many a slip ‘twixt mind and lip…
So as host, ping, nslookup, dig etc don’t use the same resolver path as the rest of the OS, we used to always use lookupd for this.
It’s not exactly the most obvious solution in the world, but since lookupd, netinfod and memberd were all rolled into DirectoryService in 10.5, we now use dscacheutil to do [...]
And along similar lines to the afp548.com article on this, Greg Neagle written a similar piece describing how he’d use it in his environment (and it even has screenshots …).
So my webhost managed to mess up all htacess files and thus lock me out of my blog for a couple of weeks. I considered briefly posting via MySQL, but then dragged myself back into the realm of the sane and just waited it out. Apologies to the comments that were awaiting moderation…. [...]
Full props to Josh for getting this out there….
Go and read all about it now…
Seriously though, this is how imaging has to be done these days for Macs. Given that we have all these excellent tools now, and given that Apple keep messing us around by releasing hardware that isn’t quite compatible with the latest [...]
Seeing as how half the visitors to this site still seem to coming here via AFP-related searches in Google… this is something I’d noticed a while ago, but simply started adding more RAM as I had more lying around.
Find operations on AFP servers can really slow down the system. Apple have now produced a nice [...]
So after a couple of people requested this on the MacEnterprise mailing list….
This is a really simple AppleScript Studio application that allows you to create a Mobile User Account with a local home directory other than “/Users/nigelkersten”.
To get started….
Open up the Xcode project.
Edit “ldapDomain” and “pathToHomes” to reflect your LDAP domain and where you want [...]
So something I find that I need to do quite often is to log in as a specific user, and I don’t always want to reset their password.
While AFP has a really useful function where you can allow admins of an AFP server to masquerade as a specific user by using the admin password, no [...]
“Tuning” is in quotes because… well you’ll see once you read the article. :)
Go check it out at afp548.com, which you should all be reading religiously anyway. :)
I’ve just added a link to it in the side column, but it’s well worthwhile checking out Greg Neagle’s Managing OS X blog.
There are getting the screensaver to work over the loginwindow, several, really, good posts on using Portable Home Directories without Open Directory.
AFP. It ain’t so bad.
From looking at the mailing lists and discussion boards, you’ll see that a reasonable number of people seem to be having problems with their AFP servers under OS X Server 10.4.x, particularly under heavy load with network home directories, and particularly in terms of stability. I used to be one of [...]