Recent content by El Alcahuete

make sure you have the newest version of the developer tools installed (Xcode 2.2). It enables the gcc compiler function in the terminal. Other than that I'm not sure what the problem would be, but I know when I upgraded to 10.4.4 and was still using an older version of Xcode it wouldnt allow...

Hi All. In the lab I work we have Netboot configured on 25 G5 Imacs (1 Gig Ram) using a Xserve g5 with 2 gigs of Ram. We've had a couple of issues with some software when booting from the netboot set, (mainly graphics apps like Photoshop and Quark), however those have been resolved, and the...

Maybe try using Mozilla Firefox. I have had so many problems with both Safari and IE that I just quit using them all together. Unfortunately I can't get rid of both of them, because unfortunately sometimes Firefox has some wierd quirks on certain pages but Safari and IE load them fine. If...

.exe files are executable files for Windows/DOS based machines. Depending on what application you are trying to install, there may be a Mac version of that and it would more than likely have the executable stored in a .dmg (Disk Image) file. You can run .exe under Virtual PC with Windows on a...

When a Workgroup manager user is a member of multiple groups, is there anyway to make it automatically log in to one of those groups on a normal basis as if it was the only group, however still have the option to log into the other group if desired? I thought that was an option at the login...

Hi guys. I have a dumb question, I thought I had it figured out but its not quite working right.... When a Workgroup manager user is a member of multiple groups, is there anyway to make it automatically log in to one of those groups on a normal basis as if it was the only group, however...

It would be a good idea to export your users and groups to an external location before upgrading. We did a practice upgrade install on another machine before actually implementing the upgrade, and the users and groups transferred fine, but when we upgraded the actual server, the users and...

I don't see the diradmin group, though I definitely see how that would work. The Directory Administrator account is on the admin group, GID 80. I am interested to hear other people's success/horror stories from doing the upgrade install from Panther to Tiger server, as for us it has been...

Hi. I am an admin for a lab with about 80 computers, 30 macs (some iMac G4s and a few iMac G5s, all running Panther), and 50 PCs . We recently upgraded our xserve from Panther server to 10.4 tiger using an upgrade installation, in order to avoid having to re-setup what has turned out to be a...