January 2010
3 posts
Apple Mail gets stuck in a 'recovered mail' loop
I had a call today from a client who was having trouble with Apple Mail. Specifically, there was a 25mb email sent to him by a family member that Mail was continually trying to ‘recover’ and send up to his Google Apps mail account. After a bit of googling, the answer was pretty easy, though asking someone to use the ‘rm’ command who’s never used the Terminal.app was a...
Setting up Samba share for a vmware OS
Sometimes it’s useful to be able to browse via the file system via a GUI. So on the advice of @AndyGale I installed Samba on my Ubuntu OS instance and created a share for the entire server. The first part of these instructions were from labs.boulevart.be.
open the samba config sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
change “security=user” to “security=share”
comment out “passdb backend = tdbsam”...
Links for setting up a VMware dev server
Have waded through the net and found these the most useful.
Download VMWare Fusion demo from https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=vmware-fusion&lp=1
Get the server image you require from http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/#ubuntu8.04
Install using the guide that matches your download http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/howto/1-minute-guide.html#ubuntu8.04
Follow these instructions for...