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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard-filesharing.html#090210b http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard-filesharing.html#090210b Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:32:52 -0800 Jason Sloaf suggests another Finder alternative for getting around slow SMB file sharing in Snow Leopard. Readers have previously suggested the Path Finder utility. Sloaf suggestions Adobe Bridge: The other product that gets around the SMB issue in the Snow Leopard Finder is Adobe Bridge. Adobe used to offer an option in the Creative Suite applications to use their own dialog box interface when opening and/or saving a file instead of the Finder's interface...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard-filesharing.html#090210c http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard-filesharing.html#090210c Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:32:52 -0800 Alexis Rosen forwarded a fix for problems with Snow Leopard clients not being able to delete files on Linux SMB shares. There were also issues copying files. The fix is to edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf file on the Linux server. Editing this file can fix other issues as well. This time, the trick is to remove the "netbios name = XXXXX" line. Rosen's report: I am running a stock Ubuntu Lucid, fully updated, with the standard Ubuntu packaged samba (v3.4.7). I spent several hours trying to get it working properly with OS X 10.6.4 last weekend...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard-filesharing.html#090210d http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard-filesharing.html#090210d Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:32:52 -0800 Jack Fruh had success with a tip for fixing slow SMB file sharing in Snow Leopard, and shared an alternative method: Just wanted to say I tried the tip "DNS/Kerberos Setting workaround for slow SMB browsing." Like another reader, it cut approx 25 seconds off my time. (In my case, the delay is easy to measure repeatedly, as I have an Applescript that mounts the disk, so I don't have to type anything in.) Previous to this, it took 30 seconds from connect to 'login prompt', now it takes about 6...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopardVPN.html#090210e http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopardVPN.html#090210e Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:32:52 -0800 Responding to Monday's report of Snow Leopard Success with Cisco AnyConnect instead of Cisco VPN Client, Oliver Block warns that the two are not always interchangeable: Readers should understand that Cisco AnyConnect is not simply a substitute for Cisco VPN Client 4.x. Cisco AnyConnect works with recent Cisco devices and supports SSL VPN. The Cisco AnyConnect VPN client is not compatible with the IPsec VPN tunnels available on many older Cisco devices... http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard-filesharing.html#090210f http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard-filesharing.html#090210f Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:32:52 -0800 Alexis Rosen has a problem with a Linux server and a network trash folder with Mac clients: If anyone knows how to enable a functioning trashcan on a network share (either AFP or SMB) I'd love to know about it. I see that my share has a "Network Trash Folder" and that netatalk knows to hide that from me, but I still can't hold files in the trash - the Finder destroys them... http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopardVPN.html#083010a http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopardVPN.html#083010a Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:46:58 -0800 For Macs running Snow Leopard, John Brigance recommends Cisco's Anyclient overCisco VPN Client: We quit using Cisco VPN Client for Mac here at UT Austin because it was too unreliable. We now use Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client for all our Macs running on Snow Leopard. You can check it out here. I never have a problem with it...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopardAD.html#083010b http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopardAD.html#083010b Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:46:58 -0800 Dean Cole is having a problem with Snow Leopard clients requiring force-undbinding: Hi I am just contacting you with regards to a post on your site on the 22nd September 2009 titled Reader's Mac OS X 10.6 Server requires forced-unbind after restart. I am experiencing the same issues on my Snow Leopard clients however it doesn't seem to happen every time the machines are restarted. Just the majority of the time...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/iphone_exchange.html#083010c http://www.macwindows.com/iphone_exchange.html#083010c Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:46:58 -0800 After upgrading to iOS4, Michel Wijnstekers is having the same problem described in the report "Reader's iPhone email not getting delivered through Exchange." He says: I have the same problem as described in the web site. We updated our e-mail server (new install) to Exchange 2010. Everything was working fine. But when iPhone users updated their iPhone to version 4, they were unable to send mail from their iPhone. There's no error message on the iPhone and the mail is not in the sent folder...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com#083010d http://www.macwindows.com#083010d Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:46:58 -0800 Laplink Software has released Switch and Save (US $40), a product that can move or synchronize files and folders and settings from a PC to a Mac, and converts email, contacts and calendars to Mac formats. Switch and Sync can convert Windows Mail, Outlook Express 6 and later, and Outlook 2000 and later to Mac Mail and Address Book and Microsoft Entourage formats...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/Mac-Q2-enterprise-sales-surge.html http://www.macwindows.com/Mac-Q2-enterprise-sales-surge.html Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:39:25 -0800 It was a good quarter for PC sales, but a great quarter for Macs. Mac sales in business and government saw their biggest increases ever in the quarter ending in June, outstripping growth of the general PC market. According to Needham Company analyst Charles Wolf, as reported by AppleInsider yesterday, Mac sales to enterprise jumped 49.8 percent, three times the 15.7 percent of the PC market. Mac sales to government surged a whopping 200 percent, 16 times the 12.1 percent growth of the market. Mac sales in enterprise grew faster than Mac sales to homes, Apple's traditional stronghold...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/Quest-AS4-Identity-Manager.html http://www.macwindows.com/Quest-AS4-Identity-Manager.html Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:12:41 -0800 Quest Software has beefed up its Mac Active Directory offerings with two new tools. Quest Authentication Services 4.0 is an agent-based Active Directory bridge solution that adds Active Directory's authentication and group policy capabilities to Mac OS X, Unix, and Linux. The other release, Quest Identity Manager for Unix, is a free web-based console for managing Macs, Unix, and Linux clients from any platform--with or without Active Directory...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/Fix-AD-dot-local-domains.html#081810a http://www.macwindows.com/Fix-AD-dot-local-domains.html#081810a Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:01:44 -0800 A number of readers report that a fix for Mac authentication in .local domains work for them. There were also questions and a further suggetion. Alan Silcott reports: Just wanted to say that the article: "TIP: Fix for Mac AD authentication failure after reboot on .local domains" fixed my problems with Snow Leopard losing the AD connection with our .local domain. This article was incredibly helpful...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopardVPN.html#081810b http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopardVPN.html#081810b Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:01:44 -0800 David Gilding is another reader getting error 51 when he tries to connect to a Cisco VPN from Snow Leopard: I appear to have the same problem as Ramon Espinosa (Tues Jun 1, 2010). Until last week, the Mac VPN client worked beautifully. Now it asks for password (via token), 'connects' for a second or two and then disconnects. Very annoying - colleagues with PCs were told to reinstall software from discs... http://www.macwindows.com/vmware.html#081810c http://www.macwindows.com/vmware.html#081810c Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:01:44 -0800 VMware has released Fusion 3.1.1, a maintenance update to the virtualization software for Intel Macs. The update enables users of VMware Fusion to run VMware vSphere 4.1 as a guest OS on a Mac. vSphere is sometimes referred to as a "cloud computing OS." The update also fixes a problem accessing iSight cameras and a problem with recording audio when the sample rate was not 44.1 kHz...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard.html#081810d http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard.html#081810d Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:01:44 -0800 Apple has released "Mac OS X Server 10.6.4 Update for Mac Pro (Mid 2010)," an update of its server package. Apple lists about a dozen fixes for the update. These include a problem "copying, renaming, or deleting files on SMB file servers" and reliability of VPN connections. It also fixes an issue with CalDAV querying of email addresses with Active Directory and Open Directory servers...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard.html#081810e http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard.html#081810e Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:01:44 -0800 Apple released the Snow Leopard Graphic Update, which is designed to fix performance and stability of specific games. It addresses frame rates in Portal and Team Fortress and Team Fortress 2, and bugs with Aperture 3 or StarCraft II. However game manufacture Steam said that performance of its games had been below that of Windows. At it web site, Steam indicated that a "lot of buzz about performance, particularly relative to Windows" spurred them to contact Apple...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/iphone_exchange.html#081610a http://www.macwindows.com/iphone_exchange.html#081610a Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:57:31 -0800 John Lundell said that problems with Outlook and iPads and iPhones, such as where messages deleted in Outlook remain on the iPad, are due to a corrupt file in Windows: The user having these issues needs to re-create their .OST file. We've seen similar things (not just with iPads or iPhones) all related to corrupt .ost files. Microsoft has information on how to fix a .OST file...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/iphone_exchange.html#081610b http://www.macwindows.com/iphone_exchange.html#081610b Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:57:31 -0800 Readers are reporting Exchange email problems after upgrading iPhones and iPod Touches to iOS4. We had reported a new Apple ActiveSync profile, but that doesn't help some readers. David Kerwin saw multiple problems on his iPod Touch: The moment I downloaded iOS4 I knew I'd made a mistake (iPod Touch 3G purchased 12-09). The battery doesn't last more than a day with normal use whereas before it would last a few days. My work email (Outlook 2003) instantly stopped functioning... http://www.macwindows.com/Fix-Mac-Win-as-non-guest.html#081610c http://www.macwindows.com/Fix-Mac-Win-as-non-guest.html#081610c Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:57:31 -0800 John Thow in the United Kingdom answered another reader's question about turning of Windows XP's "simple file sharing" option: Regarding this page: TIP: Fix for Mac OS X connecting to Win XP as a non-guest. I came across this as I'm trying to do the same thing on a friend's machine. The answer to Phil Gate's problem can be found at on this WikiHow page...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/bootcamp3.html#081610d http://www.macwindows.com/bootcamp3.html#081610d Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:57:31 -0800 Patrick Reese said that a reported fix for wireless networking in Boot Camp didn't work:I've tried the following fix: TIP: A fix for Windows 7 wireless drivers on a MacBook Boot Camp 3. But it just gives me an error message that the software failed to install. My Internet still won't work in Boot Camp in Windows 7...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com#081610e http://www.macwindows.com#081610e Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:57:31 -0800 Cybele Software has released ThinVNC, a new, free remote desktop solution that allows remote control of Windows from any OS running an HTML5 web browser, including Safari, Firefox, and the iPad's browser. Unlike other VNC-based remote desktop solutions, ThinVNC does not require installing any plugin or software on the computer doing the accessing. ThinVNC is installed only on the computer being accessed remotely...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard-filesharing.html#080910a http://www.macwindows.com/snowleopard-filesharing.html#080910a Mon, 9 Aug 2010 01:42:10 -0800 Matt Horn fixed his slow SMB file sharing browsing with a recent tip about creating a kerberos file with a DNS setting. Horn reports: I have been following the Mac SMB sharing problems for a while and found Kyle Rabe's solution to resolve the problem for me. I did a packet capture for communications between my MBP running OS X 10.6.4 64-bit and noticed the same DNS lookups for _kerberos.server.domain.local...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/iphone_exchange.html#080910b http://www.macwindows.com/iphone_exchange.html#080910b Mon, 9 Aug 2010 01:42:10 -0800 Nick Atalla is another reader reporting a problem syncing iPad and Exchange Server. He also reports another problem, where messages delted in Outlook remain on the iPad: I've run into the same problem that Katrina Thomas reported in your blog. I'm running Outlook 2010 on my laptop and syncing my iPad with my domain Exchange service - Exchange 2010. It appears that once I've opened/replied to an email message on my client, before a sync could take place with my iPad...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com/iphone_exchange.html#080910c http://www.macwindows.com/iphone_exchange.html#080910c Mon, 9 Aug 2010 01:42:10 -0800 Brian Beck reports an annoying problem with duplicate email sent from iPhones through Exchange Server: If my boss responds to or sends out an email to anyone at our company, they get several copies of the same email. Every time he sends an email from his phone, 7 copies of the same message are sent to the same person over an hour's time.... http://www.macwindows.com/iphone_exchange.html#080910d http://www.macwindows.com/iphone_exchange.html#080910d Mon, 9 Aug 2010 01:42:10 -0800 James Linck email doesn't get delivered through Exchange. You said if you've tried Apple's fix for the Exchange email problems on the iPhone and it didn't work, let you know. Well, I did and it doesn't work. Very often (although I have no idea when or why it will occur) my e-mail simply stops getting delivered. It doesn't stay in my outbox, go to sent mail or any other folder and never gets to the recipient...

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]]> http://www.macwindows.com#080910e http://www.macwindows.com#080910e Mon, 9 Aug 2010 01:42:10 -0800 Softhing has released free update for Entourage Exchange Accounts Optimizer. Entourage Exchange Accounts Optimizer automatically moves old mail an Exchange account to a replicated structure within Entourage. The new Version 1.8 is twice as fast as the previous version, according to the company, and is fully compatible with Snow Leopard (version 10.6.3 and later)... http://www.macwindows.com#080910f http://www.macwindows.com#080910f Mon, 9 Aug 2010 01:42:10 -0800 LaCie has shipped the 5big Storage Server, a network-attached-storage device that uses the AFP protocol to serve Mac clients, as well as SMB and NFS. LaCie says it is designed to serve or 25 to 100 PC, Mac, or Linux workstations with up to 10 terabytes of storage capacity. The 5big Storage Server runs Microsoft Storage Server 2008 Standard Edition, powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor...

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