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Non-admin network users cannot add printer in Snow Leopard

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This is a nice thing to allow non-admin users the ability to add their own printers. I can see how laptop users and working from home sometimes, this could save a ton of work and cost. Thanks Mike!

This worked for me:

/usr/sbin/dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -u admin -p -a everyone -t group lpadmin

Be sure to replace “admin” with the username of a local workstation admin account!

 

Mike

via Non-admin network users cannot add…: Apple Support Communities.

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard font management

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard font management. This has a great deal of information about using fonts like truetype, dfont, and others. It has over 70 comments, so you can learn a great deal about common problems and solutions. Applications like Adobe, Quark and others can require some special work to get fonts to work properly. I like Font Explorer X the best, and the last time I checked it was $49 per user.

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Digging deeper into Apples Time Capsule failure figures Technology guardian.co.uk

Digging deeper into Apples Time Capsule failure figures Technology guardian.co.uk. Too many failures to suggest relying on as a strategy. I would suggest external/internal hard drives instead and Mac OS X Server . What is your data worth?

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How to enable tftp server on Mac OS X Me in IT

 

How to enable tftp server on Mac OS X Me in IT. This guy is fantastic with Unix/Linux. He really makes things simple with his step by step instructions. This is also known as tftpd. I had someone search for this term once and it didn’t show this article since it wasn’t an exact match.

 

  1. Change /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist Quite simple; remove two lines <key>Disabled</key> and <true/>. Besides that, I added the -l option with <string>-l</string>, but that’s optional.
  2. Load tftp.plist into launchd The command launchdctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist will do that.
  3. Monitor /var/log/system.log With the command tail -f /var/log/system.log

Now place the required files in /private/tftpboot and you are done!

If you don’t want to do this you can also use this program:

TFTP Server 3.3.1 Very cool freeware and GUI that is compatible with Snow Leopard.

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Compare two folders contents in Terminal Utilities Mac OS X Hints Macworld

Mac OS X on a Thinkpad!
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Compare two folders contents in Terminal Utilities Mac OS X Hints Macworld.  Nice use and examples of the diff command.  If you don’t mind using the terminal this will work well.

diff -rq folder1 folder2

 

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Mac IT Guy: Which e-mail service? Mac IT Working Mac Macworld

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Mac IT Guy: Which e-mail service? Mac IT Working Mac Macworld.  I agree with his suggestion that Kerio is a great Exchange alternative.  I think people only use Exchange because that’s what they are familiar with.  It is an expensive way to work.

 

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What replaces the Xserve? 9 to 5 Mac What replaces the Xserve? Apple Intelligence

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What replaces the Xserve? 9 to 5 Mac What replaces the Xserve? Apple Intelligence.  If this line from the article is true, they could have saved a ton of stressed Mac businesses by announcing they had a replacement.

One Apple Enterprise shop we spoke to said that Apple’s System Engineers have been on a campaign to assure that Apple has another solution in the pipeline beyond what they’ve announced.  There wasn’t an exact timeline of release but there was an indication that when the Xserve inventory runs out, the new product will be released.  That means a new Enterprise product could be ready in February.


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