In terms of File Sharing, there is really nothing different from Lion to Mt Lion. There is a bonus for iOS users in EDU in that you can now create a WebDAV āDropBoxā for students submitting their assignments. Follow this kbase for setting up DropBox shares and you will soon be able to have students store their assignments on your server. [ Read More... ]
You have just installed Mountain Lion Server, now what!? Going on the assumption you are staring at Server.app right after a clean install, the first thing that needs attention is DNS! [ Read More... ]
Wow, I can honestly say that this yearās Macworld was awesome! Ā The fans and sponsors were great, but I must give my biasedĀ applauseĀ towards the speakers andĀ MacIT Advisory Board for theirĀ superbĀ job on putting an IT conference together. [ Read More... ]
Over the past several months, my company has been dealing with AD/OD integrations with Lion 10.7.2 and the customerās environment is using ā.localā. If you are not familiar with the history between ā.localā and Apple computers simply put: they donāt mix. PERIOD. It all stems from Apple OS X Clients using the naming convention of āComputerName.localā as its address for Bonjour services. When an Active Directory (AD) environment uses something like ācompany.localā, Lion doesnāt know if you are talking DNS or Bonjourā¦ so it just tries everything, thus giving you delayed authentication (login) against your AD controllers. [ Read More... ]
I donāt feel that anyone reading this in 2012 has never heard of IPv6. The easiest way to put it itās a combinations of HEX values to make a big ugly āthingā that represents your computer. IPv4 was simple; four octets made up of a value from 0-255; thus 192.168.1.111. IPv6 takes this to a new other level. From Wikipedia: [ Read More... ]
