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Tag Archives: Lion
Lion – AFP – Change secutiy setting to allow connections to legacy file servers
Lion has upped the anti on AFP security. To connect to older, legacy Novell servers one needs to do the following … sudo chmod o+w /Library/Preferences sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_host_prefs_version -int 1 (creates the file) Connect to an AFP … Continue reading
Mac – Lion – Add host info to login window
Before 10.7, by default you could click in the login window to get information on the IP address, hostname etc. Now, in 10.7.3, you have to add this to the preferences with … sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow AdminHostInfo HostName
Mac – Lion – Login Window Text
To add text to the mac login window use the LoginwindowText string in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist as in: # defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText -string “Classroom Equipment Support – Phone Ext: 2112 or 413-597-2112 First time login to this computer may take a … Continue reading
Mac – Lion – Login window banner
To create a specific and pretty login window banner for an acceptable use policy see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4788
Mac – Lion – Login Background and Apple Logo
This application allows you to change both the background image and the apple logo on the login window: http://www.loginox.branox.com/
Mac – Lion – Suppressing iCloud singin request …
OK. I found a copy of this file elsewhere and put it in the user template folder, making sure the iCloud variable was set to True. It seems to be working. Romeyn On May 9, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Barone, … Continue reading
Lion – Login Banner
Now with Lion you can set a login banner that is displayed to the user and the user has to “accept” before proceeding. I set this in group policy on my windows computers and will be setting this on Lion. … Continue reading