Loading VNC onto a remote Macintosh running SSH - download OSXvnc - Move diskimage to remote computer scp OSXvnc1.5.dmg admin@thatmac.fooschool.edu:~/Applications/ - ssh to remote comptuer, go into Applications folder, mount dmg file, go into .app folder open OSXvnc1.5.dmg cd OSXvnc.app - start the binary over ssh. The localhost option sets it up to sshtunnel. ./OSXvnc-server

Openldap TLS errors Lost a few hours today over a stupid mistake, getting SSL/TLS running on Openldap. When I tried: ldapsearch -x -Z -h woodsy.nicholas.duke.edu -d 1 I got: ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server additional info: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure Over and over, I was troubleshooting the certificates, since

Point and Print connections loose devmode. Users keep loosing thier duplexing options from our samba print queues. I haven't solved the problem, but this is what I've learned. We provide print queues that are described by Microsoft as "Point 'n Print". A point 'n print queue spools print jobs that have been formatted by the workstation. The workstation learns how to format the job

Got CUPS/Samba printing working. I spent a day frustraited that I couldnt get samba to allow me to associate driver with queues, but, it turned out it was due to this setting- use client driver = yes which I'd added in to get past an earlier roadblock I had on the live machine. I hadn't need the parameter on my test machine, and naturally, it seems to disable clickable driver download.

Getting not so far, but learing much about samba/cups printing. I could get everything to work on our PDC, except for the assignment of Window print drivers to the cups print queues. I couldn't get to work from the "Add Printer Wizard". I got a "Printer settings could not be saved. Access is denied." error. Got the same thing from the command line, using rpcclient. As far as I can tell, there

Printing I'm going to try to tackle printing migration. Look like, to get something close to NT style IP printing, which is what we have, we need to do this. 1) Set up CUPS to allow raw printing 2) Set up CUPS to send page log files to syslog 3) add raw print queue to our printer IPs using the CUPS lpadmin utility 4) Set samba to share CUPS print queues The test queues seem a little

Extracting values from pdbedit output The verbose output from pdbedit is kinda screwy; here's some code to pluck out specific values- I've wanted to be able to grab "Account desc" for sorting users as I migrate them. #!/usr/bin/perl #parse a verbose pdbedit record #put record keys and values into a hash #pdbedit command- change for your system. $pdbedit =