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If I am not mistaken FTP is not supported anymore, too insecure, eg sends your password in the clear over the network etc. However, if you enable "Remote Login" in sharing, you can use SFTP which works just as well as FTP. SFTP stands for secure FTP and therefore all the information you transfer between computers is encrypted while in transit over the ...
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After enabling File Sharing on one machine, it will give you the name of the machine as used to connect to it. Next, go to the other computer, and open Finder. You should see the name of the other computer in the sidebar. If you don't, then press Go -> Connect to Server, and connect to the other machine by the name that was given in the Sharing window.
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There are known issues (Apple-created bugs) with several revisions of OS X 10.5 Leopard Client and AFP file access, including permission problems and in certain cases even the potential to lose or overwrite files completely.
There is no work-around for these bugs, they are in the operating system itself and can be reproduced on 2 freshly-formatted & ...
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Before Mac OS X, the Mac OS used ‘forked’ files, which have two components: a data fork and a resource fork. The Mac OS Standard (HFS) and Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) disk formats support forked files. When you move these types of files to other disk formats, the resource fork can be lost.
With Mac OS X, there is a mechanism called “AppleDouble” that allows ...
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The option has been removed from the GUI in OS X 10.7 however you can enable it with a few commands.
Here is a good write up on how to do it.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20088844-263/managing-ftp-services-in-os-x-lion/
Summary of the link above:
To Load:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist
Then to start and stop ...
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In my experience there is no quickfix way to get windows and mac machines to always be visible in the others networks list.
The best thing you can do is enable Samba filesharing on your mac, then when you want to connect you just type smb:\\Jonathan's MacBook Pro (minus the quotes) into the address bar in Explorer (or into the run dialogue).
To Enable SMB ...
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Another issue is you might not be in the same workgroup. To fix this go to
System Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> WINS:
Make sure his Windows box is set the same. What OrangeBox suggested must be done as well.
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The Synology NAS supports a Network Recycle bin, but only for SMB volumes. Therefore if you want to make use of it from your Mac, you need to access the share via SMB and not AFP. This can be enabled from the Control Panel under Win/Mac/NFS.
The Synology by itself fully supports Time Machine, and can act as a Time Capsule. Most of the documentation on the ...
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AFP works over the internet assuming that port 548 is not blocked by your ISP. If you are using a private IP behind a NAT you'll need to forward port 548 to the computer that you want to connect to on the router. Using DHCP makes this much more difficult. If the DHCP requirement is so that your computer can join other networks easily, you might want to ...
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The simple act of clicking the "File Sharing" check box will allow the following things to happen.
Any user account can connect to the machine and access their own home folder, as well as the public folders on any other user account.
Any administrator users can access the boot disk.
The list of shared folders in the preference pane is for fine-tuning ...
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This is so that you can load configuration profiles. Say you want to set up a campus network where all the base stations have the same network name, admin password (or printing password or iCloud accounts).
This will allow you to make a copy of a configuration and load it from iOS to a computer or the other way for standardized setup.
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… can I tell it not to create these files?
The proposed cron job
As your file server serves multiple users, the short answer is:
you should allow and not schedule removal of ._ files.
For a file service that is without support for things such as extended attributes:
File service
If you configure the server to prevent creation of ._ files:
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Apple has terminated all Mobile Me services in Summer 2012, data stored on Mobile Me servers has been deleted in the meantime (or at least is not accessible any more).
There was an initiative to archive public content, you may find what you are looking for there.
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It turned out that the issue was indeed different UIDs though the usernames were the same.
From the Apple Support Communities link:
borbye:
The first user that is established on an OSX disc is given UID number
501. Normally next user is given UID 502. In my case I could not import my existing user during first run with my new MB Air. Had to
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Just to add to the first answer, yes you can use it as a shared drive (I do) It will also work with PC's not just Macs, so for example if someone came round your house with a Dell laptop you could give them access to it.
This is a great way to share photos with friends, and also a good way to back up a PC as you will not be able to use Time Machine.
To ...
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The approach we have used is a simple shared folder containing an Aperture library. I can report that this solution is ok but fragile -- permissions on the shared folder need to be fixed every so often.
Dropbox would certainly work in your case, but I suspect that you'll need substantial storage space, which would be rather expensive. If cost weren't ...
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Back to My Mac (iCloud)
If you're running Lion and have an iCloud account, you can use Back to My Mac. With Back to My Mac, your server will show up in the Finder's sidebar under Shared, just like it would if you were on the same local network.
This solution does not have a web interface, but I personally prefer connecting to my file servers the same way ...
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It depends on the file system used by your external hard drive. Most likely, the file system is FAT which allows both Mac and PC to read from and write to it, so you would be fine to just plug it into your Mac.
It could however be NTFS which is Microsoft file system that PCs can read and write to but Macs can only read. In this case, you'll still be able ...
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Question 1 answer;
To delete an app, simply go to the iTunes sidebar, and find where it
says 'Apps'.
Click the apps window, and it will load a list of all the
applications that are stored of your computer.
Now the next step is to do a quick search for 'angry gran', in the
search field, in the top right of the window.
When you have found the offending app, ...
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The FTP server in Mountain Lion is still there, just not part of the GUI. You can re-enable it using the following in Terminal:
sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist
To disable, do unload instead of load.
*The FTP root directory is your Users home folder.
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We have had a very similar (if not the same) problem ever since we upgraded our server to Windows 2008 R2. (WinServer 2003 was fine.) However, the main symptom we encountered, is somewhat different:
We work in a mixed Mac / PC environment. Desktop operators work on Mac only, whereas our backend services are Windows based. Also some manual operations are ...
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You can solve this problem using group permissions. What you want is to have a file mode creation mask set such that group read, write, and execute permissions are automatically set for each file when a file is created. This can be accomplished using the umask command inside your startup script such as ~/.bash_profile. To set rw permissions on all files, rwx ...
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OS X has two main levels of file-level credential control:
users
groups
Right now, it sounds like your wife has "ownership" of the dropbox folder, much to your frustration.
To rectify this, you will want to use the Users and Groups preference panel to either
(if everyone who uses the computer can have access to the dropbox folder) proceed to the last ...
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This is a broadcast packet issue.
Bonjour (and a number of similar broadcast protocols) operate by sending an informational packet to 'everybody.' When your router (Airport) - and the Mac - receive packets, they open them, observe the recipient, and forward it to the appropriate location. This is where things get tricky, because when a broadcast packet is ...
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Internet sharing on MacPro1 is acting as a router and doing NAT. The protocol used for discovery of other Macs on the 192.168.2.x network probably doesn't cross routers, which is normally what you want on a local network. The best way to fix this is to put an Ethernet switch or hub between MacPro1 and AirportExpress. Then plug both MacPro1 and MacPro2 into ...
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Graphviz should do the trick. It uses a text file in a markup language called dot. I believe there are a number of apps on the Mac that can create and export/import that format, but otherwise it's a plain text format and can be edited with any text editor.
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In addition to AFP, and SMB, both of which are reasonably non-unixy, you can also use NFS.
AFP also has issues in Lion with other OSs using netatalk libraries.
NFS is very well supported on Linux.
See this for a comparison: NFS, AFP, SMB... Advantages and drawbacks on a Mac OS system
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Simply use the File Sharing option in the System Preferences.
It will give you the option to share using AFP or SMB, both of which are supported in Linux.
You didn't specify which Linux distribution you are using specifically, but most graphical distributions such as Ubuntu have SMB support out of the box (just go to Places->Network and find your share). ...
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To disable Kerberos, open Terminal at Mac mini and enter the following command:
sudo sso_util remove -k -a username -p password -r YOUR.KERBEROS.REALM
Replace username, password with the user name and password of the Open Directory administrator (user/password with admin rights on Mac mini). It seems that YOUR.KERBEROS.REALM is "LKDC".
The Open Directory ...
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