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Ok, I'm admittedly an Apple noob when it comes to Active Directory linking and mobile accounts. Here is what I am trying to do, this is with my personal MacBook recently purchased. The reason I am doing this is to learn more about Mac integration...

I have a very simple, textbook 2 vlan setup.   That resembles the following:  

2800 Router  
interface GigabitEthernet0/0.10
 encapsulation dot1Q 10 native
 ip address 10.1.19.2 255.255.252.0
 ip flow ingress
 ip pim sparse-dense-mode
!...

I read a Mac World article that stated Microsofts new version of RDP for MAC was going to allow PC users to connect to Macs via RDP... But, looking at Microsofts web site about RDP for Mac, it seems that the RDP software only allows Macs to...

I have several Mac users with a mix of Office:2011 and Office:2008 for the Mac.  All network file sharing is being done from a Windows 2003 box via SMB.

All users with either windows office 2007 or Mac Office:2008 have never had any problem...

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Last weekend I upgraded my MacBook Pro 17 inch mid 2010 from 10.6.x to 10.7.2. Following the upgrade everything appeared to work great. I can connect to my home network, and access anything I want or need to - except our company VPN. When...

When I go to Citrix's website, the only receiver that I can find for the MAC is only compatible with 10.6 or newer. I have a user that has 10.5.8 and said when they tried to use the one the website, it didn't work

I just changed the password on my card and now I can't log back in to its control panel.

I'm not daft, in as much as I know for certain what I changed the password to but it will not let me back in!

I have tried the default password ('hpt')...

I have a Server 2003 R2 environment with two Server 2003 R2 DCs running AD.  I have an eSafe security device acting as my firewall/spam filter.  We have always blocked iTunes and Apple products but are embracing iPhones and iPads so I need to be...

I use hotmail and use iCal and want the two to sync. Is there a way to add a hotmail calendar as an account within iCal. I use iCal 4.0.1

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We are having a lot of problems from Mac OS X when connected to a Windows 2008 R2 file server.

Typically we are having a lot of issues deleting files and directories where the progress bar stops moving half way through the...

I have a mac (powerbook G4, OSX version 10.4.8) and need to print to a Samsung ML-1740 printer.
Samsung no longer supports this printer and I can't find the correct drivers.  I found some driver that worked for someone else, but its not working...

is there any software that can find the product key used on Mac OS X Microsoft Office for Mac software?  i know there is one for PC that captures the product key number used for the software installed, but i am not sure for Mac.

or is there...

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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...

Gentlemen,

I have turned the Internet around and can´t find a solution to this.
I am using a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.5 in a Microsoft 2008 Domain environment. Our Proxy Server is Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010, formerly ISA.

On the...

The company I'm working for is doing some software development for Mac.  Ideally we would have a virtual machine that the developers can log into and test software and then roll it back to a previous snapshot.  We currently have Vista and XP...

My questions are pretty simple, so here we go. I have been reading and I keep finding contradicting information.

1. Can Mac OSX 10.3 read a NTFS formatted HD?
2. If not, would it be possible to format it half NTFS half whatever mac uses?
3....

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We are installing several Macintosh's for the first time onto our Windows 2003 Domain.

We are using Admitmac 6 to connect to the Active Directory.

One small Question.

How can I setup a Windows Share (CIFS) to open automatically...

i have recently gotten jaguar, mac os 10.2, and am very happy with it. however, i cannot now and never have been able to figure out how to defragment my hard drive. I do not have the norton utilities on cd, i have downloaded them and tried them...

I own a MacBook Pro (july 2010) and for the first time I tried to defrag it with Drive genius 3.1. This edition of Drive Genius looks for, what it calls 'exclusive access'. For which it restarts the mac. However, in my case, it restarts and...

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We have a Windows Server 2008 R2 running Remote Desktop Services. All our XP users connecting via RDP are showing the Time OK, but all of our MAC users are showing incorrect time. About 7 hours ahead.

I have Lync 2010 on our company.

PC clients are working great but i'm having problem getting Mac Lync 2011 to work.
I have tried automatic and manual network setup with different users that i know work with PC clients.

This is the log from...

The business unit I support just purchased an iMac. The iMac has Office 2011 loaded and the user needs to migrate Outlook email from their PC to their Mac. With the PC version of Outlook, they have able to use .OFT files. For instance, if they...

Any clue why Lion crashed.  I came back to my server and it says that the computer recovered from an error:


Feb  2 14:15:03 xserve kernel[0]: zalloc did gc
Feb  2 14:15:03 xserve kernel[0]: vm objects:      22297944
Feb  2 14:15:03 xserve...

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I'm running a single OSX Lion Server (10.7.2) in my 2003 Domain. After much frustration I finally reloaded OSX 10.7 and got OSX to Bind to Active Directory. I then updated to OSX to  10.7.2 and installed Admin Tools 10.7.3

Things...

Son's school accidentally deleted some files.  They are now booting to Norton and attempting to recover deleted files.  During the process, norton warns that if they recover to the Mac HD it may possibly overwrite other recoverable files.
...

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Im trying to upgrade regular 80Gb Samsung Drive on my Macbook Air first edition.

I have bought Toshiba MK1231GAL 120 Gb PATA 1,8" Zif drive

The drive is same type and connection as the previous Samsung Drive.

Macbook Air recognizes...

Can you virtualize Mac OS X Server on VMWare ESX? Does Apple have any restrictions in their licensing agreement?

Is it possible to install the Mac Operating System on an Intel base machine?

Rumour has it that there is a version used 'internally' at Apple. And isn't there an open source version named Darwin?

Thanks.

I'm looking for an OS X app similar to Windows' HyperTerminal.  I have XP setup in a VM on my MacBook Pro, but HyperTerminal doesn't give me any connection options other than TCP/IP.  I'll be connecting to a Tandberg video conferencing unit. ...

My client has an Intel iMac 20" 2.16 Ghz w/ a 250 Gig HDD. He had recently been getting a message that the startup disk was almost full but he didn't free up any space and now the system consistently gets stuck at the spinning circle on boot-up....

Hi,
 
 We have a Xerox WorkCentre 7335, I went ahead to disable the printing of the banner page by:

1.Press the "Log in/out" button on the control panel of the machine. Enter in your user ID and password.
2.Press the machine "Status"...

I downloaded the virtual machine for the blackberry playbook. I can get it to run in VMWare however, there is no wifi available.

What do I have to configure in VMWare to get the wifi to work?

I want to provide a link on the desktop to one of our linux samba shares, but we cannot correctly accomplish that. I want the user to have no interaction required, but just to be able to access that share with a simple click. Any ideas?

I have 2 macs that are continuously sending broadcasts to port 8612. they do not have Canon printers and I have removed the Canon printer drivers/software in an effort to kill the broadcasts. they continue. What is causing these broadcasts and...

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...

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I have a user running OSX 10.6.4 with a remote home directory on my windows server.  Every time she logs into her machine, the spotlight search will reindex her files and it takes about 5 hours which means she cannot use it for most of the...

Client moved from GroupWise to Exchange. I used Transend Migrator to convert the GroupWise Mail, Calendar and Tasks to .pst files then imported them to Outlook 2010. One user has a Mac running OS 10x. I installed Office 2011 but can't find an...

How do I set the Finder to show hidden files?  I know there are several system files that are hidden, and most importantly, my mp3 files on my iPod.  I'd like to be able to copy these files off my iPod, but since they are hidden, I can't select...

I have a client who runs a MAC, OS X.  The terminal service license on the client is expiring (for some reason it does not receive a permanent license).  I do have WINDOWS CALS available on my Windows 2003 Terminal Server.  On a windows client PC...

Our students have accounts in AD and they have a home folder assigned.  When they log on to the Macbook systems their home folder show on the menu bar.  When opening Word 2011 and creating a document they can save and it saves to their document...

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...

So I have a production server with 2 smb shares.
Server:
Dual Intel Xeon  L5420 2.5GHz quad core cpu's
16GB ram

1.6TB (RAID 10) on 15k SAS drives

Server 2008 R2 Enterprise (fully patched)


All the clients are Macs running 10.6.8....

In Apples OS-X Leapord, Boot Camp was used to create a 60GB NTFS partition on an internal 200GB hard drive. Vista was then installed on this newly created partition.  On attempt to start BitLocker, the BitLocker startup program said that the...

I am using a MacBook Pro running MAC OSX Lion.  I have created a VPN connection using System Preferences, Network.  VPN Connection is setup as Cisco IPSec.  I can connect fine using the VPN, but cannot access any other subnets on my network.  I...

I am trying to use xdebug to debug my php code using Eclipse (Helios SR2) with EPP PHP Bundle 1.3.2.20110301-1807 on my Mac running OS X Lion.

I'm using the default webserver, PHP 5.3.6 and Komodo's xdebug for x64 (the 5.3 version of the...

I have a new mac book pro new out of the box as of Monday. it is running OSX 10.6.6. I was adding it to an Active Directory domain. I have done this before. I went to system preferences, accounts, login options, network account server, join,...

On a Macbook running Mac OS X (10.4), I want to be able to close the lid and have the laptop stay on (not go into sleep or hibernate). I've found solutions such as http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070302210328928 and...

With files created on a MacBook running Leopard and Office Mac: 2011 on both machines, we are getting this error message when opening the file (from a shared volume) on another Mac that is running Snow Leopard and the same version of Word:
...

I just upgraded my mac to 10.7 Lion. Now it turns out they removed Java. So I reinstalled it (from the Lion/Java link on the Apple website), restarted the laptop, and still it doesn't work. The same applies to Safari. In Firefox, about:plugins, I...

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...

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I've just installed office for mac 2011 and continued to open outlook where-after it asked me if I wanted to import my account. I said yes as my previous Entourage 2008 account was connect fine to my exchange server (located...

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...

How do I enter the product activation key for Mac Office 2011?

I need to be sure that this program is registered and properly licensed.

Dear experts:

Hi!

I got a couple of iMacs in my office recently. Everytime I opened Safari, it asked for keychain access password.
I found it irritating. I wonder whether there is a good way to resolve the problem.

Thanks!

How do i add static routes to the OS X lion vpn server?  THere are a few subnets in my LAN and I need to add some static routes so my VPN clients can see those machines.

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...

From what I understand, Lion has changed the SMB protocol from the open source over Port 21 to an Apple-proprietary SMB protocol over Port 445.

Since the upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion, I am unable to scan-to-folder. My MFP does not have an...

So, up until oh.. today our office was getting along just fine and dandy with iCal. People were syncing on mobile devices, on their desktops, laptops and so forth. Mostly Snow Leopard, by the way, and one user who had already upgraded to Lion....

I recently purchased a new MacBook with OS version 10.5.4 and have no clue how to join it to my Active Directory Domain running Windows Server 2008.

I have 0 expierience with Macs and also need to configure Entourage 2008 for an email client....

I'm in  the process of setting up our 10.7.2 Lion server for remote iPad Mobile Device Management.  The server will sit behind a corporate firewall.  At the same time the machine is providing:
 
- Internal File Sharing
- Internal Policy...

I'd like to use Synergy for controlling a Vista PC from a Macbook.  I have Synergy installed on both and Synergy KM installed on the Macbook.  Vista is the server and the Macbook is the client (is that correct?).  The Vista server is started but...

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...

Getting ready to public face a lion server in order to do iPad policy/push.  Two Questions:

1) How do you turn off (and back on) unneeded ports on Lion server?

2) How do you determine which ports can/should be closed?

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.
...

What would be the best way to transfer all Mac Mail data including email, contacts and calendar to Windows PST file for use in Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007?

I'm having multiple, sometimes 6-10 Kernel panics a day after updating to Lion. It's been going on for a while. After weeks of troubleshooting I went to an Apple Store and the Genius there told me to reinstall the OS. I went ahead and did that,...

Hi Experts,
We have a Macbook that has an issue shutting down.  When telling it to shutdown, it goes to the solid color screen but the white circle seems to spin forever.  This happens on almost all attempts to shut down or restart lately.  Can...

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

Thanks.

I have roughly about 200 machines where users login as local users.  They are all admins to their machines.  

This is a pure Open Directory environment running on Mac OS X 10.7.2.  

Their local login name is firstname.lastname.  I would...

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...

Having issues with my 3Com switches and OS X Lion Server.

I have a 3Com 4500 50 port switch. It's configured with 3 VLANs, VLAN 1, VLAN 2, and VLAN 250. All VLANs have interfaces configured.
VLAN 1 interface 10.1.2.2/24
VLAN 2 interface...

I frequently receive .ics meeting invites from clients who use Outlook. Prior to upgrading to Lion and syncing my iCal to the cloud, I never had a problem simply clicking on the attached .ics file or dragging and dropping it onto my iCal....

Hi All,
I have a big question here and need a lot of help. I want to set up a server. I use mostly Macs, but have headless Windows computers here and there (everything is at the same location) to do other tasks. I want to know the benefits of a...

Is it possible to change the "Last Opened" file attribute/description on Mac OS X? If so, how would a user do it?

The OS X version is 10.4.11

Thank you,

Hi Experts,

I was hoping someone could help me out with some problems I've been experiencing on my Mac. It seems that my default settings (for any program) aren't saving. Here are a few of my troubles:

1. I would like to Bcc: myself every...

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How can I use TextEdit as the text editor for Mercurial, e.g. for inputting commit messages?

I tried setting, in ~/.hgrc:
editor = "/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit"

but, when I try "hg commit", I get:
*** CFMessagePort:...

I have a file server running windows server 2008 R2, and then there's a few MACs that are having problems searching on the server.  I've attached a picture for example.
I think the server drive is using NTFS, so could it be that Apple doesn't...

We have a Windows 2003 SBS server and use PCs and MACs. We recently purchased an iomega StorCenter StorCenter ix4-200d to act as our fileserver to take the load off our server.  All seemed fine until the MAC users said they had problems writing...

I have a new Macbook Air running OS: Mac OS X Lion version: 10.7.2.

I use MS Outlook for Mac 2011. But it has been a nightmare dealing with the email issues.

The biggest problem I have with Mac Outlook 2011 is that although I have the...

Can we run asp.net applications, IIS, C# applications in MAC OSX.

Is there anyway to get eyefinity to work ( like it does in windows ) in OSX Lion?  It would be great to be able to not have to dual boot into windows so i can run Eyefinity.  

Hello,
I have a Mac OS X Lion server set up and have it set so that from another Mac, I can go to Finder > Connect to Server and enter the hostname of the server and access the files on it remotely just as I would if I were on it's LAN.

I...

After migrating from Small Business Server 2003 Standard to Small Business Server 2011 one MAC on the network will not connect to the SMB shares unless we disable this registry entry.  Every morning it's enabled again.

Ideas on how to keep the...

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I need to connect a Macbook Pro (Mac OS X 10.4.9)  to a Windows 2003 PPTP VPN. The VPN connects fine but when I go to the network on the Mac I cannot see any of the computers on the network. When this same computer is directly connected to the...

When the mac is connected to the local LAN, and the user tries to login with her domain account into Windows XP running in Parallels, she gets this message:

"Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domain controller is down or...

I am trying to sync between three different devices. I currently have a Windows XP machine, and iPhone 4S and a new MacBook Pro. I cannot load the iCloud application onto my Windows XP desktop due to the fact that the software is not compatable...

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Last night, my little sister was using my computer for who knows what.  I opened my computer this morning and all of a sudden it's been so slow, it's unbearable. Starting my computer took 5 minutes for everythign to lead. everything i do...

I cannot exit full screen in parallel desktop on ma

A little stumped here:  We have a single Exchange 2010 server, UC certificate from Godaddy, and when we try to connect Snow Leopard Mail to a mailbox we constantly get prompted for username and password.  However Entourage 2008 EWS edition on the...

last week I upgraded the symantec antivirus on my managment server from 10 to 10.1, after that the managment server cannot see all the servers (clients) that were managed before? noting that some of the clients are in the same network as the...

Dear All

Is there in which i can enable remote management via terminal?

Thanks

Lyon

Hi,

1) It is in the enterprise network environment
2) It is related to the MacBook Air with the Mac OS X Lion
3) I install the Lotus Notes (version 8.5)
- It works well
-  The employee can receive and send her email, etc
4) There is a...

I have heard eBay is where you get the cheapest SSD drives for the Mac. Is this the best place to buy it? Are there any reasons to pay more somewhere else?

Would I violate my warranty if I installed it myself? Os can I bring the SSD drive to...

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...

Hi, I got this issue with my LG-NAS, I have used it for my Windows systems, and that works fine.
But I just got a MacBook Air, with OSX Lion, and it don't allow me to use network drives on the LG-NAS.
I can use the ajaXplorer - but I wold like...

I have a SanDisk Cruzer Micro 4 GB that I've been using for work (with Windows PCs, of course) for the past bit, and recently I bought a Mac Book Pro and am trying to figure out if there is a way to get it to work with it.  The thumb drive comes...