I have ubuntu as main OS. I installed virtual box with a windows xp guest. How can I share files between the two OSs, and how do I connect to internet in the XP guest?
The Internet Sharing feature in Mac OSX (available at the "sharing" System Preferences panel) seems to be somewhat limited, it does not have the ability to use WPA when sharing through AirPort for instance.
Is there a simple software alternative that will use a MacBook Pro built in AirPort card to create a local wi-fi access point?
I have an Xserve running OSX Server 10.4.11. It has Apple File Protocol enabled to share a few dozen sharepoints on the local network.
I would occasionally like to get a listing of who is currently connected to the server (easily done with Server Admin), but I would like to know which sharepoints they have mounted on their local computer.
I accidentally renamed the username of my account on my Mac (running OSX 10.4.11) and tried renaming back to what it was but now I have two accounts (the one I want to use which has all my preferences, applications, mail boxes, etc., and the new one).
Is it possible to copy my settings from my original account into this new user name? When I open my computer, it defaults to this new account, and I cannot gain access to all my work documents, mail settings etc.
I'd like my Option and Alt keys to switch places in certain applications. Is there any way to change the modifier keys according specific applications in Mac OS X?
Alternatively; is there "an application for that"?
We have an osx desktop Environment with nfs shares and using linux/vm´s as nfs-clients
We want to encrpyt the nfs-data/directories on our os-x machines.
Is that possible? Apple´s File-Fault is using kerberos, but file-fault data isnt´ accessible via nfs. Is there a possibility to use file-vault anyway or should we use truecrypt volumes?
How do we setup truecypt/filevault + nfs?
I am unable to run psql with my normal Mac user account in Terminal session, although I can do it using the postgres service account). When I enter the command psql mydb and type my password, I get the following message:
WARNING: password file "/Users/beh/.pgpass" has group or world access; permissions should be u=rw (0600) or less
But I cannot find .pgpass.
How do I set up and add users to my PostgreSQL 9.1 database on Mac OSX 10.6.8?
Is it possible to set per-application volume levels under Mac OS X?
I would like to be able to turn the volume down on Entourage for new emails, but leave everything else at a pleasant level, adjusting media playback volumes via iTunes or the DVD app.
Hi, im trying to make a single terminal window appear on every space but the built in spaces only allow to configure this per application basis. This makes it more or less useless for terminals if you have multiple terminal windows on multiple spaces.
DesktopManager seams to have solved this for older versions of Mac OSX.
I have a Canon PIXMA MX700 connected by ethernet. When I first bought it I was using OSX 10.4, and scanner-initiated scanning worked fine. After upgrading to 10.6, neither scanner-initiated or scanning from MP Navigator EX works with the firewall enabled. The firewall lists exceptions for three applications:
Canon IJ Network Scan Utility.app
Canon IJ Network Scanner Selector.app
MP Navigator EX 1.0.app
I get no further blocked warnings, and /var/log/appfirewall.log lists nothing for today (my latest attempt to use it).
I've recently acquired a mac mini server. Would like to migrate my existing (regular OS X) account to the server. I've created a user with same short name on the server side, but can't use it from my client for some reason.
Also it is not clear how to add a machine to Workgroup Manager. Would you have a good resource/article to read to find out how to do this properly?
I'm on Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard). What's the best way to find a folder for which I'm not sure of the full name?
For example, I know the folder name I want is like:
"farm-animal-type"
But the full name may be something like:
"farm-animal-type-horse"
On Windows, I would just use the find tool through Windows Explorer.
The default Emacs on Mac OSX, 22.1, appears to have some problems with the info/help stuff.
When you hit C+h i, it says:
Can't find the Info directory node.
It works in AquaEmacs, but I downloaded the 23 version of emacs precompiled binaries from here and I still have the same problem.
I'd like to have today's date displayed in the menu bar alongside the day-of-the-week and the time (i.e. Mon, Dec 31, 9:59 PM). Is there a way to do this? I'm on OSX 10.5.
EDIT: I found one suggestion, but couldn't make it work...
I've remotely installed VirtualBox OSE on my Gentoo box at home. I have everything set up and ready for the OS.
However all the documentation I've read seems to say that you can only use the PUEL version in order to get remote access during installs - does anyone know if it's possible to do similar with the OSE but using VNC? Links to documentation or tutorials would be welcome, apparently my Google-Fu is failing me, if it's out there.
Thanks.
I've tried to burn a DVD in Mac OSX, it failed, and I was left with an Untitled DVD item in the navigation bar of Finder. It looks like this:
How do I get rid of it?
Is there a way to send a message to all logged-in users on an OSX (Snow Leopard) server? Sometimes I need to reboot the server and would like to give everyone a notice of the impending reboot that gives them five minutes to log-out before I proceed.
In Mac OSX 10.7, you cannot have a guest user if you encrypt the entire drive. An alternative is to create a psuedo-guest user. One of the downsides is that the feature where the guest user is restored to original state no longer exists.
How do I write a script that restores the User Template found in /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj?
I would also have to figure how to activate this script either at login or on logout.
How can I make Vista home premium access OSX hard drive? and the other way around? I'd like to transfer files via direct ethernet.
Plugging in an ethernet cable makes both computers recognize a network, but not the other device. Each firewall is turned off, but no luck.
Edit: I don't see Windows Sharing in the Service Column.
Can the utility "Installation Monitor" from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tools for administrative tasks be used on newer OS's, specifically, Windows Server 2008 R2.
The main thing I am concerned about is it may error will not track things correctly without letting me know that that it errored due to how Windows has changed between 2000 and today.
If that is not the correct tool to use to monitor what a application is writing to the hard drive and registry, can you recommend me what I should use instead?
If I'm running a 64-bit OS (Windows XP x64 edition) and a program has both a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version, what are the advantages of using the 64-bit version? Will it be faster?
My laptop has 4 gigs of DDR2 RAM and I am currently using a 32bit windows 7 OS. Will I notice any performance difference if I upgrade to 64bit or does all the benefits of X64 start at 5GB of RAM?
I have the different versions of the same application added several times in the dock but the application icon and title is identical.
I cannot change the icon or the file name because they are recreated each time I rebuild.
OSX is displaying only the application name as a tooltip not the path.
Is there a solution for this problem?