Category Archives: Mac OS X
Easily fix permission and sync issues with mobile home directories and SMB shares
If you use mobile home directories on Mac OS X 10.6 or OS X 10.7 with Windows Server 2008 R2 based SMB home shares, you can run into permission issues during home sync.
How to make Lion clients work with Active Directory computer lists
In Harald Monihart’s and my (german) O’Reilly book “Professionelles Mac-Client-Management in Windowsumgebungen” we describe how to use computer lists in Active Directory to manage your Mac clients.
To make this work, you need to extend your AD schema. We describe this process in our book, but you can also read it in our free sample chapter on the O’Reilly site.
Automatically Create Dummy Files and Folders
From time to time I run into a situation where I need large amounts of files and folders for testing purposes.
Here’s a little bash script which automatically creates the files and folders you need: