Does anyone know how to really uninstall this godforsaken server?

Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Jun 30, 2012 9:14 AM

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Q: Is this article a joke! I don't have time for jokes!!!

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  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang Jun 30, 2012 9:31 AM in response to stefanfrombrooklyn
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    Jun 30, 2012 9:31 AM in response to stefanfrombrooklyn

    Well, you could erase the hard drive and reinstall. What do you have on hand? Snow Leopard? Lion on a USB stick?

  • by Shootist007,

    Shootist007 Shootist007 Jun 30, 2012 9:39 AM in response to stefanfrombrooklyn
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    Jun 30, 2012 9:39 AM in response to stefanfrombrooklyn

    Not sure what you mean. that article explains is very well. Lion server is just an App. It not really another OS.

    Just delete what it tells you to and it will be gone.

  • by Linc Davis,Solvedanswer

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Jun 30, 2012 10:42 AM in response to Shootist007
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    Jun 30, 2012 10:42 AM in response to Shootist007

    The app installs several thousand files all over the system. There's no uninstaller.

  • by Trbl_Shooter,

    Trbl_Shooter Trbl_Shooter Jul 25, 2012 9:53 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    Jul 25, 2012 9:53 AM in response to Linc Davis

    It does seem a little counter intuitive that opening Server.app for the first time requests if you would llike to configure the local machine as a server and the only real options are besically "Yes" or "No" It would be great if there was another option for "Connect to a remote server" that WASN'T burried in the file menu and by a confusing dialogue box. The first time I saw this I said " Yeah! Of course I want to configure Server." and ended up installing (or rather enabling) the services on my MacBook Air. I know many people remotly administer OS X servers and with the oddball way of obtaining Apple's primary tool for server administration (drag and drop it from a copy of OS X Server) it would be great if they could give more information in that priliminary dialogue.

     

    Either way, most of OS X Server's services are already installed and many are even running, the Server.app tool just enables a level of control over those services. So as the article suggests, disabling them is the easiet way to "uninstall" or rather disable what was already there.