Questions tagged [mac-osx]

Question 1

I suddenly saw under /tmp the following directories which made me a bit suspicious, thought that maybe i have a hacker that push things out via some job running on my Mac total 8 drwxrwxrwx@ 7 myself ...

Question 2

I have a macOS device which has a "Secure Home Folders in macOS" security recommendation in Defender for Endpoint. We have already applied the recommended remediation (pictured) and the ...

Question 3

NFS server: macOS 13.0.1 22A400 NFS client: Ubuntu 24.0.3 LTS, Linux 6.14.0-33 There is one specific file on the server that cannot be read by the NFS client. Any process attempting to read this file ...

Question 4

I want to reverse proxy multiple services on the same machine (bare metal macOS), over HTTPS and Tailscale, without a custom domain (i.e. just using machine.tailnet.ts.net). I don't care if the ...

Question 5

I’m trying to join macOS Sequoia to a Samba 4 Active Directory domain, but the join consistently fails when using LDAPS. Environment: Samba 4 AD DC on Debian 13 (dc1.example.lan) Internal CA, TLS ...

Question 6

I am checking static routes configured by default on my macOS running Sequoia. I do not understand this one: ~ ❯ ip route default via 192.168.1.1 dev en9 ... 198.18.0.0/15 via lo0 dev lo0 ... what is ...

Question 7

I am trying to use an Ubuntu Samba SMB share as a MacOS X Time Machine backup volume. The SMB mount shows up on the desktop but the Time Machine configuration does not show the volume as a possible ...

Question 8

macOS client split tunnels problem. macOS Sequoia 15.5 (Apple Silicon) & Sonoma 14.7.6 (Intel). Windows 11 WireGuard works fine with split tunnels with exact same config file that doesn't work on ...

Question 9

I was able to install it without errors, but then when I launch the app from taskbar or start menu, nothing happens. I can still launch the older version SSMS 20 in VMware fusion just fine. I've tried ...

Question 10

I'm using the following command to test network speed to my.remote.server, from my workstation: dd if=/dev/random | pv | ssh my.remote.server "dd of=/dev/null" When I set en0 to 10Gb, ...

Question 11

I have a network setup with router/gateway and a separate raspberry box. On the raspberry, dnsmasq is running and able to answer dns queries relating to the local domain and the internet. I have ...

Question 12

I have a Tailscale network. One of the devices advertises a subnet router for 10.1.2.0/24, therefore allowing me to remotely access parts of my network that don't have, and are not compatible with, ...

Question 13

Experimenting using some old equipment to serve a 8 bay RAID over 10gbe network, using a 2019 MacPro as a server. This unit is currently running Monterey. Initial testing yields good results to a ...

Question 14

Suddenly after restarting the machine, I have been facing this error can't connect to MySQL server and table plus is not able to connect with localhost 127.0.0.1. The steps below worked for me, and ...

Question 15

At my company we’ve just outsourced our IT and MDM, and have had to rethink allowing personal Apple accounts on Macbooks. Our devs (all on Mac) have had their local admin revoked, and the MSP now has ...

Question 16

Does anyone know if there's a way to configure Docker Desktop for Mac to recognize the ZScaler Root CA without having to modify individual base images? Right now I keep getting SSL certificate problem:...

Question 17

Cross-posted from superuser as I was unable to resolve this issue and haven gotten any replies yet. Maybe this community is more suited to help? Thank you! I have a Fedora Server VM on macOS Sonoma ...

Question 18

I need help with postfix on OSX. Testing with this command: echo "test email" | mail -s "test email" [email protected]``` Doesn't produce output in /var/mail/jeff postfix is running: ...

Question 19

From Centos 8 linux I need to transfer some files to some MacOS machines. It works from Linux to MacOS 10.13: sftp danny@Mac10_13_Machine The authenticity of host '192.168.2.3 (192.168.2.3)' can't be ...

Question 20

I found this question but it mostly has Linux-related answers. How to create a UUID in bash?

Question 21

We use proprietary client/server software that includes a file browser that displays the file structure of an SMB share. The content is read server-side, and presented to the user in a browser window ...

Question 22

We have a small business LAN with one Router/Switch (a NetGear D6200). The devices on this LAN are: 2 Macs (1 connected via Ethedrnet, 1 wireless) 1 Synology NAS (via Ethernet) 1 Linux VM hosted on ...

Question 23

I'm deploying Platform SSO to allow our Mac users to sign into their devices without the need for a "build process", similar to autopilot on Windows. I've followed this guide and it all ...

Question 24

Sometimes in Finder on Mac OSX users cannot see some files. Which files are not visible seems random. It doesn't depend on the version of Mac OSX, and doesn't depend on the version of SMB. I have ...

Question 25

I'm having problems syncing MacOS 15.2 Monterey with NTP service running on a DSM6.2 Synology NAS. $sudo sntp -sS 10.XX.XX.XX } sntp: Exchange failed: Timeout sntp_exchange { result: 6 (...

Question 26

I'm running an Ansible play that is cross-compiling with Xcode on MacOS. When I run printev in my playbook, I see this value: SDKROOT=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX....

Question 27

I am having an issue with Ansible Lint not finding community.general modules: > ansible-lint <redacted>.yml WARNING Listing 1 violation(s) that are fatal syntax-check[unknown-module]: couldn'...

Question 28

If you navigate to https://shell.cloud.google.com/?show=ide%2Cterminal page on macOS Safari, then you can't actually see the editor—fails with a We can't load the code editor here because third-party ...

Question 29

I have a simple HTML page hosted on an old mac desktop (Catalina) on the in-built apache server. The problem is when I browse to the IP on chrome after a while, the website is down. But as soon as I ...

Question 30

I am running on a Mac. I volunteer at a local church. I created a site to site VPN so that I can monitor their traffic and other resources. When I am at the local church, I am unable to connect ...

Question 31

This is only affecting a subset of machines, and isn't affected by the presence of MDM profiles. At least if they are removed the issue persist. There are many Google search results for errors related ...

Question 32

This is a big question, so I'm only looking for a high-level overview answer to help me research the bits I don't know. Essentially the problem is this: I need to take a dedicated Mac Mini (or similar ...

Question 33

I used brew to install rabbitmq. However, it seems to be unable to start properly. This is what happens: Tom@MacOS:/opt/homebrew/var/log/rabbitmq % brew services start rabbitmq ...

Question 34

I am running macOS Monterey 12.7.1 with Server.app (which provides OpenDirectory) I want to use dsexport or dscl to export the LDAPv3 that contains my network users. But I'm running into many problems ...

Question 35

I have generated local CA and Cert on my Mac, from this walkthrough: https://blog.arrogantrabbit.com/ssl/Root-CA-macOS/ I then provide the certificate/key to nginx local server, that I visit with my ...

Question 36

I'm installing a gitlab-runner service on MacOS using brew install gitlab-runner, after which I can start the service using brew services start gitlab-runner. If I start the service with sudo (or from ...

Question 37

I have just upgraded an Ubuntu server and during the upgrade, I decided to keep all old versions of .conf files instead of replacing them with the upgraded package versions. Now, I have to go and ...

Question 38

I have a situation where I need to maintain the same IP address and/or hostname between two network interfaces on several macOS laptops: the ethernet and wifi. The topology is such that there is a ...

Question 39

Problem On my MacBook Pro running Mac OS 10.15.7, I cannot do outbound scp, sftp, or rsync to seemingly any server (I've tried ~10 I own). I also cannot run remote commands by ssh, e.g. ssh ...

Question 40

Starting from two files ~/foo/bar1.txt ~/foo/bar2.txt on my Mac's root volume, I copy the folder ~/foo (it's large; this is just an example) to /Volumes/Kiwi. I know from past experience that Finder ...

Question 41

I encountered a problem when trying to connect to a VPN server configured in IKEv2 from MacOS (Ventura 13.4.1) on a fresh install. The VPN server is a RRAS hosted in a Windows server 2019, its ...

Question 42

We have been using tailscale for several years now without too many issues. I have a user whose device cannot ping 8.8.8.8 when tailscale is started. There are no tailscale exit nodes involved and the ...

Question 43

I'm working on automating the installation of a macOS application using Ansible. I am installing the application by copying its .app folder from a .dmg image to the /Applications/ directory. After ...

Question 44

I've got a strange problem here involving some versions of PHP installed in my local machine (MacOS Ventura 13.5). Certain pages (two at this moment) doesn't load in some versions of PHP. It's loads ...

Question 45

I have a MikroTik hEXs router (firmware v6.47.1) which I want to flash with OpenWRT. The OpenWRT wiki site has detailed instructions on the procedure, and it requires that one netboot the router. My ...

Question 46

This question was originally asked on SO, which is incorrect. As I was not able to (get it) moved to serverfault, I am re-asking it. I am trying to configure tab completion for the ssh command in zsh ...

Question 47

Please help. I've read so many topics of not-quite-the-same problem and none of them have guided me to my answer. When trying to connect to a server using any FTP client, I get this error: /etc/ssh/...

Question 48

My new Mac Mini M2 has Ventura 13.3.1 pre-installed. Unfortunately, that MacOS version is notorious for the mouse stuttering/lagging. Both my bluetooth mouse and my Logitech mouse with dongle are ...

Question 49

I'm using MAMP Pro on my Mac (Monterrey) and since a couple weeks I've been having a strange problem. After several tests I've been unable to find out where the problem is, but this is what happens. ...

Question 50

Unfortunately, when onedrive stopped working, I ran the onedrive reset tool. This created a directory under /user/me/ called "OneDrive-Personal (Archive)". Now onedrive is working again, i ...