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Feb 26, 2013 10:31 AM in response to Jan Cby jepping,Hi Janette,
That setup shouldn't be a problem, reboots might even be faster and when you setup restorepoints and backups it might work out ok.
You should attempt to clone the parallels drive to an image on an external hard drive and restore that image onto the macmini. That way you get a stable OS, with all the correct settings.
Just factor in some downtime, probably a day to be safe.
Goodluck
Jeffrey
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Feb 26, 2013 11:48 AM in response to jeppingby Jan C,I shall think very seriously about your advice, Jeffrey! Thanks for taking the time to do some thing too!!
Janette
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Apr 5, 2013 8:36 AM in response to dreilandby SgtBeano,As well as deleting
/Applications/Server.app
and
/var/db/.ServerSetupDone
you should also remove or move the following .plists from your library.
The easist way is to navigate to /Library and then search for 'server'. The ones you'll want to get rid of are;
com.apple.servermgr_accounts.plist
com.apple.servermgr_info.plist
com.apple.servermgrd.plist
Then you can either copy Server.app back out of the trash or redownload it depending on your previous steps. The only persistent settings will be your file shares, as these get handed to the standard Sharing prefpane.
Hope this helps.
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Apr 19, 2013 9:12 PM in response to Mark23by sbeeker,I think you may have answered this but am not positive. I had an older version of Server (10.6) I think. I had impression that if I downloaded the Mountain Lion and OS X server apps (each $20 or so) I would be able to install Mountain Lion and then add the OS X Server. I did this. Now I can no longer see my first drive and I have queston marks for items like server admin, server preferences, etc. Kind of perplexed.
So I see several folks talking about various issues and I am hesitant to try too much here. I have a recent back up on my Time Capsule. To be honest not sure where the two apps go installed to
I have the server in order to learn how the mac servers work. So I guess not proficient enought to understand what all I screwed up on.
I saw a couple blurbs about how to upgrade but I thought I did what they said. Installed Mountain Lion and Then OS X server.
So any advice anybody can offer appreciated.
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Aug 6, 2013 6:17 AM in response to sbeekerby Johann Beda,sbeeker wrote:
I think you may have answered this but am not positive. I had an older version of Server (10.6) I think. I had impression that if I downloaded the Mountain Lion and OS X server apps (each $20 or so) I would be able to install Mountain Lion and then add the OS X Server. I did this. Now I can no longer see my first drive and I have queston marks for items like server admin, server preferences, etc. Kind of perplexed.
All the 10.6 server administration software does not work with 10.8. The only Apple software to administer a 10.8 server is the "Server.app" program, and the 10.8 Workgroup Manager available here: http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1567
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Sep 17, 2013 8:37 AM in response to dreilandby bigkstyle,OK so I was able to fix this isssue without reinstalling OSX.
First I deleted Server.app and everything else I could find relating to the OSX server in /var and /Library. After reinstalling a clean copy from the App Store I still received the error you have mentioned.
Here's the fix. I edited the file following file:/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist
And removed the following:
<key>com.apple.serverd</key>
<dict>
<key>Disabled</key>
<false/>
</dict>
Now I was able to get past this step and reinstall a clean OSX server. It still had some of my old DNS and DHCP settings, but you can easily clean those out.
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Sep 17, 2013 12:25 PM in response to bigkstyleby Jan C,That has to be the single, most important bit of advice I've received! While the element in my overrides.plist file had 'True' for 'Disabled', deleting the element and attempting to install the Server (without redownloading the app) had a successful outcome!!
I can now synchronise the new Server with the one that is running within Parallels Desktop (on the same Mac Mini!) and, later, permit the new one to take over all tasks. Thanks
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Sep 21, 2013 7:17 AM in response to bigkstyleby sebasong,great! removing those lines work for me. Thanks BigKstyle.
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Oct 10, 2013 4:51 AM in response to drenessby moritzz,This solved my issues with an update to Server.app.
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Jul 2, 2014 7:21 AM in response to bigkstyleby qurt,You're a hero.
How on earth did you figure this out?