Stuff I Do

The wife thinks I am a dork and she is probably right.

I have download and am watching the tour of the new Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard. The new Finder with Coverflow looks good and I like how you can use Spotlight to search the network and it all comes back to Finder still using Coverflow. Timemachine is how user backup tool should be and might make me actually get an external drive. Spaces is nothing new, Linux desktops have had virtual desktops for years. I have not used mail and have always been a fuddy duddy when it comes to my mail. Give me Pine and I will read my email from the command line thank you very much. But since most people are not spartan in their email usage I can see where Mail would be cool. I like the idea of it adding items to you iCal and Address Book with easy clicks. iChat Theater is freaking awesome. I can see where this would be especially useful for remote meetings being able to see and hear the presenter and having a easy way to display multiple document formats. Screen sharing could be useful supporting remote users too. I would like to see one over a internet connection to see if there is lag sending or not.

I needed to mount an SMB share on a Windows 2003 server to my OSX Server at boot time and here is what I found how to do it.

Go to Finder and select Applications. Goto the Utilities folder and open the NetInfo Manager.
Select the mounts property. Unlock the app and add the following new properties.

name -> servername:/share
dir -> /Network/ServerName_Share
opts -> url==cifs://username:password@servername/share
vfstype -> url

Now open a Terminal and check /etc/hostconfig. There should be a line in it which reads:

AUTOMOUNT=-YES-

If there isn’t, of if it reads -NO-, add or fix it, and save the file.

Reboot OSX Server and it will now show. Go to Finder and select Network and you will see the name you gave for the ServerName_Share.