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The Macintosh or Mac is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc.

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How to connect to remote MySQL server using Socks Proxy

I can only connect to a remote server from an specific IP address (Ubuntu Server), this was okay when I was at office but now that I'm working from home I'm stuck. I have SSH access to the Ubuntu server with this specific IP address, so I connected…
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x11 forwarding not working

I'm having trouble getting x11 forwarding when I ssh into a linux machine from a MAC operating Mojave. When I do ssh -X username@serveraddress, I get the following error appearing after I successfully login: /usr/bin/xauth: error in locking…
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Viewing Permissions in Mac OS on a Windows Server 2016 using Active Directory

I am logging into a Windows Server 2016 server and then accessing several volumes. While browsing directories in terminal, all file permissions appear as being owned by the PAM user I am logged into on the Mac workstation and the group is always…
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Mac won't stay connected to the domain

I have a few Macs that I want to join up to a Windows domain, when I join the test machine to the domain it works fine but when I reboot the computer it looses it's connection and I have to delete it and re-create it. My Mac is called "macbook1" the…
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How to set finer-grain HDD Sleep settings in Mac OS 10.5?

Is it possible to specify how many minutes of inactivity Mac OS should wait before it sleeps hard disks? Is there a plist I can manually specify "60 minutes" or something? The GUI gives you the option to "Put the Hard disk(s) to sleep when possible"…
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How do I get Citrix apps to open with Citrix client instead of VMware Fusion on Mac OS X 10.6?

I am trying to open an application from my work's citrix presentation server on my macbook. I just downloaded the latest citrix client for mac from their website but when I go to launch an app it tries to open the app in VMware. If I right-click…
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Mac Pro Memory Installation Problem: Missing RAM in certain slots

I recently purchased 4 GB of RAM (2 x 2 GB modules) for a Mac Pro (8-core, early 2008), that runs 3 or 4 OS (Win, Linux and OS X) in out dev environment. NB: I used the base OS X install to verify memory. I initially installed the 2 new modules in…
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Mac OS Sierra cannot start MySQL

MySQL starts fine at OS stat up. Stopping it and then starting again has an issue though. I am using: sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start The executable binary file is located in: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql It just gets stuck…
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Networking Noob wants advice on best setup for multi-OS filesharing and fileserving

I'm a Stack Overflow user but I've never used SF before. I've upgraded to newer machines this week and would like to get everything all interconnected nicely but I'm a little unsure how to go about it. I'm so dumb about it that I'm not even sure…
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Repair a Mac OS X user account

This is under version 10.4.11 on a G4 PowerBook. The user's main account on the machine will appear to load OK, but no applications will actually launch, instead only giving the spinning beachball. Another account on the system can be used to log in…
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Microsoft Entourage/Exchange Server problem: all objects disappeared from server - still in some form on the client

One of our employees works with Entourage on his MacBook Pro (OSX 10.6) accessing Exchange Server 2007. Last Friday morning, I think while working over a VPN, Entourage (I think it was Entourage) deleted all his objects (mail, calendar, contacts) on…
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Finding ip address from mac addess

I have router in bridge mode which is installed Openwrt and I want to find IP address of devices which are connected to the router. Since router is in bridge mode, I can not find IP from DHCP leases, but I can find mac address of connected…
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Accessing PC localhost from Mac over WiFi

I have a web service running on the localhost of my PC. I set up an ad hoc local wifi network and I would like to access the web service from my Mac. Can this be done? What would the url to my web service be? …
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Is it possibble to reboot a remote MySQL server on Ubuntu from a program or script on a Mac?

I have a client who has a web server hosted with Digital Ocean and they have a weird random MySQL database issue... 1-4 times a month there database server crashes and has to be manually rebooted. I have not been able to figure out the cause of this…
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127.0.0.1 is working but localhost is not working on mac XAMPP

I installed XAMPP on my mac months ago and was working great. Now i get "Test Page For Apache Installation" when i try to browse /localhost and /localhost/xampp is not found. But when i browse /127.0.0.1 it just works as localhost used to be. I…
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