I find frequently that the Remote Desktop Agent will stop responding – but I can ssh to the machine and if I use the gui to restart the ARD agent I can access it again. To restart it through ssh type the following:
/System/Library/StartupItems/RemoteDesktopAgent/RemoteDesktopAgent restart
Source:
Apple – Support – Discussions – Reset (stop and start) Apple Remote …
This donation-ware software makes it very easy:
Sharepoints
You need to download Flip4Mac which will allow you to play WMV files through Quicktime.
http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm
Source:
MacRumours
This will let you point your clients to a new login server for directory access through the command line. You can use this in the send unix command through Apple Remote Desktop.
dsconfigldap -v -a 10.X.X.X -n ConfigName -u NetworkAdmin -p NetworkPass -l LocalAdmin -q LocalPass
These commands will enable passwordless ssh authentication for use with rsync or other options. Run these on the client you are trying to ssh from.
sudo ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /private/var/root/.ssh/id_dsa -C “My Client”
sudo cat /private/var/root/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh user@server ‘cat – >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys’
sudo cat /private/var/root/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> /private/var/root/.ssh/authorized_keys
Source:
Mike Bombich
Here is a good article summarizing Microsoft’s development of Office for the Mac – and their plans to support the Intel platform.
If you got some time to spare – check out Steve Jobs and the new Intel Macs!
MacWorld 2006 Keynote (Quicktime Feed)
Source:
MacWorld Conference and Expo
