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Mac OS X Energy Saver Schedule and PMSET

September 14, 2015 Steve Talley 0

Repost from: http://lists.apple.com/archives/remote-desktop/2007/Sep/msg00007.html Our Apple SE shared the following with us here in Minnesnowta: To set the machine to wake up or power on on […]

How to mount remote SFTP (SSH) file system on your Mac

August 18, 2015 Steve Talley 5

Have you ever wanted to have direct access to an SFTP (SSH) file system directly in the Finder on your Mac? With the help of […]

Create a Mac OS X Service to Open a New Instance of an App

September 9, 2013 Steve Talley 0

In Windows, it’s easy to open another instance of an application. In Mac OS X, there is no way to do this except from the […]

Renew IP address from the Mac OS X Terminal

June 13, 2013 Jason Anderson 0

Use this simple command in Terminal or in a remote SSH session to renew a Mac’s IP address: sudo ipconfig set en0 BOOTP; sudo ipconfig […]

Mac OS X Logon Tracking

June 13, 2013 Jason Anderson 0

Run this command to get a list of users who have logged on, or attempted logon, in Mac OS X: cat /var/log/secure.log | grep -i […]

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Create a user account package for OS X deployment

September 28, 2012 Steve Talley 0

InstaDMG includes a utility under the AddOns directory called CreateUserPKG.app. Using this utility, you can create a user account installation package which has a hashed […]

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Create a flat, no-payload package in Mac OS X

September 27, 2012 Steve Talley 0

Lion and Mountain Lion include a new Terminal command to allow creating package files that only contain a script. To do this, make a Scripts […]

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Mac OS X Admin – Package Maker in Lion/Mavericks

September 18, 2012 Steve Talley 1

Apple has removed Package Maker from the Xcode tools. After installing Xcode, open Xcode, click the Xcode menu, chose Open Developer Tools > More Developer […]

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Mac OS X Lion Server authentication issues with AD and AFP

September 18, 2012 Steve Talley 0

In certain cases, AD (Active Directory) authentication to AFP shares (Apple File Protocol; Apple file sharing) stops working on Mac OS X Lion Server. If […]

WiFi Single Sign On in Lion & Mountain Lion — Login Window 802.11x

September 17, 2012 Steve Talley 0

In Snow Leopard and past versions of Mac OS X, a login window WiFi profile could easily be added to a computer in the Network […]

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