Questions tagged [mac]

The Macintosh or Mac is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
58 votes
55 answers
92k views

What are useful Command-line Commands on Mac OS X?

Per the Windows and Linux threads, what commands do you find most useful in Mac OS X Server (or Client)?
27 votes
6 answers
52k views

Mac OS X multi-user thin client server (terminal server)?

Is there any solution out there to turn a Mac into a true multi-user thin client server? I'd like to set up a few cheap PCs with access to a couple accounts using something like VNC, but it isn't ...
username's user avatar
  • 4,785
22 votes
7 answers
3k views

Backup strategy for developer-focused Apple environments?

It's interesting to see the technological split between structured corporate environments and more developer-driven/startup environments. Some of the Microsoft technologies I take for granted (VSS, ...
ewwhite's user avatar
  • 198k
13 votes
3 answers
15k views

rsync --iconv option on Mac not working (sync from remote Linux server to local Mac)

I want to use rsync to backup data from a remote Linux server to my local Mac. And I want to initialise this operation on my local Mac. All works fine except that there is a special character problem: ...
Nick The Swede's user avatar
9 votes
10 answers
52k views

Getting an IP's MAC address from behind a router

I want to know, if possible, how to get a MAC address of an IP address if I am behind a router. I tried doing a ping to the IP and checking the arp table, but the only entry is the router's MAC. Any ...
Macarse's user avatar
  • 213
8 votes
1 answer
12k views

How to add a Mac to Windows Active Directory

I've gone into the Directory Utility on the mac, clicked on the services tab, entered the Active Directory Domain and Computer ID, clicked the Bind button and it showed a little status label which ...
CodeAndCats's user avatar
8 votes
1 answer
10k views

Mac OS X VPN Encryption Defaults

I need to connect one Mac (OS X 10.8.2) from our internal network to a site-to-site VPN and was asked to provide some information about our network and encryption settings. What are the OS X defaults ...
joemaller's user avatar
  • 231
2 votes
5 answers
2k views

File shares for Mac users

The main file shares on our network are currently hosted by old Apple XServes. I had planned to replace some of these with Windows shares as I have better hardware available but have been told this ...
Generic Error's user avatar
1 vote
2 answers
3k views

Setting up a cluster of Mac computers with same configuration/applications?

What is the best way to configure a group of Mac workstation clients (iMac, macbook, mac pro) for all my employees? I want to install IDE (Netbeans, Eclipse), setup rails environment, organize ...
ajsie's user avatar
  • 1,255
16 votes
7 answers
87k views

How do I change the Software Update server address on a client Mac (to use my own server)?

Now that I have started the Software Update service on my Leopard Server, how do I change my client Macs to check for updates on it?
username's user avatar
  • 4,785
11 votes
5 answers
175k views

Can I use nmap to discover IPs and mac addresses?

When I need to locate the IPs of devices by their mac address on a Windows system, I normally use Advanced IP Scanner (from radmin.com) to scan the network, then I use arp -a to list the mac addresses....
vfclists's user avatar
  • 1,652
9 votes
7 answers
67k views

ERROR 2002 MYSQL socket /tmp/mysql.sock

A have already read everything about this error but I coundn't solve the problem. ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (38) I'm trying to install ...
Rafael Pontes's user avatar
8 votes
8 answers
420 views

Macintosh gotchas

Up until now, I've only managed networks with Windows users and the occasional *nix server. Soon, a few users with Macs will get added to our network. What are some "gotchas" to look out for when ...
Dinah's user avatar
  • 407
7 votes
1 answer
5k views

What needs to be done/added on Apple MacBook Air in order to join domain and be managed?

We are a fully windows active directory company. I now have a MacBook Air (first in company) - that needs to be connected. What are the things I need to install/set in order for me to be able to ...
Saariko's user avatar
  • 1,801
7 votes
3 answers
5k views

What are the advantages of adding a Mac to Active Directory?

I was surprised to learn (from this question: How to add a Mac to Windows Active Directory) that you could add a Mac to AD. What are the advantages of doing so?
cagcowboy's user avatar
  • 1,072
6 votes
3 answers
8k views

Find IP address of a device?

Open question: How to find the IP address of a device? As I understand, there are no guaranteed methods that work always, but there's a hundred approaches that work in specific situations, and I'd ...
5 votes
6 answers
1k views

How do you manage your Mac workstations?

Our whole company is Macs on the desktop. We have primarily iMacs and MacBook pros. For the last few years we've been using RadMind to manage their system image but the software has a number of ...
Kamil Kisiel's user avatar
  • 12.3k
5 votes
5 answers
15k views

Ensure Macs get correct machine name from DHCP?

I have a problem in our network where our Mac's occasionally get given the wrong machine name while, I guess, getting a new DHCP lease. The DHCP servers are Windows based - the bulk of our network ...
Greg Whitfield's user avatar
4 votes
6 answers
15k views

How to setup the Mac OS X Terminal so it's *just peachy*?

My Terminal is awesome, has every detail just right (for me anyway), and now I'm setting up a few new macs around here and I have no idea whatsoever how to get their terminals to a pretty state. My ...
kch's user avatar
  • 4,682
4 votes
5 answers
3k views

Setting up daemons on Mac OS X

I've recently given in to temptation and bought a new MacBook - I've upgraded the RAM, got AppleCare etc. and am really enjoying myself! I've been setting up my development environment - compiling my ...
4 votes
3 answers
3k views

Workaround for using ".local" as a Leopard Server's hostname?

Using ".local" as your hostname breaks Kerberos (and other services) in Mac OS Server 10.5 Advanced because the server will only do Bonjour lookups instead of checking with the DNS Server(s). There is ...
username's user avatar
  • 4,785
3 votes
1 answer
397 views

Active Directory lookups from bound Mac without user credentials

One of my Mac boot scripts needs to grab a property from AD that is not one of the ones I can see with the built in tool called dscl, which is pretty much limited to Users, Groups, and Computer ...
Geordie Korper's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
1k views

Does Mac OS X SNMP report cached memory?

We're using a Nagios plugin to check the chassis of hosts over SNMP. I'm trying to set up a mac os x machine, but it's failing. All the rest of our hosts we're checking are Linux. This is the first ...
Amandasaurus's user avatar
  • 32.3k
3 votes
5 answers
4k views

How can I set up a local host with a reasonable name, different than "localhost:80"?

I find it confusing to work on my site locally when there's something like "localhost:80" in the adress bar. It would be much better to have something like "mydomainoffline.com" which then maps ...
openfrog's user avatar
  • 235
2 votes
6 answers
3k views

Mac and Exchange Server 2007: Entourage or wait for Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6)?

In a time frame of three of four months from now (fall 2009), I'll have to choose how to natively enable a handful of mac computers to access Exchange Server 2007 (email, contacts, calendar.) As far ...
splattne's user avatar
  • 28.6k
2 votes
3 answers
5k views

Odd permissions issues on Windows Server 2008 R2 with Macs OS 10.6/.7/.8

*I have four macs that use a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine to share files as part of their workflow, each user has their own folder and completed jobs are dropped in an archive folder when complete. ...
Keith Loughnane's user avatar
2 votes
3 answers
9k views

How to configure a CISCO ASA to support the OS X VPN Client

Given that OS X now supports (natively) CISCO IPSec VPN connections I am wondering what the requirements for the VPN configuration are on the remote end? I have evaluated a number of CISCO devices (...
Matthew Savage's user avatar
2 votes
2 answers
9k views

TS Gateway support for Mac?

With Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services you can utilise the Terminal Services Gateway Server to allow RDP access over 443, eliminating the need for VPNs or firewall re-configurations for external ...
flytzen's user avatar
  • 185
2 votes
3 answers
689 views

Mac OS X Firewall Configuration: what's the easiest way to do it?

On occasion I need to configure the firewall on OS X machines (10.5), and I've been trying to figure out the best (read: easy without sacrificing too much control) way to do it. So far it seems like ...
David Wolever's user avatar
2 votes
1 answer
2k views

Wake on Demand for Apache server in OS X 10.8 [closed]

Mac OS X Mountain Lion does not have a Web Sharing box in the Sharing system prefs menu. It is thoroughly discussed on the web that the Apache server is available, and that it can be turned on ...
Gary's user avatar
  • 31
2 votes
1 answer
2k views

gitolite mac don't add new user to authorized_keys

I installed gitolite and every thing works fine for me as admin. But when I'd like to add add a new user the new user can't connect to the server. After I looked into the file authorized_keys I saw ...
crashbus's user avatar
  • 121
1 vote
0 answers
557 views

MAC address in arp table doesn't match actual MAC, why?

If I connect my laptop directly to the config port of a ubnt airFiber radio I can set a static IP to my laptop and access the default config page to change settings on the radio. When I look at the ...
demiAdmin's user avatar
  • 155
1 vote
2 answers
223 views

Office 2008 with Network/Mobile Accounts

Using Microsoft Office 2008 with network and mobile accounts this year was very painful (with the software being unbearably slow or crashing). Aside from redirecting the cache, what should be done so ...
Clinton Blackmore's user avatar
0 votes
3 answers
892 views

DHCP Reservation

I've been having problems with a few statements I've been reading. When setting up DHCP Reservation based on MAC addresses... Do the reserved IP's need to be in one of the scopes or not? Judging from ...
Dempsey FoxDie Van Assche's user avatar
0 votes
2 answers
719 views

Network account problems with mac server OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard

Okay the situation is this. Yesterday my company changed our dns server, because our former one, was too unstable to work with. anyway today i went to one of our mac server, because it needed to be ...
Tomas's user avatar
  • 259