osx OSX: Per domain DNS servers Little known OSX feature (or at least it was new to me): You can specify a separate DNS resolver configuration per domain. This can be useful to supplement or over-ride VPN connections. Best of all, it's really easy -- to specify a custom server for mydomain.int, just run: sudo
solaris OSX Time Machine Backups to Solaris ZFS Volume Tested on Solaris 11.1, Netatalk 3.0.4, and OSX 10.8.4 Goal: Back up the household laptops over the network to a solaris fileserver This seems to work better with AFP rather than SMB, so I installed netatalk 3.0.4 from source. Note: This was cobbled
solaris Automated monthly ZFS pool scrubbing Tested on solaris 11.1, but should work 10 and up. Just a quick shell script and cron job to perform a monthly scrub of all pools in your system. Whether this is appropriate or not depends on the frequency of data reads in your system and whether they would
osx Enabling PLAIN LDAP binds on OSX 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion OSX 10.7 and 10.8 have some issues talking to OpenLDAP and 389 (Red Hat Directory Server), because the server advertises non-plain BINDs in the root DSE entry, but these binds don't work when your user entries have hashed passwords (which they should). PS: 10.7.0 and 10.
solaris Sharing a ZFS filesystem with ACLs to OSX clients _The statements and opinions expressed here are my own__ and do not necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation._ _Systems used in this article: Solaris 11 express, OSX 10.7 Lion_ ZFS provides useful NFSv4 ACLs, which are shared over the network when NFSv4 is used. ... however OSX's