Sometimes an OS X Server will have very poor SMB file sharing performance - whilst I haven't been able to ascertain with 100% certainty what causes it, something that may be a factor is the use of SMB 3 connections...
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I occasionally see OS X Server's Open Directory flip out, sometimes a simple repair of the LDAP databases seems to fix it, sometimes you need to go deeper. If repairing the databases doesn't work, then I try to recover the...
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I've had a bit of trouble getting a Google Pixel C to be recognised on my Mac - wasn't able to get it showing up in System Profiler and wasn't able to see it with adb. I was initially trying...
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I've had a few issues trying to change the default mail client on El Cap. In nearly every case, after changing it in Mail (seemingly the only place you can actually change it), the change doesn't stick. After quitting and...
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Edit: November 2021 People seem to still be hitting this story, and by and large these steps usually work. If you are still relying on macOS Server however, you need to migrate to another platform with some degree of urgency....
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I'm doing an email migration for a client from an old 2008 SBS Server into Office 365. For some reason, there were two mailboxes that just wouldn't migrate using the migration wizard in Office 365. I switched to the ever-trusty...
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This is shamelessly cut and pasted from TwoCanoes: System Integrity Protection (SIP) Apple has implemented a new security feature in OS X 10.11, System Integrity Protection, which prevents even super users from altering the contents of files in key System...
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By default, TCP offload isn't enabled on the EdgeRouter Lite for PPPoE connections. Type in the following to enable it: ssh router.example.com configure set system offload ipv4 forwarding enable set system offload ipv4 pppoe enable set system offload ipv6 forwarding enable...
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