Troubleshooting: MCX in Leopard

Troubleshooting: MCX
•  Launch Terminal
•  Run the mcxquery command
– mcxquery –user
– mcxquery –group
– mcxquery –computer

Troubleshooting: MCX
•  Login as the user.
•  Launch System Profiler from /
Applications/Utilities
•  On the left, under Software, select
Managed Preferences.
•  On the right the details of the
preferences being applied to the
Computer.

Troubleshooting: MCX
•  sudo dscl . –delete /Computers
•  sudo rm –rf /Library/Managed\
Preferences

Hint found here:
Keep Control of Your School’s Leopard by Amanda Kunes.

createmobileaccount

creste a mobile account:


/System/Library/CoreServices/ManagedClient.app/Contents/Resources/createmobileaccount

usage: createmobileaccount -n username [-h homepath] [-P | [-p password]] [-e] [-q] [[-x] | [-X]] [[-s] | [-S]] [-u syncURL] [-v]
-n username : user record name
-h homepath : user home path; Default is "/Users/"
-p password : user password
-P : prompt for password. A password is required for FileVault home
-e encrypt : encrypt new home with FileVault
-q quota : max size in bytes of FileVault home
-x : create as external account on non-boot volumes. Default
-X : create as mobile account account non-boot volumes.
-s : set home sync on if home created.
-S : set home sync off if home created. Default.
-u syncURL : server target of home synchronization
-v : verbose output

Examples:
createmobileaccount -n jsmith
createmobileaccount -v -P -x -n jsmith
createmobileaccount -vsdn jsmith -h /Volumes/HD3/jhome
createmobileaccount -i

Notes:
- createmobileaccount must run as root.
- If you do not specify a password, the account's cached password will be created during the account's first log in.

Linkto a product on the Apple Store

Have you ever tried to send a link to someone showing them a product on the apple store?

Here's how to do it:

1. Get the product number
The way to do so is to add the product to the cart and then go to the cart. It shows you the product numbers.

2. The rest is easy:

Create a links llike this one:
http://store.apple.com/ch-de/product/MB129

or this one:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB128


That's it.

Display only

We wanted to use a Mac Mini as a display only.

That means: jaut a display, no keyboard, no mouse.

Just display a web page.

No problem? Try it. The Mac Mini wants a mouse. It tells you so. Every time you boot it.
Every time the mac starts up, a dialogue appears telling you that you're an idiot because you did not connect a mouse.

OS X in that case tries to set up a mouse using using bluetooth.

So, one way to eliminate this dialogue would obviously to remove the app.
It's this one:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Bluetooth Setup Assistant.app

But that's not a very elegant way to do this.
Besides there is always the risk of an update putting the app back in place thus the dialog appearing again.

After having looked at the app I found a reference to 'com.apple.bluetoothsetupassistant'. I googled a bit I and found a solution on this page:

Managing Bluetooth, or pesky Apple Preferences « Managing OS X

There it says:

# turn off the Bluetooth KB/mouse dialog that comes up if no KB/mouse is found
`/usr/bin/defaults write /var/root/Library/Preferences/blued BluetoothAutoSeekHIDDevices -int 0`;

# restart the Bluetooth daemon
`/usr/bin/killall -HUP blued`;

Or you might open the Bluetooth Preference Pane and uncheck “Open Bluetooth Setup Assistant at startup when no input device is present”

That will do it as well, just in case ;-)

Folder Redirection & Microsoft Office 2008

When using the Folder Redirection of Mac OS X Server 10.5, I was having really big problems with Word from Microsoft Office 2004.
It would not save!!!
Sometimes even documents were overwritten!!
Very nasty

It seems though there is a solution to this:

I found the hint here: http://jochsner.dyndns.org/scripts/NHR.html

It sais that:

«
There appears to be an issue with Office redirection if there is a folder missing at the root of your network mount on the server. The user will be able to successfully save a new document once, and after that, they will get error messages that they don't have permission to save the file to the destination. The answer to this was found on http://macosxhints.com:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051122213207398

The fault occurs unless a folder called .TemporaryItems has been created at the root level of any mounted volume containing the saved file; so if the user's home directory is contained in an AFP share called Homes, then there has to be a directory called .TemporaryItems in the Homes folder on the server. If the home directory is on another local volume called UserData, there has to be a directory called .TemporaryItems at the root of that volume.

Since .TemporaryItems is a dot file, it will not be visible in the Finder. When the application is able to create this .TemporaryItems directory, it is world writable and sticky. For improved security, as long as all users are in a common group like "staff," then the folder can be restricted to writing by the group instead.
$ cd /path/to/volume/or/sharepoint
$ sudo mkdir .TemporaryItems
$ chgrp staff .TemporaryItems
$ chmod 1770 .TemporaryItems
»

Where's that sound!

I tried a few times ti find out where the sound i located that is played when the installer has successfully installed an application.

Today I finally found it.

The sound name is 'burn complete.aif'.

You can find it here: /System/Library/Components/CoreAudio.component/Contents/Resources/SystemSounds/system/burn complete.aif

I did not find this by myself.
I got the tip from here http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=524273

SirAdmin

SirAdmin is a ver cool GUI tool to manage IMAP mailboxes.

It has one problem though.
In order to get it to work, you have to enable clear password authentication on the mail server.

Using Server Admin go to

Mail>Settings>Advanced>Security

Here you have to enable 'Clear' in the IMAP column, otherwise SirAdmin will not be able to authenticate

Tip found here.