Setting up machine-wide shares
I use my G5 tower to serve my iTunes and iPhoto libraries to several other machines in the house. Under Tiger, I could set up the machine so that these directory shares were served regardless of who was or wasn't logged into the machine. As long as it was running, the shares were up.
Under Leopard, these shares dissapear if no one is logged in and worse, any external drives are dismounted. Is there any way to use Leopard as a 'real' file server?
Anyone?
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But the share does not appear in Select Disk. Any ideas on how I get it to appear so that I can enter user/password?Come to find out, at least one NAS does work! Synology released a beta of their software the day after Lion was announced that apparently resolved Lion incompatibilities.
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I can only get in using these settings:
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password = blah blah blah.
Yet when I apply the same settings changing 'myaccount' to 'remote', I cannot get in.
I'm not sure where I am going wrong, any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!No need to apologise, I'm the idiot who can't setup a home network. Although I'm sure Vista is at least to blame somehow.
I have sharing turned on and it says "Windows users can access your computer at smb://192.168.x.xxx."
If I click "options" it has a box which has an "on" tick box and my name. I have ticked it. When I ticked it, it asked for my admin password which I supplied.
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I am trying to connect going into network on vista and selecting my mac, correct.
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192.168.x.xxx\nathan
password
but for some reason the 'remote' user I have set up wont work on vista using the same format.
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http://www.halfspot.com/use-your-pc-hard-drive-for-time-machine-backup/ -
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i did follow "From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences. Choose View > Time Machine. Set Time Machine to On if it is off "
. .....but i couldn't find the time capsule from airport utility..... why?Are you using a new 802.11ac Time Capsule - the "tall" one - and are you still using Mac OS X 10.6.8?
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http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1645/en_US/airport_time_capsule_802 11ac_setup.pdf
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Can I set Time Machine to backup both my hard drive and an external hard drive?
Hi. I've been working with a lot of family video lately and my internal hard drive has filled up significantly. iMovie doesn't seem to have a good archiving facility like Adobe InDesign which I use at work were all the relevant files are gathered together into one folder. Apple advised me to relocate my movie files to an external hard drive and herein lies my query.
Is there a way for me to set Time Machine to backup both my iMac's internal drive and the external hard drive that would contain my movie files? I've been using Time Machine for my backups for a few years now, but backing up the external as well has me stumped. If Time Machine could be used then all the necessary file accociations etc would be safely backed up as well - that's why I don't want to have to manually backup the external.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!7string48 wrote:
Thanks so much Pondini!! You just quickly answered a question that none of the Mac people in 3 stores or Apple Care have been able to answer.If you can format it HFS+ (any variation of Mac OS Extended), it will work. If not, it won't.
I'm not too surprised about the Apple Stores, as they don't get much training on Time Machine. But AppleCare sure ought to know.
Oh...what about if the external drive is an array...like a Drobo with it's own proprietary formatting...I guess that would not work...??
I've never used a Drobo. A number of folks here have used them as their Time Machine drives, but I don't recall seeing anyone try to back one up with TM, so can't say for sure. But if you can format it as HFS+ (any variation of Mac OS Extended), it will work. If not, it won't.
At least part of the reason is, Time Machine uses the File System Event Store, a hidden log of changes that OSX keeps on each Mac-formatted disk/partition, to figure out what's changed and needs to be backed-up. See How Time Machine works its Magic for details.
See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #32 for details and considerations of backing-up multiple volumes with Time Machine.
However, even if it will work, that may not be your best strategy, depending on your circumstances:
Since Time Machine keeps copies of things you've changed or deleted, the destination needs to be considerably larger than the data being backed-up. How much larger varies widely depending on how you use your Mac, but a general "rule of thumb" is, it needs at least twice the space to be able to keep a reasonable "depth" of backups for you.
If you have a large internal HD, fairly full, plus a large external HD, and the files on the external don't change frequently, you might want to use Time Machine for the internal, and a different app to a different disk or partition, on a different schedule, for the external. Especially if space is a consideration, you might not need to keep previous versions of files on the externals. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #27 for some alternatives. -
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Have you got into Settings > Computers > Turned on Home Sharing (Note: You must use the some Apple ID used by the iTunes library on your MAC for them to see one another)
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http://clc.its.psu.edu/Labs/Mac/Resources/blastimageconfig/
http://blog.macadmincorner.com/
http://lists.apple.com/archives/System-imaging/ -
Setting a System wide lock timeout (clx)
I'd like to know how it is possible to set a system wide lock timeout!
For example, I need that a transaction waiting for a row more than 10 seconds, was automatically rolled back!
I tried to use a trigger found in the documentation:
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but seems not to work.
Can someone help me?
G.Steve,
your answer is complete, the problem I am facing is that:
1 - I should instruct my programmers of the usabily of this tecnique the SELECT ... FOR UPDATE WAIT n, so the timeout is faced from application perspective, and it isn't so bad, in fact every single query could be customized regarding the WAIT time!
The drawback is that if the programmer doesn't use this technique, the application waits for the eternity.
2 - A system wide lock timeout, in any case could force, in any case, a default behaviour, ...
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very much
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Backups, time machine and share server screen
I've used Time Machine for point in time server backups, and a firewire external drive with Silverkeeper for cloning.
Firstly, Silverkeeper will not be supported in Lion... so maybe I should be mocing to something else? Intego Backup assistant came with the drive... as well as Silverkeeper.... I have no idea how reliable these are for cloning the drive, nor why I would need both... but no doubt Intego is a light version of something I would need to buy... so the quesiton would become... what should I buy?
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this path is set by the file /home/<username>/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini.
trying to open firefox on any system other than the first gives the "Firefox is already running, but is not responding." message.
If I could make the profile sit at /home/<username>/.mozilla/firefox/<sysname>/<unique name >.default, then each system should be able to have 1 browser open at the same time...You can create shortcuts to open each instance with an absolute path to a specific profile instead of using profiles.ini
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Time Machine AFP shares for client machines
I have migrated a Mac Mini from 10.6 Server to 10.7 Server. This is my own internal mail server etc so it is not too critical.
I have a DROBO connected to the mini and the DROBO has been partitioned into 4 partitions. Three of the partitions are shares which I used for the Time Machine (TM) backups on my MBP, my wife's iMac and the mini server. The fourth partition was for shared files. All this worked well in 10.6 but it seems broken with 10.7. I did this so I could limit how much space was available for each client machine's TM backup.
First in the Server.app the TM service I though was just for the server but it seems that once you specify this it created a shared folder which serves as a target for client machine backups. There doesn't seem to be a way of designating specific shares for different client machines.
Second, the shares that I used in 10.6 are still there and permissions are correct but even though I can connect to the share via the finder, TM on a client (MBP running 10.7) looks like it stalls during the preparing backup phase then fails.
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Hello, I have a 2 computer, a G5 (my personal mac) and a iMac (family computer) setup over a gigabit lan. I have a 1.5TB hard drive attached to my G5 via FW800. I would like to use this as the time machine backup disk. The G5 is already set up to use it since it's physically attached.
How I have been accomplishing this on the imac is mount the drive via AFP and select it as the backup disk through the time machine system preferences window. Since I store other data, backup mostly, on this 1.5TB drive my current solution is not a very secure one. The drive mounts to the desktop any anyone on the iMac can brows it's contents unrestricted. I've unchecked (show these items on the Desktop:) "connected servers" in the Finder Preferences windows to obscure this share.
I tried creating a shared folder on this drive for the iMac to use. But I can't select the share in the TM preference window. I assume this is because if the invisible TM files in the root of the drive. I've been testing what works and what does not, Drives seem to work fine, shared folders within the same drives do not. shared disk images (iDisk) does work.
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