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OS X Server network sync issues
I've been running an Open Directory environment for over a year now, and this issue has never, ever stopped plaguing my network. Users constantly have syncing errors, seemingly due to permissions ...
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Aborted localhost http requests — how to troubleshoot?
I've got a webserver running on localhost (not the one built into OSX -- a different, proprietary webserver). I do most of my web app dev there, refreshing the browser to reload, etc. This has ...
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How should I use VPN on a Mac to prevent compromise before the VPN starts?
As most experienced users will have heard, using a Mac in a public untrusted Wi-Fi can be potentially harmful. A tool like Firesheep1 has made it very easy to intercept unencrypted communication.
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Can't access internet
Suddenly, a couple of days ago, I have started to have major problems accessing internet through my home network, with my MacBook Pro Mid 2012 (non-retina) running Mountain Lion.
I connect to the ...
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Why does PF stop ipfw from forwarding in Mountain Lion?
Disclaimer: I know, ipfw is now deprecated. However, as I'm yet to find a functional way of forwarding packets using PF, I would like to keep using ipfw.
What I'm trying to do is forward all my ...
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HTTP Get is not working stable after Netboot
I am booting a Netboot Image with a MacMini 5.1, after the system is up a shell script calls a server via curl.
At the moment the Internet connection is up and running. I verify that doing a ping to ...
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Wake on demand: can't access through internet
I'm using Wake on Demand (not WOL) to access my mac remotely. I can wake it from the sleep state only if I am on the same network using SSH, SFTP or HTTP. I have managed to connect from internet using ...
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Very long login times in Mac OS X
I am experiencing an issue with OS X 10.8.3, where it takes a very long time to login. It seems like it has something to do with which network I am connected to.
Explanation of the issue:
I get ...
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Check if Network Accounts are avalible
We have a domain running Microsoft Active Directory and in that domain there is a number of Mac computers running Leopard and later. Sometimes the users are met by a red dot at the login screen, ...
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DLNA via bridged interfaces - OS X
Setup is as follows:
Primary network is via en0 (192.168.1.0/24)
Secondary network is via en1 and contains a DLNA server (192.168.2.0/24). This is 'private' network containing only en1 and the DLNA ...
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How do I remotely wake my Mac over Wi-Fi?
I am running a server on my Mac mini at home (using the OS X Server app). I would like to access my home network using it's VPN server, but I understand that I can only do this while it's awake. I ...
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get a notification when my machine is pinged
I'd like to be able to be notified in any way (sound, notification, growl, etc) when someone pings my machine.
Is that possible?
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“Airplane Mode” in OS X. Alternative command for `rfkill`?
This question is an exact duplicate of this post from
superuser.exchange.com. I believe this is a valid question for both of sites
and hope I am not (if any) violating stackexchange policies.
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SSH request timeout every time
I am trying to access a storage space we have at work via ssh but I get a timeout every single time (Mac OS 10.7.5 - Terminal).
I checked firewalls, settings, even turned off Little Snitch, and port ...
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Networking dead after a disk/permissions repair
After a strange string of events, I'm left with broken networking on my iMac (21" i3, 10.6).
It started on Fri. when a co-worker could not get jobs from this iMac, they were saying he didn't have ...
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Performance monitoring tools for connected devices
I am looking for something on a Mac OS using which I can monitor the performance of upto 8-10 devices connected to a MacBook using the Hot-Spot or directly via USB, etc.
Is there any single/multiple ...
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Policy on users of Internet sharing on Mac OS X Mountain Lion
I have an ADSL Modem directly connected to my Mac 10.8.2 in bridge mode, the PPPoE connection is initiated by Mac and internet is shared to user computers / mobiles using WiFi.
Question:
Can i limit ...
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Can't ping a linux server with MacOSX. Software related
I'm having an huge problem with my Mac, from months.
I have at home a linux server, a CuBox. It's running Archlinux, running fine. Everything works.
But the Mac can't ping the CuBox.
I will paste ...
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Restricting Applications to Specific Interface For Added VPN Security
I am trying to find a way (either software or using terminal) to bind certain applications to my VPN interface (untun0). I have looked at every firewall solution available for OS X 7 and none of them ...
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SSH connection hangs out at SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT recieved
I tried to connect to a server with ssh, but it failed. I tried UseDNS no, update OpenSSH with MacPorts. But it didn't work.
Using user@ip -v I get the following output
OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r ...
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“df” command making network requests?
I was watching Little Snitch for another process, and noticed df was making requests to various servers. I thought df was only for checking free disk space locally, but it appears to be doing more ...
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IP address on network cameras change preventing remote access
I have 5 network cameras on my network. I manually added settings in my Airport Extreme router for port forwarding. However the IP addresses change often, preventing remote access. Is there a way to ...
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Another DNS name resolution trouble!
The problem
I have OS X Mountain Lion, latest updates installed.
Randomly after boot, I have no network connectivity from a user perspective. Web browsers are unable to display pages, no mail to ...
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Mount network volume as local drive for data recovery
Is it possible to mount a network volume so it's seen by OS X and data recovery tools as a local drive? Or are there any data recovery tools on OS X that work with network volumes? I'm using OS X ...
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How to determine which traffic goes over the PPTP VPN?
I setup a PPTP VPN on mac os x lion, on the advanced tab I do not have the send all traffic over VPN connection checked. I only want traffic to a specific server connected to go through the vpn, ...
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How can I disable the firewall on OS X after forgetting how I set it?
I have enabled an option on my mac to ask for permission every time I open an network application, But I can't seem to find out how to turn it off.
Where would I disable the below dialog?
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Configuring predicatable IPv6 addresses for laptop client
I recently set up IPv6 for my home network via a tunnel. I have a /48 subnet and have assigned manual IPv6 addresses to my stationary macs. I would like to set up my laptops to get a dynamic IPv6 ...
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Ethernet Working but No Internet Connection
In my office, nearly everybody uses Mac and we have just only one Windows 7 system. Just this morning, all the Mac systems (10.8.2) could not connect to the internet but could connect to the network, ...
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Cannot Resolve Host
For some reason my system will not resolve hosts added to /etc/hosts. If I add an entry:
127.0.0.1 somename.dev
It won't resolve. If I add this, however:
127.0.0.1 somename.dev
::1 somename.dev
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Use a remote display as a local one
I was wondering if I could use a display connected to another machine (Linux Mint XFCE) to extend my OSX desktop. Is this possible, and if so, how?
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Stop Finder/OSX From creating TemporaryItems and .apdisk on Network shares
I'm looking for some way to configure OSX to prevent it creating .apdisk files and .TemporaryItems folders on network shares.
These are created any time OSX accesses a shared folder on the network.
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Can OS X be configured to avoid seeing a WiFi log in window when joining some networks?
In Mountain Lion (10.8), when you connect to a wireless network with a default login page - a special window pops up showing that page. This pop-up is set to always in front, and also doesn't store ...
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What OS X signal strength test apps exist to measure Wi-Fi networking?
Is there a way I can get more details on the strength of my Wi-Fi signal?
I'm looking for either an app I can download or a system command that I can run in terminal that will expose the noise of ...
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How to make Time Machine backups over network without OS X server?
At our institute, we have several Macs (from 10.6 to 10.8) but not one is running a server version. In the one running 10.8 there are 4.5 TB of hard-drives from which 2 x 2 TB are raided together ...
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How to choke network preformance on OS X [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to simulate slow internet connections on the mac
For testing purposes I would like to choke the performance of the network on my OS X 10.8.2 machine.
I have ...
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I am downloading something with 300~1200kb/s? Any help?
Today I noticed that my system is downloading something and the download speed is around 300~1200kb/s.
I tried everything that I could thing of... installed Little Snitch 3 and I did not see anything ...
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Why are 2 Mac Pros on a separate subnet directly connected seeing very low transfer rates?
I have two Mac Pros and as one is primarily utilized for storage, I thought connecting the two directly under a different subnet would be a worthwhile endeavor that would directly transfer data ...
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Configuring telephone app [closed]
I am trying to configure the telephone app available on Mac app-store. I figured that I'll need a SIP account, so I searched on google and found sip2sip.info (It's free). I've registered there.
I've ...
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How to force Thunderbolt-ethernet connection when switching networks without restarting computer?
I have a thunderbolt to ethernet cable on a MacBookPro Retina on Lion.
Sometimes the thunderbolt to ethernet connection does not work. It seems to occur when I switch network locations (e.g., I move ...
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How to modify the transmit queue length (buffer) of the network interface
How can I set the transmit queue length for a network interface on OS X? On linux the command would be:
ifconfig en0 txqueuelen 5
but OS X doesn't recognize txqueuelen as a valid option (nowhere ...
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Ip blocked since I updated my Mac to Mountain Lion
Since I've upgraded my mac from lion to mountain lion, the ip 5.9.31.48 (api.shellycloud.com) appear to be down (ping said that "Host is down"). So I think that there is somewhere a firewall rule that ...
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No internet access on MacBook Air, though I can connect to networks
(Edited after rebooting everything again.)
I'm unable to get my MacBook Air (mid-2011 model, running OS X Lion 10.7.4) connected to the internet. I've tried to get online through tethering both an ...
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How to view connect request of application in OS X
I'm novice in OS X (mountain-lion) world, and learning how to use this system.
Now, I have a problem about network. I run a application that try to connect its update server, but I got "connect to ...
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How to open a port on MacOS X
I previously had Memcache running on my localhost/127.0.0.1 port 11211. Unfortunately, I rebooted my computer and now port 11211 isn't open and I don't know the command to open this port.
Can someone ...
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why doesn't netstat -a show all listening services?
MBP ML (10.8.1):
I have a copy of apache httpd running on port 12000.
Yet, netstat -a | grep 12000 shows nothing. Adding -i does not help.
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User accounts cannot browse web
I have an environment with multiple iMacs (OS X 10.7.4). Every iMac has an administrative account and several user accounts. These accounts are the same across all the machines. To browse the web, ...
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How to determine what process has opened a network connection?
Whereas on Windows it's possible to use Netstat -b, which tells you what connections are open and what program has each one open, on the Mac it seems that Netstat does not allow this.
Is there ...
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Mountain Lion networking bottleneck once download starts
I've noticed that with Mountain Lion (running on a mid-2011 iMac w/SSD) that once a download has started in Safari, or iTunes or Finder (AFP), etc. that any subsequent network activity is severely ...
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Does OS X have a builtin DHCPv6 client?
Upon testing a within a standalone network with just a DHCPv6 server on it and several client computers with different operating systems, OS X 10.7.4 fails to automatically obtain an IPv6 address from ...
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Connection timeout when sharing internet with password
I have a MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion 10.8. I am connecting to the Internet via a USB Internet Key. I enabled internet sharing via WiFi.
My friend has a MacBook Pro with Lion 10.7.
When I enable ...
