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    MAC OSx Lion and Windows Active directory


    2012 - 01.12

    After days of struggling to get Lion to integrate correctly with a Windows AD, I’ve finally come to the conclussion:

    APPLE – YOU SCREWED UP!

    Can’t get it to go green for sign in after following absolutely all of the help and suggestions as well as Apple support docs. This is from 7-7.2.

    Reset Apple OS X password


    2011 - 09.09

    I don’t know about you but administering Macs is a whore of a job. The good stuff though is the bottom end of it being a BSD/Linux system you can do stuff like reset the admin password when a user brings you their Mac from home and begging you to help:

    Power on the Mac, push and hold AppleKey+S and it’ll boot in to single user mode (God/Root)
    Do ‘mount -uw /’
    Do ‘rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone’ (Makes the OS think it hasn’t been initiated yet)
    Do ‘shutdown -h now’

    Upon power up you are greeted with the OS thinking it’s all new and shiny. Register a new account (not one that exists) and bang, you have a new admin account and can reset the password to the old one if you wish.

    Access your local USB devices in remote Terminal Server se


    2010 - 03.15

    Brothersoft Editor: WakeOnLan discovers all other computers in your LAN, and enables you to wake them up by clicking a button. If your remote computer is a Mac you can put it asleep too. you can free download WakeOnLan 0.99 now.

    http://freesofty.com/review.asp?p=Free_ … iiii_81957