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How can I create a user in OS X on a MacBook Pro? How do I login as root? When I use the adduser command as a user with admin privileges, I tells me the command is not found.
Hi, We recently started to experience problems when working with CS3 files off our fileserver. Multi-layered files and large files intermittently become corrupted and rendered useless. Wh...
Does any one know how to create a image of a Macintosh HD? So i can copy it from my Macbook Pro to iMac? Lyon
Hello, A client has asked me to reinstall their MAC OS. I have never done this before, however I know well Windows inside and the whole process around Windows installs.. MACs I have no idea...
is it possible to setup filemaker or in a mac os x, when user send a print then the print will go to two different printers making one copy in one and the other copy on another printer without...
Mac OSX Allows SSH users to read/write to their user folder, and Read all other folders. How do I setup users so that they can only access their own user folder with read/write, but can't esc...
I have a Mac book running Leopard. My Bluetooth does not work. In System Preferences Sharing Bluetooth does not appear on the list It has worked fine before.
Hi, When I send an email from mac mail it embeds it in the body of the email instead of as an attachment. I have gone through all the settings can anyone help?
I have used Netrestore Helper to create my image but it won't show up in Netboot. My image is imac.dmg, as created by Netrestore Helper, but when I try and add it to the Netboot Service is ...
I have a customer running a PPTP VPN, an ISA server terminates the VPN.  We have a number of Windows clients which connect without an issues, but one person wishes to use a Mac.  I have very l...
I don't have a DVD burner but I have a disk image of the Tiger install dvd on my iBook G4. I am currently running panther. Is there a way to run the upgrade using the disk image without having...
Ever since I signed up for MobileMe and synched up iCal with Entourage and MobileMe, my performance has been incredibly slow. Is there a relationship? I had a whole series of problems with the...
We are looking to purchase a PowerEdge server running Windows Server 2003 and using Symantec BackupExec software.  This is to prepare a Disaster Recovery solution for our PC-based computers an...
Hello, I would like to know if you can install MAC OS X Tiger (Intel) on a Dell D505, and if the ones listed on Ebay are OK to buy. I don't know much about MACs but $48 for an OS seems pret...
We are running in an Exchange 2003 environment and have a All-in-One Device which is setup to allow users to scan a document to an email address.  All the users in the office, which run PCs wi...
Running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3. I have joined it to my 2003 Active directory domain. I would like to redirect the users folder or at least the user/documents folder to a network folder on a f...
Sherlock no longer displays movies and stock quotes on my iMac running 10.4.11? What happened?
I am thinking of buying a Mac and a new mobile phone. I live in Finland, and we do not have iPhones here, so the mobile phone must be some other brand, maybe SonyEricsson or Samsung. I'd l...
The latest version of Leopard comes with a sceensaver called Beaches.  Whenever my Mac sits idle for about 5 min the screensaver starts up, which then transitions from about 10 different beach...
Hello, I have installed Microsoft Windows Vista on my MacBook. I don't have Mac OSX on the MacBook and am not running BootCamp. I am having difficulties with a few drivers on the laptop ...
Hi, From the terminal in Mac OS X (10.5), I want to carry out several FTP commands without having to wait for each sequential upload - i.e. I want some way of telling the FTP prompt to carr...
How can I change a file's creation/modified date in os x? I am guessing i would have to do it through the command prompt.
I know that OS X supports X11, however I want to run the native cocoa apps remotely on my laptop like how Xhost works in Unix. Is it possible to have several users do this at once?
Using OSX 10.5 Leopard, I would like to set up a Mac in an area with the intention of distributing files to people with wifi enabled cells phones like the iPhone. I know I need to set up a sha...
I am pretty new to Mac and MUCH more adept in Windows world, unfortunately.  I have a client with 3 iMacs and 2 MacBooks.  We recently setup a Windows 2003 SBS for them for email and file shar...