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Hi,

I am having problems setting up a VPN server on Lion Server 10.7.3. When I try to connect using a Lion client (10.7.3.) I receive the error 'Authentication Failed'

I have created a new user, checked password and sharedkey and the error...

We recently built a NAS server to use for backups in our art department which consists of 3 Macs and 2 PCs. We are running FreeNAS version 8.0.3-RELEASE-p1-x64 (9591). We currently  have both CIFS and AFP shares enabled. Our PCs connect using...

I have the following message logged in my MAC Outlook 2011, any idea ?

Error:
Could not synchronize record: FREE to Exchange server

Detail
The folder save operation failed due to invalid property values

Error Code : -19918

Any idea...

I have a 2008 AD with a couple 2003 servers. I recently entered a Mac Mini server with Lion 10.7.3. I now have Macs (also with 10.7.3) able to login with AD users and their redirected drive seems to work on the Macs that they pull from AD.

The...

Im trying to conect to my office vpn through an exising Remote access VPN setup on a cisco ASA, windows xp and windows 7 clients connect ok.

When i setup the L2TP connection on my mac i connect, authenticate and i can even see the DNS servers...

In our environment, we are using the Citrix XenApp Plugin for Hosted Apps on our PC's for the end users to access various apps hosted on our Citrix farm.
We now have the need to find a similair app for all the Mac's on our network.  I couldn't...

I have a Snow Leopard install disks with a second disk of utilities that came with the PC. Running Lion, I am having trouble getting Xcode to install properly. I had real difficulty downloading it and getting it to complete the installation, from...

In our Branch office, we have an XServe Snow Leopard server serving Open Directory,AFP, DNS, LDAP and binded to AD. We purchased a Mac MIni Server Lion with intention to setup an OD Replica to serve a small number of MACs in the Head Office.
...

On my Windows partition, I run BitDefender. What is the best on the Mac?

Thanks.

I have a client that just purchased a number of Macbook's along with an OSX Lion server.  I am supposed to setup the Lion Server in Dual Directory mode so that it can manage the Macbooks.  The current Windows domain ends in .local.  Whenever I...

Hi,

I have backup utility that needs to be run on schedule on client computers. It's called Backuplist+ We make backups to network share. However when network share is not mounted backup is missed. In this utility there is the option to run...

Can an Intel based Macintosh running the first OS for Intel chipsets be upgraded to the most recent Mac OS?

Dear Experts,

We attempt to install OSX Lion Server on the VMware VCenter Server (Version 5.0.0 build 455964) without success.

Apple Mac OS X 10.7 (64-bit) is available in the OS Version Selection of the Virtual Machine in VCenter, however...

Hi there,
 
We have about 20 brand new 15" MBP's with  2.5GHz core i7's and 8GB of ram each.
 
Each of these machines is running the latest version of Lion.
 
Each of these machines is updated to the current version of CS 5.5 standard.
 ...

Is there a way to move the built in apps out of the Applications folder into a subfolder?  There are a lot of them that I don't and won't use.  I would like to get them out of sight.

I've managed to get my iMac to connect to my Win 7 PC over ethernet using the smb command.  I've transferred some 110gb.  When I run a properties check on the folder on the windows pc, it shows approx 1,000 files more than the version copied to...

I downloaded XCode and have run it, and am pretty confident all is okay. But I am rebuilding my system and see on my old hard drive a folder called "Developer" existed and contained lots of sub-folders, including Platforms and SDKs. On my new...

Why was one created on my desktop for a CSV file on the desktop?  What's the use of it?

Thanks.

I have iMac, 2.8 GHz i7, running Lion 10.7.3.

Since we upgraded to Lion, we have had periodic problems with cursor - at times it will start to function as an eraser (just like the old art drawing programs - wherever you move the cursor it...

Since I installed Lion on my mac book pro; Safari has this annoying habit of popping up windows of past sites I have visited during previous sessions. All I want is to have Safari only put up pages of the home page or the url link I double...

I have an OSX Lion drive in a Macbook that won't boot. I can see the drive in Disk Utility and it checks out ok, but the "Macintosh HD" partition, can't be repaired. Here is the details of the Repair Disk...
Verify and Repair volume "Macintosh...

I'm looking for a Mac OS X email backup utility that will backup all Mac Outlook 2011 email to an external backup device such as a USB drive.

What kind of backup utilities are available that can do this?

When Mail in Lion detects duplicate messages in a mailbox, it groups them together and shows the link in the header "x Duplicates", where x is the number of duplicate messages found. When that link is clicked the duplicate messages show in the...

Good evening Experts,

I have two Macs that were donated to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County  (BGCMC)(This is where I work) and I would like to pick your brains on how to make the OS look and feel more like Windows 7. My youth will...

If I had 50 GB of my own data and was thinking about cramming the following onto a 128GB SSD, would I be crazy?

Mac Lion
Parallels
Windows 7 (probably Home version)
MS Office 2011 for Mac
50GB of my own files

Curios...

I'm new to Macs.  Just about converted from PCs but new.

I have a wired network and I have a Mac Mini and a Windows file server.

I've created a user on the file server with the same name as my Mac username with the same password.  I've...

Is it possible for a Mac to connect to DFS shares on a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory network?  How?  

Thanks.

I use Git, SourceTree and Xcode on a Mac Lion machine. But I think I need an "External Diff" tool. I will also most certainly need a Merge tool as well.

What can you suggest? I prefer free, but would pay a little for a tool that's pretty nice,...

I have a special character that I frequently use in Windows that I also need access to on the Mac.  I know there are some special characters available using the Alt and Option keys but this is not one of them.  In Windows, this is built in as key...

My MSDN does not include Office products so I am thinking about buying a license for Mac Office 2011. But that does not include Visio.

I may buy Visio for Windows if it can run stand-alone on my Windows partition, with the rest of Office as...

A bunch of apps are launching when I startup my Mac Book Pro and never in the setup did I tell anything to launch at startup.  How can I stop this annoyance?  Thanks.

I cannot get my macbook pro to rdp into my windows 7 machine at my office.  I am using a vpn to get on the network from home.  I can rdp into all of the Windows servers at the office, but when i try to rdp into my windows machine, using the ip...

I opened Xcode and created a new Tabbed iOS application and clicked Run. The window showed up in the simulator, but looked very large with tiny print. I Quit the Simulator from the menu bar, then found Xcode unresponsive.

It's like it's at a...

How can I check my disk to see how much is used?

Also, I'd like to fid how to browse the contents of the disk.

Thanks.

I already cleared it With Apple that the memory from my 2.0 GH Quad 4 MacBook Pro will run on my just purchased 2.4 GH Quad 4 MacBook Pro. I bought the faster machine with less RAM and will upgrade it to 8 gig by swapping with the 4 gig on the...

One user is going to have a new MAC PRO with the latest MAC OS installed.  

This user will be working with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, Word, Excel.

All the other users are working with a PC (WIndows 7)

The MAC can access...

I have experience with programming Mac when ThinkC was the only option for C++. Recently I have been asked to convert a Windows C++ program to later Macs running OS X. I know that Xcode will compile C++ code, but I wonder how easy and effective...

I am not sure what I might be doing to cause this or what configurations may have changed, but when I open Safari, there is a blank one open as well. It's completely white and when viewed in the menu, shows up as Untitled.

Any idea??

Now that I use Xcode 4.3, the SDK is no longer in the /Developer folder. So were can I find it?

I found the following link containing these path's, and suspect the path is here. I just do not know how to get it to input into DreamWeaver.
...

How to connect shared smb drive from shell on Mac OS X Lion?

We use free backup software on our Macs. It's name is Backuplist+. We backup to shared device. Shred device is DFS Windows share. Mac OS X Lion supports connecting to DFS shares....

I have an iMac running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) with Windows 7 installed on a bootcamp partition.
In the past, I have used  Winclone 2 to take an image of a Windows XP bootcamp partition with no problems. Whenever I try to use it to take an image...

Hi experts,

I own a Macbook Pro 15 Zoll 2011. I installed iDisplay yesterday and tried it out.
iDisplay is an app for using the iPad as an external monitor.

The resolution of the iPad is 1024x768 (or so). After I mentioned, that the...

im setting up a lion server as a file server, mail server, ical, address book, and wiki server.  I'll also be running as an open directory master, serving a mix of approx 15 desktops/laptops.

am i better off setting it with a private network...

First question is how do I delete a contact?

Thanks.

I am still new to the Mac and have trouble getting to the first email in the list, for example.

Hi,

Is there an an that lets me scan a business card from a photo I take of it into my iPhone Contacts. If so, plea tell me right away so I can cancel the order I placed for a business card scanner.

Thanks!

Ok.  I've apparently changed a setting inadvertently somewhere and now things are being deteled immediately when I drop them in the trashcan rather than staying there if I need to bring them back.

Anyone know where this setting is?

TextEdit and QuickTime hang quite often on network accounts over here on one specific client.  Each document opened in these programs take about 5 minutes to open and then the app unhangs.  I have cleared preferences and even reinstalled the OS...

I Purchased a Macbook pro 15"  2 days back.
I am unable to connect to internet through ethernet(Cable modem)
Was previously using Mac Mini with the same connection without any problems.
Even now it works on Mac mini but not on mac book pro....

In going  through the TextEdit documentation I don't see a way to attach a key board shortcut to a style, as you can with Word.  For example, in Word I have Alt+2 assigned to my second-level headings and I find it very convenient to just select...

Anyone know how to address this pop-up: " "Default Windows Audio Device is either missing or not connected properly. Please reconnect it and press OK."  I am running Parallels with Win 7 on a new MacBook Pro.  Thanks.

I am curious if it was solely the Mac Lion update that solved this, or did a program catch it?
...

I prefer seeing folders sorted "By Kind" and want that to be the case each time I open finder.

Can I do this?


Thanks.

On a Mac 10.7.3 Lion I am using MS Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac v. 2.1.1.  I am able to get a good connection from a remote location to the XP computers on our small network for not to the Win 7 computers.  When using RDT from a...

Dear experts,

I have Mac G5, which seems to have a bad HDD.  I wanted to replace it with Western Digital WD5000AAKX SATA drive, however, the new drive will not be recognized by either the OS installer, or the Disk Utility.  It simply does not...

I scanned an image into Lion but need to rotate it. In Windows I right click and select Rotate.

How do I do this on the Mac?

Thanks.

Pretty straight forward experts.

I'm trying to figure out/find a GOOD step-by-step on how to configure/confirm/test ...
I need .htaccess working on my osx dev server.

Please help !!

TIA !

In Windows I can copy a URL to the clipboard using Windows Explorer, then copy the folder into a DOS command window. That saves me lots of time.

Can I do this with Mac Lion?

Thanks.

I am moving from Windows 7 to the Mac/Windows 7/iPhone platform. And I need to store dozens of username/passwords. I'd like it on my iPhone since I want them always with me. I think it would be smart for them to be encrypted.  What programs exist...

Snap-to grid was working and has stopped.  I've looked everywhere for the setting.

Help!

I hate using the mouse or trackback when the keyboard should suffice. In Windows, I can do Alt+Tab to toggle various instances of Internet Explorer. On the Mac, I have need to use the trackball to switch to another instance of Safari.

Is there...

I can not close Lion because Finder is blocking it.

What could be the problem?

Thanks.

Trying to spin a UIImageView in XCode 4.
The line of code below:

thePie.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(theSpin);

Spins it like end over end and sideways.

thePie is an UIImageView.

Want it to spin like a pinwheel.

I have an OSX Lion Ical server in my network that seems to be working fine except that all my internal users DO NOT get an email notification everytime an organizer creates an event.

My users complain that they are not always looking at iCal...

I plugged in the printer and was able to print from it immediately. But how do I scan?

I just bought a new iMac and have a Dell 2135CN that I would like to use with it. Dell doesn't offer Mac drivers for it. What are my options to get it to work?

I am running office 2011 and i am trying to setup outlook with exchange on a macbook running Lion. The interface and settings are completely different then the PC version of outlook. I am having troubles setting this up. Any help would be greatly...

I have a MacBook Pro with a 2GH i7 processor and 8GB of RAM. And I am thinking about buying a 2.5GH machine with 4GB of RAM. The plan it to swap the hard disks and upgrade the faster machine to have 8GB of RAM.

Is this possible? Would I simply...

My wife sprayed some Windex counter spray on the keyboard and then this started happening.  
I have a Macbook that will only boot into Windows.  I also have to attach a separate keyboard to type in the password.  The caps stay on if I don't use...

I tried touching the Home button twice to see if I could close the programs like I do on the iPhone with no luck.

How can I clear out the icons for programs I have run so when I load iOS Simulator I only see the icon for the program I am...

We have a user that recently purchased a MAC book pro and we were trying to configure email in the MAC and it sayd can not contact server. However if we go to the Exchange 2010 OWA site it configures fine.
If we put in the IP address it finds...

I am having a terrible time with an ISP hosting my domain as a MAPI email. I have an iPhone and have all kinds of problems using Outlook, since this ISP dos not support Outlook or iPhone. I have a Mac Lion.

I am considering dumping Outlook and...

Hello,


When I open a Word File on the server that is saved in the old .doc format,
the "date modified" changes, even though I did not do anything to change the
file.  

  ...

Hey there, I have an exchange 2003 server set up with HTTPS/RPC and is serving Outlook 2010 fine on PC's from outside the LAN

I have a MAC that needs to connect to do the same from external, I have installed outlook 2011 on it, what do I need...

Is there a way to disable Lion from perpetually asking to authenticate to make changes

I am about to swap hard drives between two systems and will need to install Lion onto each of them, once the hardware is swapped. And to prevent me from accidentally booting either new machine with an incorrect Lion install, I want to wipe the...

I'm looking for the very best backup software for a Mac OS X Server v. 10.5.8 with a Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5 processor. I have included a screenshot of the Mac Server's specs.

This backup software needs to be able to backup the Mac OS X v....

Hi,

I got one client who happened to use a Mac O/S 10.6. She wanted to backup her data from Mac HD into her external HD every 30mins.

I'm new to Mac so I posted this question...Does Mac Desktop has built-In backup system that you can use,...

I may have seen an option from Xcode to run the app on the iPhone? If so, how does that work?

Where is Xcode do I configure it?


Thanks.

I am not sure why I saw that file for the first time today, but it looks very useful.  I am a former Windows user and developer looking to learn about this platform, and am even writing an iPhone app at the moment.

So what kinds of great...

My Macbook Pro will not boot up.  I get the chime with the grey screen and then the message telling me to reboot my system.   I booted to the CD and tried to run a repair on the disk but it came back with - "1 HFS Vol Checked.  Count not be...

'm running a Lion system (10.7.3) that was upgraded from Snow Leopard. I want to update the "locate" database. I tried what is prescribed everywehre I've searched on line:
 
That gives errors:
 
What's wrong and how does one fix this?
 ...

I am new to Mac but remember hearing there is a feature of Lion or an add on program where I can lock files with a password, and that it's protected by encryption?

- What's that called?
- Is it public key / private key encryption?
- How do...

And does it synchronize with my iPhone?

I need a screen capture program for the Mac which will allow me to "highlight" certain parts of the shot, like you would do with a "highlighter"

Anybody know of a good one?  (preferably FREE?)

When my Mac is on I see a bunch of other Macs nearby listed in Finder, and I do not really want to see them. Also, I would rather preserve my anonymity.

How canI do this?

Thanks.

I have seen people setup their Macs such that they have four desktop that they can navigate to.  How is this setup?

Hi guys,

One of my clients has an issue with the Preview application in Mac OS X.  I have limited Mac knowledge but this has been going on for several months now and I need some help!

The user opens a TIFF file using Preview.  He resizes or...

When I try and restore the Repository created by SourceTree, I find a folder named "Folder". When I click it its not selectable. I presume the Repository was created there.

How can I restore it if I can not select it?

And how can I restore...

I would like to automatically install updates on our Mac Cients once downloaded from our server.  I know admin rights are needed but is there a way to do this without visiting every machine? I have found some suggestions but they have involved...

Old age question: how to get Windows on a mac in order to run some proprietary stockmarket software (Metastocks from Equis) to work.  I dont want to use bootcamp as I dont want to "boot into a windows system" but rather run it along side OS X.
...

Hi everyone, I have been able to get a "golden triangle" configuration working with OD/AD and some test OSX clients.  I can log in no problems.  Only thing is that when I go to try to set preference settings on users or computers in the workgroup...

Hi Everyone, I have OSX server bound to AD using the golden triangle method.  I can authenticate just fine, and user prefs work just fine.  The way I did that is I created an OD group, and added AD user accts to that group, and then applied prefs...

I use a G15 on my Mac Mini, not for gaming but because it has a whole bunch of programmable keys.  

It maps Ctrl to Ctrl, Alt to Option and the Windows Key to Command.  

Everything else works fine except for the Home and End keys which...

Please use the Safari Browser to visit the link.  

What I hope you will see is that the banner image will be black at page load time and will gradually fade to a picture of the beach.  Please post back here to tell me if it worked that way for...

My wife has a MacBook Pro
Does anyone know if it can be/ or how to install Corel Paintshop Pro X4 on a Mac?
I use PaintShop Pro X3 on my PC and thought she could use the same on her Mac but I can't figure out how to install the trial download.

I see I can download SourceTree from the AppleStore. Will this allow me to use Git without dealing with the command line? (I use Lion)

I want to use Git, but expect it wold take me a long time to learn it. How about installing SourceTree? I am...

Is it posible to install mac on intel atom d2500  Please suggest