Hot answers tagged sharing
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Here is what I do, where I share one appleid for purchases among 3 family members. Number one, only use the appleid for purchases just for purchases. then, each member should have a separate iCloud account with a unique appleid for mail, contacts, iCal, etc syncing. Then, on all devices set the appleid for the store to the purchase id and on the individual ...
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Here are two very simple solutions made possible by automation tools baked right in Mac OS X : AppleScript & Automator.
AppleScript
You can use AppleScript to make a a very simple app that will mount your shares without opening any new Finder windows.
Open AppleScript editor and put this script :
tell application "Finder"
mount volume ...
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The Facebook integration wasn't available when this question was asked - it was added in OS X 10.8.2 in September 2012.
To activate Twitter and Facebook sharing, you must first configure at least one Twitter and / or Facebook account via System Preferences -> Mail, Contacts & Calendars -> Add Account -> Twitter (or Facebook). Once you've ...
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From
Macworld:
Keeping tabs on who’s listening
The Sharing pane in iTunes’ preferences will tell you how many users are connected to your shared library. But what it won’t tell you is what they’re actually listening to. To find out, open Activity Monitor (/Applications/Utilities), highlight the iTunes entry, and then click on the Inspect button in ...
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You have two questions here. ( and ~ is short for the /Users/current_user folder)
1) For apps only to show up in your account - move them to ~/Applications
2) If a user is not part of the Administrators group then that user cannot install apps in /Applications which is the normal place for shared Applications. Non admin users can install apps in their ...
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In order for a Mac to create a local Wi-Fi network, it needs to have a wired Internet source. So what you need to do is:
Connect an Ethernet cable from the router (the wired source) to a Mac.
On that Mac, choose System Preferences > Sharing.
Select Internet Sharing.
Choose Ethernet from the “Share your connection from” pop-up menu.
Select AirPort in the ...
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Here's our setup:
Computers:
iMac x 1 (wife's primary computer & used by the kids)
MacBook Air x 1 (my primary computer)
MacBook Pro x 1 (wife's)
iOS Devices:
iPhone 4 x 2 (wife's and mine)
iPhone 3G x 1 (Younger Daughter's, used in airplane mode)
iPod Touch x 1 (Older Daughter's)
iPad 2 x 1 (mine but can be used by all when it's at home)
Apple TV ...
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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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The app can do that can do what you want is Apple Remote Desktop. You can drag&Drop files from desktop to desktop and get and push clipboards from and to other computer.
The best set is to have 2 monitors (having the remote desktop fullscreen-ed), so that you can stare at the two computers at the same time. If you don't, you will have a window with the ...
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Honestly I don't see any benefit in removing the Twitter/Facebook libraries. It may break the installed version as well as lead to problems when upgrading to 10.8.1 etc.
If you want to be sure that nothing you do is ever ending up in Twitter or Facebook just don't log in to these services in Preferences.
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You can define what you want to see before the $ in your terminal by modifying the file ~/.profile.
For example if you add to the file ~/.profile the following line:
# h is the host name, w the complete path
export PS1="\h:\w$ "
you will see the host name and the complete path of the current directory:
host_name:current_directory_path$
You can also ...
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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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Here's a shell script that turns off the services, but I'm working on finding a more direct solution:
#!/bin/sh
osascript << HERE
tell application "System Preferences" to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
click menu item "Sharing" of menu "View" of menu bar 1
delay 2
tell window "Sharing" to ...
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OS X uses Bonjour to allow you and your computer to discover services offered by compatible networked devices.
Amongst Finder's uses of Bonjour: show which other devices are able to share their volumes with you. Simply browsing the list of computers will not make any significant connection.
If you choose to access the shared data of a computer other than ...
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You need to make changes to the router that makes your internet connection.
Basically, there are 3 steps you need to complete:
Create your website - you have done this
Enable Sharing on the machine hosting it
At this point you have done all you can on your Mac
Get your external IP address, and configure your router to pass through port 80 (or whatever ...
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You should be able to do this using shared libraries, which would probably be the easiest way and not cause any problems with permissions or anything like that, however it would probably end up with number of separate libraries rather than just having a one large library.
UPDATE:
Having had a bit of a look into the shared libraries feature it could be a ...
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For some reason Apple disabled personal web sharing from your ~/username/Sites folder in Mac OS X 10.5. To turn it back on, edit /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf and look for the following:
#
# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its ...
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My family's system consists of using a shared apple ID to buy from iTunes and the Mac App Store. Each member then has their own iCloud account based on a unique email address for Mail & Notes, Contacts, and Calendars.
On the iPhone: everyone should enter the shared apple ID under the Settings/Store/Apple ID section for purchases. Each user can then ...
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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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Easy way: create multiple user accounts on your Mac, a tutorial can be found here.
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Hard way: create different iTunes libraries for your user account. You'll need to:
Quit iTunes
Hold down the Option key and then launch iTunes
Click the "Create Library..." button on the dialog that is displayed
Once you've created the different libraries, you need ...
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Yes you can. Since the Time Capsule is an Airport Extreme with an internal hard drive it's relatively easy to convert it into a wireless to wired bridge assuming you already have it set to hook up to the wireless network.
Open up Airport Utility and start Manual Setup on your Time Capsule
Go to the Internet section
Under Internet Connection be sure ...
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You can do this using the builtin ipfw firewall (it is not the default firewall in Snow Leopard, but it is still included). You can configure from the command line, the exact rule set you need depends on your other requirements, but the specific rule in question would be something like:
# allow AFP (port 548) traffic from 10net
/sbin/ipfw add allow tcp from ...
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You should try the transfer in FTP only because FTP sets it's own "MTU". If this sends files very quickly, you are looking at a TCP fragmentation issue, i.e., you are sending TCP packets too large for the router to handle on it's own. I imagine you can tweak the Mac network settings to force fragmentation to 1500 or less per packet.
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Radio interference? How many other wifi spots are nearby? How many are using the same channel as you? Does this only happen with AFP or does it happen with other protocols as well (e.g., HTTP, CIFS, etc)? Are you using A/B/G/N?
What's the memory usage look like on both systems? Is one (or both) maxed out? The traffic seems very bursty. This could indicate ...
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I have run Link Aggregation on macs since 10.4 and it's really nice when you have a gigabit switch. You will need a switch that runs LACP and two physical ethernet ports like is typical on G4 & G5 PowerMacs days and of course the entire MacPro line.
Mac OS X won't show LACP as an option without two ethernet ports. I don't know of a switch that does ...
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I don't think there's anything you can do to prevent it.
OSX has decided, for whatever reason, that it's a service bundle (something intended to show up in the Services menu). I'd consider filing a radar about it, but have no idea how likely it would be that Apple would do anything about it. (Were it my call, I would have done something like requiring a ...
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One person sharing two or more Macs, all running Lion
Method A: physical share of a disk
For your file to be versioned, save first to removable media with a file system that supports permanent version storage. Save all versions of the file to that volume.
Eject/unmount the volume. Use the volume with other Macs running Lion.
Examples:
a USB flash ...
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The limits are only enforced on the authorization level. The license terms of the app store are very confusing to me (I have to read them many times and I never know if I'm remembering some past wording or what it really says today). It also has all the various stores - each with different terms for rentals, movies, music, subscriptions, Mac Apps, iOS apps, ...
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If you have multiple devices spread among family members and also share your iTunes account with family members, this should help:
Article: How to Use iCloud in a Family Setting:
http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/10/how-to-use-icloud-in-a-family-setting-share-apps-but-not-contacts
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Unfortunately the only way to share apps is to use the same Apple ID for purchases on every device.
You can use different IDs for iCloud, but you need to sign into the App Store with the same ID.
If you're signed in to the App Store with the correct ID you can download previously purchased apps for free, each person haven their own computer and iTunes ...
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