Leopard Server’s Server Admin is NOT backwards compatible
Page 155 of Server_Administration_v10.5.pdf says “Mac OS X Server v10.4 servers can be administered using v10.5 server administration tools.”
Alas, they cannot; this means there’s no way to manage a Leopard and a Tiger system from the same box without screen sharing — something I and every other Tiger admin would like to do for the upgrade process! More generally, people who have upgraded to Leopard must use screen sharing to manage our Tiger Servers. Let’s hope Apple fixes this quickly — rather than after most of us have slogged through our own upgrades.
KMc said,
November 5, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Yeah, that’s really annoying, especially since it’s going to be at least a couple of months before I’ll be able to get all my servers upgraded to 10.5. However, I seem to be able to run both the old and new versions of Server Admin at the same time from my client desktop. I don’t have any Leopard servers up yet to test for sure, but it looks like it should be fine.
reppep said,
November 17, 2007 at 12:45 am
Fixed with 10.4.11, with which the 10.5.0 Server Admin & Workgroup Manager are backward compatible, except DNS: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301590