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    10.1 smb vs afp

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    Automatic sftp/ssh

    I've asked this many moons ago... but I have yet to figure it all out and do it... But simply, I would like to have one of my systems sftp to onther and grab a file at set times via a crontab entry... I have been having no luck and pure frustration trying to setup either host based or...
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    Technical Query about X Server

    After adding in some OS X workstations with-in our mostly "Windows" network... there have been serveral issues that are causing headaches.... When an X user opens or creates a new file on the network shares... a duplicate file is created with a "." in front of it... to the Mac user... this...
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    Is it or Is it not possible???

    The "remounting smb shares" Thread mentioned some things and a link to opensource.apple.com article mentioned some things.. but they all have the same bloody results... IS it or is it NOT going to be possible to have an SMB share mounted automaticly when you log-in or when clicking on an...
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    IE 5.2 for X

    I've been trying all morning to download IE 5.2 for X... if you go via the www.microsoft.com/mac route and click on Internet Explorer and then get IE... there is a link for 5.2 but slams you to a page that says > Sorry, but the page is unavailible ... This sucks... perhaps.. maybe not :-)...
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    smb and Samba

    I have had a lot of hands on recently with mounting Windows shares and CIFS shares from a Linux system running Samba. What I have ran into and observed, is that OS X's samba is / must be, so finely tuned for specificly Windows Shares. Shares from a Linux/Smb box mounts fine, appear to work...
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    10.1.5 pain in the neck!

    Does anyone know of an easy way to downgrade back to 10.1.4 ? I have had such an annoying problem after updating to .5 ... I use the same laptop (PowerBook G4) at work and at home... While at work I plug in my lan-line (100BT) and an external monitor..... When I go home I close the lid...
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    Looking for this .....

    I have been looking for an image application that does something like Kai's SOAP or Microsoft's Picture-it .... has that goo stuff that with a click put's a neat looking frame and what not around the image.... I'm having no luck finding anything like the sort for Mac OS X .... a ton for...
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    IE and targus.com

    I'm trying to figure out if it's just me.... but everytime I type ... www.targus.com in Internet Explorer, it bombs ! ??
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    SSL - Apache mod_ssl

    according to : http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/docs/mod_ssl.html the mod_ssl works on OS X .... ? I have been trying for ever now to do this with no luck.. But I have ran into another question realted to this... After doing the steps from the link above.... how does this take...
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    Consumer Reports is so behind !

    Browsing some links just now and found this... http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=144705&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=93177&bmUID=1014783429974 Just posted today..... and it would seem to me that those guys would touch up things and at least try to make their...
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    MetaFrame ?

    Is there a product like Citrix MetaFrame XPa for Mac OS X Server ? something that would allow a windows box running a client to work on a Mac Desktop .. in the same manor that Citrix works for Windows 2000/xp ? Would be so Kewl if such a thing was around !
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    sftp non-interactive batch mode

    I am having a hard time creating a script that needs to grab a file from a remote system using sftp .... non - interactively ... -b [batch file] works great... but the authentication, I can not get automated.... Any ssh Guru's have any tips or knowhows to get sftp to connect and...
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    10.1.3 Observation....

    After installing and rebooting... I was looking around to see what all was done... can not find much other than the application fixes and what not.. but I have noticed one very nice thing overall ... and it just downed on me ... I have seen less of the Color Wheel .. I mean much much less of...
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    Perl And Serial I/O

    I'm just now dabbing around in perl , making a few archiving scripts and administrative tools... but I'm working on a project that involves a little I/O... I do most of everything now on OS X boxes, but this project I'm thinking about using an Intel Box running Linux... Because Industrial...
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    XFree86 and Fink

    I've been playing around... but it's a tad confusing to me ... to be frank... But, I first installed XDarwin ... cranked it up as rootless... it works .. but basic and ugly WM... So I thought I could use fink to install gnome or something... But Fink ask's prompts for a choose of...
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    About Web Browsers....

    ( I did not want to continue on the previous thread ) I have a major concern that has a large part to do with Web Browser quality and speed in OS X. As an IS during the day and Mac Loving Addict at night... I do try to find ways to use Macs in the work place... Of every mac that has been...
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    Perl scripts not working right?

    I started moving scripts I made on a linux system over to OS X thinking I can use a few OS X systems we have, in place of the linux systems for data archiving and other tasks... (Slam a firewire drive up and copy a months data to it , lot more simple than doing so in Linux...) But.... I have...
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    What Could This Be???

    A system of mine sendmail's me a copy of the system.log each morning before overwritting it with the new days log info.... I monitor the logs, and now a new entry is showing up every so often and I have no idea what it is, and if something bad is going on ... the lines are like the following...
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    TCP/Ehternet Lock Up II

    For the history = http://www.macosx.com/showthread.php?threadid=6305 I have realized something that may be involved with one of my systems odd TCP/Ethernet drops... Since the first lock up, I had the system mail me the system.log just before the "Daily" script is ran and the log file...
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