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• Data and Technology

  Posted on March 14th, 2008

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  datagram pinwheel, firewall, mac, name service, netbios, nmb, osx, smb, smbclient, tcp, udp

  When Mac OSX SMB Connections Fail

  

  Earlier today I had a problem with some Macs that could not establish SMB connections to our Windows File Server. There was no quick error, so the problem really “felt” like a firewall issue but strangely I was able to make a CLI connection to the file server using smbclient:

  smbclient //server/share -U domain/username
  Password:*******
  Domain=[DOMAIN] OS=[Windows Server [...]

• Data and Technology

  Posted on October 2nd, 2007

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  bookmark, HowTo, link, lpr, mac, macintosh printing, osx, print server, printing, smb printing

  SMB Printing in Mac OSX

  Most Mac users simply access network printers using LPR, but occasionally, you will need to interact with networks that are unfriendly to this method and find yourself having to use SMB printing. It’s a little inconvenient, but overall pretty easy to configure. I found some great instructions here. The method varies depending on which version [...]

• Data and Technology

  Posted on October 1st, 2007

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  accounts, corrupt, database, filesystem, local.nidb, mac, NetInfo, NetInfo database, network.nidb, osx, recover, server, single user, sysadmin, unix, users

  Recovering From a Corrupt NetInfo Database on OSX.4

  

  I managed to corrupt my NetInfo database on an OS 10.4 server a few weeks ago by not cleanly unmounting the drive after booting from DVD and resetting the admin password. Long story short, this left me with no users on the system at all. With no users, I could not log in to create [...]

• Data and Technology

  Posted on June 5th, 2007

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  apple, carbon, computer, core, core duo, intel, mac, mac mini, macintosh, migration, mini, minimac, new computer, osx, ram

  Using My New Mac Mini

  My new Mac Mini came in yesterday and I just got it all up and running. I had some misgivings about allowing the system to transfer over all my applications and information from the old system, but I went ahead and did it anyhow simply because I seriously doubted I could find all the CD’s [...]

• Data and Technology

  Posted on September 22nd, 2005

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  apple, apple finder, error, file copy, finder, finder copy, HowTo, locking, mac, mac finder, mac osx, macintosh, macintosh finder, nfs, nfs locking, osx, posix, posix locking, samba, samba share, samba upgrade, smb.conf, unix, unix nfs

  Macintosh Finder Copy to Samba Share Problem

  

  With the last Samba upgrade, we started having problems copying files to our Samba share from the Mac OSX finder.When attempting the copy we received an error reading: “The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items.”
  There were no permissions issues, which was substantiated by our unhindered [...]

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