I used these instructions to get my Windows 7 clients to connect to my
Mac 10.4 server.
Early adopters of Microsoft’s new Vista operating system may notice that
it will not connect to Samba share folders out of the box. This will be
a bit of a pain for many enterprise customers. The technical reason is
because Microsoft Vista’s default security policy is to only use NTLMv2
authentication. According to a Google search Samba doesn’t support this
yet.
Taken from Adam Nash's blog
Psycohistory.
I apologize for not giving credit more explicitly when I first posted
the article.
When you buy a Western Digital (WD) 1 TB My Book External Hard Drive,
they usually come formatted for Windows using FAT32. Of course, if you
are using it with a Mac, then you’ll want to reformat it using Mac OS
Extended (HFS+).
The problem: When you try to reformat in Disk Utility, you’ll get a very
cryptic error that says that there was an unknown error with the
partition map.
| LyraTechnicalSystems.com » Blog Archive » Moving the Unmovable:
Windows Disk Defragmentation
Strategies
| One problem you may encounter in using the Windows Defragmenter
program is “unmovable files” (the green bars) placed in an
inconvenient location (on the right side of the display, at the end of
your disk). The two most common “unmovable” files are the Windows
operating system paging file (pagefile.sys) and the hibernation file
(hiberfil.sys) that is used to store system state when the XP
operating system goes into “hibernate” mode. An easy solution is to
temporarily remove these files, then reinstall them after you’ve
resized the NTFS partition.
| AutoRuns for
Windows
| This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of
auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what
programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and
shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These
programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other
Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations,
including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects,
Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns
goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.
Some windows programs use a compression for larger files that is not
compatible with the linux unzip command. Resulting in the following
error:
need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1)
There is a special program for handling these large files:
p7zip
Run these commands to install and run:
$ curl -o p7zip_4.20_src.tar.bz2 http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/p7zip/p7zip_4.20_src.tar.bz2
$ bunzip2 p7zip_4.20_src.tar.bz2
$ tar xvf p7zip_4.20_src.tar
$ cd p7zip_4.20_src
$ make
$ make install
$ 7za x largefilename.zip
This saved my ass... let me know how it works for you.
| Real Men Dont Click -- The
Project
| The plan was, to create a fully automated, server based, Windows 2000
setup. Fully automated in this context means two things:
| 1.
| Basic tasks like, Client Installation, Server Setup, Application
Deployment, Hotfix application and Account management happen without
continous user intervention.
| 2.
| The Setup is reproducible. This means that the whole system should
constructed automatically from basic components.
This tutorial is meant for increasing the performance of Windows XP,
either it can be a fresh installed windows or an old windows. Actually
these r some tips/tricks, which I always apply whenever I do a fresh
installation of windows. So here I’m sharing many of those
tips-n-tricks:
UPDATE: This story was reported as stolen from this source:askvg.com**
I just grabbed it from digg. It's a very helpful article and I would
like to give credit where credit is due.**
| Mac Mojo : Get
converted
| This is a stand-alone Macintosh application that converts .docx
documents - that is, documents saved by Word 2007 for Windows in the
Office Open XML file format - into rich text format RTF documents so
that they can be automatically opened in either Word 2004 or Word v.X
for Mac OS X.
With this free converter we passionately want to get you up and reading
the new documents you are receiving. We do not, however, want to see you
inadvertently mess up any critical documents you are working with. For
that reason, only one-way read only conversion is supported in this
beta. When sending documents back to colleagues and contacts, we
recommend saving to the default .doc format from Mac Word listed as
"Word document" in the save dialog. Similarly, we continue to
recommend that you advise friends and colleagues who use Office 2007 and
collaborate regularly with Mac users to save their documents as a
"Word/Excel/PowerPoint 97-2003 Document" .doc, .xls, .ppt to ensure
that the files can be robustly shared across platforms while waiting for
final availability of Office 2008 for Mac.
| Microsuck | Microsofts Really Hidden
Files
| There are folders on your computer that Microsoft has tried hard to
keep secret. Within these folders you will find two major things:
Microsoft Internet Explorer has not been clearing your browsing
history after you have instructed it to do so, and Microsofts Outlook
Express has not been deleting your e-mail correspondence after youve
erased them from your Deleted Items bin. This also includes all
incoming and outgoing file attachments. And believe me, thats not even
the half of it.
| SUPERGUIDE: The Open Source Challenge. How to replace Windows
completely with Ubuntu. | APC
Magazine
| When I was first given this task I had to sit and blink a few times,
if for nothing else than dramatic pause. Im a self-confessed Linux
nut, as some of you may know, but even Im cautious to do away with
Windows completely. Theres a reason I have a dual-boot Windows and
Linux machine. Several of them, in fact.
| macosxhints.com - OS X VPN client and Cisco
ASA
| Summary: This hint is for Network Engineers who want their firewalls
to accept VPN connections from standard OS X L2TP / IPSec clients
(should also work for Windows and Linux clients). If you are not a
network engineer, but are having trouble connecting to one of these
devices, you can also forward this tip to your company's "firewall
person," so that they can fix it.
This simple guide will bring up the Windows start menu inside GNOME and
allow you to run, use and install any Windows app (that can run in a VM)
inside your existing desktop. It takes about 10 minutes to setup, minus
the time to install Windows, and involves one command in total.
You can take your desktop wherever you go, on USB stick, and newest
working Debian 4.0 'Etch' to boot! The well-known flavor of Debian,
engineered in Germany by Klaus Knopper, empowers you to step over all
them troubles with freaky Windows. MS-Windows stuff is so much last
century... totally uncool bloatware. USB Knoppix might be the right
answer!
read
more | digg story \<http://digg.com/linux_unix/HOWTO_Create_Your_Personal_All_In_One_USB_Knoppix_5_1_0_hot\>__
I created the following scripts to mimic the ipconfig /all functionality
found in the Windows NT operating system. In the unix world, all of the
info is available, but not in one place which is where this script comes
in handy. It concatenates all of the various pieces of IP configuration
into one easy-to-read display. The bonus is all of the functions used
are contained in a separate file, which can be sourced into your shell
environment and used individually.
This guide was written to allow a reader to quickly understand 'How to
build a cost effective Development Environment for Windows Server
200X'. A Development Environment at the most basic level refers to a
source control tool and bug tracking software. The following covers
application requirements, setup, basic configuration and use guides for
each. Given that requirements for each application were already on a
server, using the following guide as a framework will allow an
environment to be built from scratch in one to two working days.
| Learn the best way to batten down the hatches on your servers
without going too far.
| by Kenton Gardinier for ftponline.com
| Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services in terminal server mode can be
run in either the Full Security or Relaxed Security compatibility mode
to meet your organization's security policy and application
requirements. Full Security mode was created to help lock down the
terminal server environment to reduce the risk of users mistakenly
installing software or inadvertently disabling the terminal server by
moving directories or deleting Registry Keys. This mode can be used
for most certified terminal server applications.
| Read
more.
At home we have a Windows 2003 Server running as a domain controller and
file server. Whilst this does its job pretty nicely for Windows clients,
I've never been able to connect to it successfully with my Mac running
OS X 10.3 Panther. Browsing the network I have always been able to see
the server, but any attempt to authenticate simply returned a error
along the lines of "the original item cannot be found". Frustrating.
If you work in network support for Windows, sooner or later it's bound
to happen. You'll be sitting quietly at your desk, and someone will
walk up with a long list of questions about their Apple Macintosh
computer. How do we connect it to the existing network? How will users
access file shares, print, browse the Internet, and use e-mail? What do
you do? You don't know anything about a Mac beyond plugging it into the
wall. In a perfect world, you could plug in any device and go to work.
Unfortunately, it's a little more involved than that. It isn't as hard
as it sounds, though, nor is it as difficult as it used to be. Just
remember that there is more than one way to peel an Apple!