How To: Enable BIND – Mac OS X’s Built-in DNS Server

Great article about enabling BIND on Mac OS X, it certainly helped me al lot! Read all about it here. Handy Commands As many things in *nix environments tend to be, managing your DNS server may seem just a bit more complicated than necessary. rndc is the DNS control utility, used to reload your DNS configuration or restart your DNS server launchctl enables you to launch services such as DNS as...

Mac Auto Connect to a Network Drive

This item is related to : Time Machine with Network drive Problem: Every time you shut down your Mac, you lose your connection to a network drive. Solution: Preferences->Accounts->Login Items and adding the icon of your already mounted network volume. Mac OSX will mount it every time you log...

Time Machine with Network drive

1. Mount your network drive (check step-5 if you are getting error in mounting) 2. Change the preferences by running following command (open iTerm or other shell) defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 3. Now activate the time machine 4. You will now be able to select your network drive. 5. In case, you loose your network mount, you will need to reset the preference set in...

Error 150:30 “Licensing for this product has stopped working”

Launching Adobe products on Mac OS X after system upgrade, migration or restore, results in error “Licensing for this product has stopped working” Solution 1: Delete the FLEXnet Publisher folder 1. Quit all Adobe applications. 2. On your startup disk locate and delete the following folder: /Library/Preferences/FLEXnet Publisher 3. Launch your Adobe application(s). Note: There is also a folder named...

Howto Import Vmware Image into Virtualbox

VirtualBox can run VMs created by VMware Workstation or Server for this you need to import vmdk files using the following procedure * Start Virtual Box * Goto File > Virtual Disk Manager * Click Add. Locate and select the copied .vmdk file. Click OK. * Create a New VM as usual using the added vmdk file * Boot the VM