Tag Archives: Novell

Mac – Mavericks — AFP shares need to become SMB shares

Posted on August 14, 2014 by

With Mavericks, Apple is moving farther away from AFP support. It’s time to change our AFP points in our Network Shares to smb pointers. Two commands come in very handy to find and replace the needed text in the files … Continue reading →

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Windows – Novell settings for Lab image

Posted on August 1, 2012 by

Novell Client Settings used on 2013 Windows Lab image (the novell client is not used on Mac OS) set novell client login link on users desktop to a shortcut to c:\windows\system32\loginw32.exe In Novell Client Properties … Set Client Props – … Continue reading →

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Lion – AFP – Change secutiy setting to allow connections to legacy file servers

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

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 →

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