Questions tagged [mac-osx]
Mac OS X is an operating system from Apple Inc. It was the successor to Mac OS 9 and here the 'X' means 10. Mac OS X is based upon the NeXTSTEP and OpenStep OSes developed in the 1980s and 1990s by NeXT Inc., which Apple purchased in 1996.
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Unable to bind OSX 10.9 to Active Directory 2008
I am struggling to bind OSX 10.9 to a 2008 r2 Active Directory. I can join the domain fine when I boot into Windows from the same machine. From OSX I can find the domain controller successfully and ...
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how to tune NFS client on MacOS to get Linux like performance?
I have a NFS server running Linux and exporting a couple of shares. Both Linux and MacOS clients connect to the server, and while with the Linux clients I get ~ 75MB/s write speed, the MacOS clients ...
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How to re-compile iconv on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) with pseudo-charset UTF8-MAC?
I was googling around for hours to find a solution for my problem and I couldn't get it to work:
I have to rsync a file structure on an ext4 formatted drive to a hfs+ formatted drive. Folders and ...
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A single AD user can't log into a single Mac bound to the domain (DirectoryServices error). How can I resolve this?
On our campus, we have about 60 Macs joined to our Active Directory domain. Most users have no problems logging into Macs, as long as their accounts are configured correctly.
However, we have one ...
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OS X clients ignoring Windows print server permissions
I'm in the process of testing a Windows Server 2008 R2 print server for a mixed OS X/Windows environment.
Any security permissions (AD groups) I set for the printers on the print server are not ...
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list directory is slow when using NFSv4
I'm currently setting up NFS based file sharing between my Mac client (Macos 10.14.1) and Raspberry Pi3 server (U16.04.1 LTS). As I dual-boot my Mac (MacOS/Ubuntu18) I want to use my Pi with NFS (I ...
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Active Directory account lockout policy not working on Macs
I am running AD on Windows Server 2003 and made sure our account lockout policy is set to 5 attempts before an account gets locked. It works on any Windows computer running XP/Vista/7/8, but the ...
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Why does "file:///Users/username/Library/proxy.pac" not work in MacOS?
I tested setting up a proxy.pac file via a web server:
networksetup -setautoproxyurl "Wi-Fi" "http://localhost/proxy.pac"
and via a file directly:
networksetup -setautoproxyurl "Wi-Fi" "file:///...
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Imaging mac fully remote keyboard free?
How can I image a mac remotely over the network with no access to the machine (no keyboard)?
UPDATE: We may be having issues with the reboot process after selecting a network boot disk, see edit ...
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Running Gitlab CI runner with Docker on OS X as service
I have a Mac Pro 2012 (OS X 10.11) which I'm using as a server, set up with Docker for OS X and the official gitlab CI runner installed according to https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/osx.html.
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strongSwan 4.5.2 with iOS and Mavericks, Connection Troubles
I am having trouble configuring strongSwan 4.5.2 to work with iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks. I have followed these two guides, but am still encountering problems.
http://teebeenator.blogspot.com/2013/06/...
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What ports need to be open for Calendar and Contacts services to facilitate calendar resources on Mac OSX Server 10.8
We use Mac OSX 10.8 with Server 2.2.1.
When creating a calendar appointment on a client connected to the OSX server from within our local network (behind our firewall) we can select calendar ...
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Samba4 share: Windows can read/write, OS X can only read
In the last few days I've played around with Samba4. I've created a new domain, some shares and everything works well. At least when I'm working with windows. We have some OSX clients an I'm testing ...
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OSX Server - How to set environment variable on network user login
I have a group of users on my server, "Developers", and I would like an environment variable to be set for them whenever they login.
More specifically, when anyone in this group logs in, I would ...
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Macs behind a proxy, using squid for SSL and HTTP traffic
There appears to be an NTLM bug in OSX in how authentication is handled with our corporate proxy. On several Macs (and iDevices) Safari, iTunes, Software Updates, AppStore etc all crash when they ...
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Cant connect to VPN via L2TP/IPsec on mac, but connection on windows works
I've setup connection on one of our mac computers running MacOS 10.13.6 High Sierra. I've entered user, password, preshared key ect. but I Cant connect to VPN (getting VPN server did not respond error)...
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Dnsmasq unable to resolve local host
I'm unable to get my local DNS server to work and totally stumped. Here's what I have done so far to make it work...
Dnsmasq configured on Ubuntu 18.04 ( Static IP: 192.168.1.100)
/etc/resolv.conf
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Mac OSX - SSHD partially broken after El Capitan Upgrade
I recently upgraded my firm's Mac Mini device to El Capitan from Yosemite, and encountered several issues during the upgrade. I've gotten most of them resolved but one that's still failing is the SSH ...
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How to disable IPv4 use on OSX (Or disable Happy Eyeballs)
I have a OSX El Capitain (10.11.2) host that has only IPv6 connectivity. The network uses NAT64 and DNS64 to provide access to legacy IPv4 hosts on the internet. The problem is that when looking up a ...
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OSX Terminal.app seems to become 'suspended' unless I VNC into the Mac
So I have a bit of complicated setup, but let me see if I can simplify
I am running a mono application on a remote OSX machine. This application can occasionally hard-crash the mono runtime.
There ...
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How to split traffic through two different network adapters based on TCP port in OS X
I have a scenario where we will be using a Mac to stream video content to an RTMP server. This RMTP service provides 2 ingest URLs so that you can upload the same video content twice and have ...
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MAC OS X Server, process keep respawning after unloaded from launchd
I am constantly getting the following messages in system log:
com.apple.launchd.peruser.0 (homebrew.mxcl.memcached[PID]) Exited with code : 64 com.apple.launchd.peruser.0 (homebrew.mxcl.memcached)
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Poor mouse update rate on Windows RDP Client
I'm using a terminal server for inking on documents in EMR (eCW).
When connecting to the same terminal server (2008 R2) the Windows RDP clients have a very slow mouse move update rate. The Mac RDP ...
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How to divert all OUTBOUND tcp traffic on port 1935 to localhost?
Mac OS X 10.10.3.
I'm trying to use rtmpsrv. In order to do that, I have to redirect all outgoing tcp traffic on port 1935 to localhost. I tried:
sudo sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
echo 'rdr ...
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Mac OS X > pfctl > How to limit Bandwidth for a specific port?
I need to limit the Bandwidth of our Apache Server (which runs on port 80 by default).
It was easy with ipfw as follows:
sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 100Kbytes/s
sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80
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OSX Yosemite IP Forwarding not working
I coudn't manage to set up basic ip forwarding on OSX Yosemite 10.10.1 Mac-Mini.
I use the exact same configuration on a OSX Mavericks 10.9.5 Mac-Mini, and it's working perfectly ?
I set the
sudo ...
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Deny Delete Windows SMB fileshare - Mac OS X client
I'm struggling with this one. We have a folder within a shared drive that a certain group (group1) of users that can read/write and delete their own files and folders. However there is one account in ...
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Add memberOf attribute to all users in OpenLDAP on OS X Lion Server Open Directory
Our school's website has the ability to pull user authentication from a LDAP source. They "support" and LDAP. Unfortunately, to pull group membership you must have a memberOf attribute in each users' ...
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Mosh : client stay with "without contact" message
I'm trying to use mosh in replacement of ssh but it doesn't work on my computer.
On my Mac (Macos X LION), the client stay with this message and never connect :
mosh: Connecting... (10 s without ...
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Squid ignoring hosts file (using SquidMan on Mac)
I installed SquidMan 3.1 on my Mac, and it works fine. But I really need it to redirect some of the traffic using my hosts file, and it seems to be ignoring it no matter where I put it.
So far I've ...
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User directive in nginx generates error despite running as UID root
I'm running nginx on a MacOS X machine, installed with brew, and when I launch nginx, even with sudo, I get the following warning in my log file over and over again:
4/21/11 2:03:42 AM org.nginx[...
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SVN times out on OSX, but not on Windows
I am trying to checkout my company's existing code repository in order to add my iPhone project to it. Up until now, all development has been done on Windows, so I'm using the first Apple ever to try ...
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Lag in MCX (Workgroup Manager) controlled Macs
At the beginning of the day and on semi-random days, some of my Mac users are experiencing heavy lag. For example, 5-10 minutes to login, several minutes for Safari to load, visible delays while ...
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What NIS maps are needed for OSX 10.6 to authenticate?
What NIS maps are necessary for OSX 10.6 to authenticate?
I have an ubuntu-sever sharing NIS, and from the OSX client, ypcat passwd, ypcat group and (as root) ypcat shadow.byname all work, and return ...
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How to delete utun0 in my macos?
ifconfig:
utun0: flags=8050<POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1380
inet6 fe80::a3d5:45cd:d66b:6bd5%utun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x12
nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
route:
fe80::a3d5:45cd:...
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Monitoring directory changes in macOS
While exporting some mailboxes via Apple Mail in macOS, the mail client itself unfortunately does not show the progress of this operation. The only way to know if it's done is when the resulting ...
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ZFS Datasets appear as empty when shared through NFS
I was trying to create a couple of NFS shares on my file server and failing miserably. After hours of trial and error I noticed that if I share a zfs dataset directly it appears as an empty folder on ...
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Spotlight won't find files on NAS drive using AFP or SMB
This used to work and I am unclear as to why it stopped, maybe after a system update, I don't know.
I have verified that indexing for the AFP volume is enabled.
I have verified that an index is ...
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Kerberos Ticket Hand-off No Good on Chrome on macOS X
I am implementing Okta as a single-sign on provider in an enterprise environment of about 90 users. One of Okta's features is Desktop Single Sign On - the ability for users to be authenticated with ...
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Viewing Permissions in Mac OS on a Windows Server 2016 using Active Directory
I am logging into a Windows Server 2016 server and then accessing several volumes. While browsing directories in terminal, all file permissions appear as being owned by the PAM user I am logged into ...
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How to identify which process the received TCP traffic belongs to with DTrace on macOS
As can be seen here we have PID available on send but not receive. How to limit the probes to connections owned/initiated by a particular process?
sudo dtrace -n 'tcp:::receive, tcp:::send { printf("...
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ssh connection : ssh_exchange_identification: read: Operation timed out
i'm kind of a newbie for all of this but i'll try to explain my best.
First of all i'm on MacOSX
I have a remote server under ubuntu to which i would like to access by ssh.
The system administrator ...
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Downgrade mysql version macos
I have the following version of mysql : 5.7.19 but I need to downgrade it to 5.7.0 but I don't want to lose all my stored data. Is there any way to do this.
Mac version : OS X Yosemite 10.10.5
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MacOS native IKEv2 VPN client instead of AnyConnect?
Similar to this question from half a decade ago..
Can the native MacOS IKEv2 VPN client be used in lieu of Cisco AnyConnect client?
example anyconnect profile:
<AnyConnectProfile>
<...
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Is it possible to sign into Chrome Browser from a users OS authentication?
I am curious if it would be possible to sign users into their Chrome Browsers on Windows and/or Mac automatically when they sign in to their AD account.
Our G Suite account syncs all data from our AD ...
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Use OpenSSL from macports instead of OpenSSL from OSX
I am using Server app 3 with OSX 10.9.5, that came with Openssl 0.9.8zg, and since this version dont allow TLS 1.2, i decided to do an upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
Since this OpenSSL came by default, i ...
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Connection to localhost by name appears slow on OS X
I'm running some code (Perl's WWW::Mechanize module) on OS X and it keeps hanging on simple HTTP GET requests against http://localhost:5000/. My server is fine, but the response time is measured in ...
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Getting "Can't create/write to file '/var/lib/mysql/is_writable'" using docker (inside vagrant on OS X)
I am trying to use docker-compose/docker inside a vagrant machine hosted on OS X. Running 'docker-compose up' always fails with
mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/var/lib/mysql/is_writable' (...
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nginx frustrations on OSX when trying to run on port 80
This didn't work for some reason:
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
location / {
root html;
index index.html index.htm;
}
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}
I got
Failed ...
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Ubuntu 14 running Samba CPU Utilization 100%
I recently setup a virtual server running on Ubuntu 14.04 to take the place of a Mac server we were using for file sharing. The shared file directory probably has tens of thousands of files, and the ...
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