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It's a surprise. I thought I had seen Macs in Windows's domains before. I believe from NT4, Windows provides a way to communicate with Apple computer if I'm not wrong. That was ages ago. How would they handle workgroups and domains for Apple com…
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Upon further testing or experiments, I have found that the same MAC with OS X 10.2 installed talks with Windows XP Home and Pro would not talk to Windows 2000 or NT4. I've got the same setup on the network interface for Windows 2000 or NT4 as for X…
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Quote: Originally posted by Outsider "su" is substitute user. If you just type "su" then it assumes you want to access root. If you type something like "su healer" or "su some_other_account" it'll log that shell into the other account so you can …
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Quote: Originally posted by Kickaha healer: There are two varieties of MacOS X: MacOS X and MacOS X Server. The former is what ships with every user-oriented Mac, the latter is what ships with the servers. You have the former. It's all incl…
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Quote: Originally posted by aresee healer you're scaring me with your insistence on using sudo. I recommend that you stay within the GUI until you get familiar with the Mac OS. Then go ahead and explore Unix and the terminal. Most everything you …
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Quote: Originally posted by Gene Clean It's disabled already. I thought I would get in without enabling anything. When I tried I typed "su" and it asked for password. I didn't go further from there as I don't need the root access at this ti…
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Quote: Originally posted by Gene Clean You mean XEROX pioneered it, and Apple just came to the market first due to a smart "trick" they did; pay XEROX $1 mil. to "study" the GUI... ...and go home and copy it. But yes, to answer the que…
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Quote: Originally posted by Outsider Yes; no root access is ideal. I run my account at home as a standard user, root is disabled and an admin account was created for authentication purposes only, like to install software, and do other admin type …
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Quote: Originally posted by Kickaha Okay, first things first. There is no such thing as "Mac's Windows". Quickest way to get people ticked at you. Kinda like calling a BMW 780i "BMW's Cadillac". The term I think you're looking for is 'GUI': G…
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Quote: Originally posted by BRussell Did you do what Gon suggested? Go to the Applications directory, then inside that is the Utilities directory, and inside that is Terminal.app. That's the terminal you said you were looking for. Thanks to e…
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Quote: Originally posted by Gon Applications->Utilities->Terminal.app, nothing to install. Thanks! I missed this post when I last came around. I have tried that just now and I did get to use "su" though I didn't go further. I wonde…
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Quote: Originally posted by BRussell Did you do what Gon suggested? Go to the Applications directory, then inside that is the Utilities directory, and inside that is Terminal.app. That's the terminal you said you were looking for. Oh sorry, I…
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Quote: Originally posted by rminkler You might have read that you need to enable root access to have full BSD functionality. I borrowed the book from the library and I have returned it since. I remember something like enabling access through…
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Quote: Originally posted by Gon Applications->Utilities->Terminal.app, nothing to install. I didn't install the operating system. I got the computer second-handed. Would the BSD subsystem not have been installed by default? I have al…
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Thanks a lot. I have managed to access files on Windows from Mac after installing NWLink IPX/SPX protocol on the network setup with Windows. As to permissions, I have found that one can only read files from the public or shared directory if acce…
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With a shared folder in a Windows system over the network, one can add, edit or delete files, can we do that on Mac from Windows How can we do the same the other way round, on Windows from Mac? How do we set permissions on shared files over th…