Managing a Snow Leopard (10.6) Server from Mountain Lion (10.8)
I just upgraded my Mac Pro from 10.6 (client) to 10.8. It's not nearly as bad as the ugprade to Lion (which I reverted after a month). But one big problem is that my Server Admin tools no longer work. Neither the 10.6 nor the 10.7 Server Admin tools will run on Lion. They're like PPC apps in the way they won't even launch. Is there any way to get these apps to run? I was reading an Apple tech doc about this, and that page implies that the only way to adminster my server is to screen share, meaning you can't user Server Admin 10.6 <-> 10.8. If course, even using screen sharing is a problem since 10.8 doesn't seem able to connect to a 10.6 Server's VPN.
This is a real pinch I'm in here. As a temporary work-around, I can run a copy of 10.6 in a virtual machine. But booting that VM every time I need to poke around in Server Admin is a TERRRRRRRRIBLE way to work.