So there’s an incredibly annoying and puzzling behavior in Mac OS X with regards to duplicate computer names on the LAN. Most Mac Admins probably know what I’m talking about. Here’s the deal: Let’s say you have a Mac Pro on your home network named Spanky and it has an IP address of 192.168.1.25. Let’s [...]
I recently wondered aloud about the benefits of MacFUSE-supplied ssh access in a web development environment. A reader asked for a follow-up in the comments to that post, so I thought I’d just do a quickie today. After writing the article, I tried out MacFUSE and the sshfs extension to that bundle. This combo facilitates [...]
Our home account server — the one all our network users’ home accounts live on — mounts via NFS. I’ve already mentioned one of the improvements with regards to this behavior in Leopard, namely, autofs. But I just discovered another. See, that NFS mount I’m always talking about, well, it’s a Linux RAID — Fedora [...]
I’m not a web programmer by any means. But a component of the department I work in deals with the web from an artistic standpoint, and a subset of that group does, in fact, do programming. We have web programming classes. Recently, one of the teachers of one of those classes made the charge that [...]
The founding article for this blog — indeed, the very reason for TASB’s existence — was a little post called “Tiger Beefs” in which I ranted for a few thousand words about everything I disliked about Tiger. It’s been over two years since that faithful first post, and Apple has just released the follow-up to [...]
I’m still swamped, buried under the avalanche of work that is the direct result of endless delays to the renovation of our department. Nevertheless, I find myself with little to do today. Or, I should say, little I’m actually able to do. Today’s delay, from the “I can’t catch a break to save my life” [...]
Typically, when you set up a Mac client to bind to a Mac server using Directory Access, there is one lone entry in the Security settings that is checked by default, and that is the “Disable clear text passwords” setting. This seems like a prudent default, and I always leave it checked. I assume that [...]
It’s been quite some time since I’ve been able to post anything of any substance. This has a lot to do with the fact that I’ve been super busy relocating our department and participating in the gut renovation of our lab. This has been an immensely stressful process, but in the end I find that [...]
Hello out there, oh loyal, faithful readers. All three of you. Just wanted to pop in and say hi. It’s been a solid month since I’ve posted anything, and that’s pretty unusual. I’ve even stopped responding to comments, which is almost unheard of. Unfortunately it’s been somewhat out of my control. Both work and life [...]
So today, after downgrading my master server to 10.4.7, I kept getting an error on my replica. So I decided to reset the replica by demoting it to a “Standalone” role, and then re-promoting it to the “Replica” role. But even after doing this, the error message persisted. The message was telling me to check [...]