Step 1 In order to enable a system to be used as a Task Server, open Remote Desktop, click on the Remote Desktop menu item and click on Preferences. Then click on the Task Server tab and click on Use Task Server on this Computer. Then check the box for Allow Remote Connections to this Server. Step 2 To utilize the task server that you have just setup, go to one of the computers that will use Remote Desktop for management and open Remote Desktop, click on the Remote Desktop menu item and click on Preferences. Then click on the Task Server tab and click on Use Remote…
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Xsan: File Locking with Bridgeheads
AFP locks files by default. With Xsan you want the cvfs to lock the files if they are in use (like when you’re putting multiple bridgehead servers in front of an Xsan volume for AFP sharing). Therefore, you can use the AFP settings for the AFP daemon to prevent AFP from locking files. You would do so using the following command: serveradmin settings afp:lock_manager = no
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Mac OS X Server: List Local Users
List those local users on the computer using this command: dscl localhost list /Local/Default
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Mac OS X: screencapture
You can capture screenshots from the command line using the screencapture command. Basically just typing screencapture followed by the path and name of the file to be created will result in a capture of the entire screen. You can also use -c to capture to the clipboard instead of to a file (or Command-Shift-3 if you’re in the GUI). By default screencapture does not get the mouse. You can add the mouse location and pointer to your screenshot using the -C option in your command. Because you have multiple monitors in many cases you may only want to capture a single monitor. You can specify that using the -m option.…
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Mac OS X: Reset Open Firmware Password
To reset the open firmware password you can either reboot while resetting PRAM 3 or more times or just pull out the RAM, reboot and reseat it after the next restart. Have fun with that.
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Man Pages in Safari or Firefox
BWANA! Once installed just type man:chmod, or man:sudo and the man page will be displayed in safari. The links work as well. It even has a search bar at the top. http://www.bruji.com/bwana/
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Mac OS X: MacBook Wireless
The MacBook Pro’s wireless reception is relatively poor in comparison to the MacBook. The reason? The aluminum casehas a tendency to interfere with its radio waves. The wireless signal is received only through the antenna located in the clutch (note the rubbery area under the MacBook Pro lettering on the bottom of your display) – that rubbery material is transparent to the radio waves. The MacBook itself has a plastic case. Most plastics, unlike aluminum, are relatively transparent to radio waves – so better wireless reception.
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Mac OS X: Saving iChat Sessions
So maybe you want to save all those iChats you have. Well, open iChat, click on the iChat menu and click on Preferences. Here, click on Messages and check the box for Automatically Save Chat Transcripts and select the location. The close the Preferences dialog. That’s it.
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Mac OS X: Require Password at Single User Mode
By default, Mac OS X will simply give you a shell when you perform a Single User Mode startup. However, you can force OS X to ask for a password in order to gain shell access. To do so, vi the /etc/ttys and change secure to insecure. Once you have done so, create a password in /etc/master.passwd for root.
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Mac OS X: Find SetUID files
Granted it really doesn’t matter any more now that they’re not allowed, but if you need to find them here ya’ go: find / -type f ( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 ) -exec ls -al {} ; 2>/dev/null