Can Macintosh computer join Active Directory? The answer is yes. Before joining a Mac OS X machine to the Active Directory, you need to know the domain of your Active Directory Server and your login credential.

To join/bind your Macintosh machine to Active Directory, just follow below steps:-

• Log into the Apple computer you want to join to the domain. You must be logged into an account with Administrator access.
• Open the Directory Utility, which is located in:
  10.5 (Leopard): /Applications/Utilities
  10.6 (Snow Leopard): /System/Library/CoreServices

• click the padlock and enter your password to unlock the Directory Utility.
• Click the checkmark next to Active Directory to enable Active Directory support. After that, highlight Active Directory and click on the Pencil icon at the bottom of the directory list to configure the Active Directory connection.
• Enter the name of your Active Directory domain and the computer name you wish to bind your machine as. Just leave the directory forest set to “Automatic”

• Click Bind…and enter the name and password of a domain administrator when prompted.

• Now your machine will be bound to the Active Directory domain without any error.
• Click Apply in the Directory Utility to save your changes.

If you facing join Active Directory domain from you Mac, please leave your comment.

By default, Mac OS X only able to read NTFS format hard driver. But it cannot write to it, This means we unable to write file size larger than 4GB to hard drives.

I just subscribe Maxis broadband with HUAWEI E1762 USB modem. I tried to install it on my Mac OS X 10.5 Machine. It works fine. But recently whenever I use the mobile partner dashboard in Mac OS X,the dialog “The application NetworkStatus quit unexpectedly.” pop up continuously and unable to connect.

I tired to click on report button to view the error message, it look like NetworkStatus crashed.

Finally i found a patch from HUAWEI web site. The patch name called NetworkStatusPatch. I tried to install the patch and the NetworkStatus crash problem was solved.

Below are the few simple steps to solve this problem:-

• Download NetworkStatusPatch
• After that, follow the on screen instruction to install the patch.

• Once the installation completed, you can restart the application.

My HR Department have one desktop PC, one MacBook and iMac connected on HR network. There is a printer connected via USB to the iMac machine. They want me to help them setting it up to be shared with Mac machines and Windows Machine. So i have to figure out how to do the printer sharing. But sharing the printer from the iMac to Windows machines was significantly more difficult.
To make your Windows Machine communicate with your Apple Machines, you need to have Bonjour protocol. You have to install Bonjour for Windows to you Windows Machines , you can share your printer with them in the same way you’d share it with Mac OS X users.

Below are some simple steps to share printer with Windows users:-

On the Mac (the one that the USB printer that you want to share is connected to):

1. Go to System Preferences and open Print & Fax.
2. Check to see if your printer is installed (ie.HP1020).
3. Go to the Sharing preferences panel to ensure Printer Sharing and Windows Sharing are both turned on.

On the Windows PC:

1. Click HERE to download Bonjour for Windows.
2. Install Bonjour.
3. Follow the steps for setting up Bonjour.

Once you have found your shared printer on the network and it asks you to specify the driver, go with the Generic Postscript.

Click on Finish to add the printer.

I tried to print from my Windows machine, it work for me. Hope this post will help you

Windows XP/Vista/7
Run ipconfig/all from a Command Prompt window.

• click Start, then Run, then type cmd in the text box.

• Type in ipconfig/all in the Command Prompt Windows and press enter

You should get something like this

Your MAC Address is listed under ‘Physical Address’ as a series of 6 groups of two digits, letters and numbers, separated by dashes, such as in the image below. Make sure you get the physical address of the correct network adapter – usually there are several listed.

Linux

On Linux systems, you must login as root user first before you find the Mac Address

• Launch your terminal
• Type the following command to become root user

[ahkwai@techkaki ~]$ su -
Password:

• Then, type ifconfig. Example:-


MAC OS X

Choose “System Preferences...” from the Apple menu. Then select “Network.” Double-click on “Airport” or “Built-in Ethernet” depending on how you access the Internet or your network.

For ‘Built-in Ethernet’, select the Ethernet tab.  Read the MAC address labeled ‘Ethernet ID:’.

I just got my Snow Leopard MacBook. But i had some problems getting my Huawei E220 3G USB modem running under Snow Leopard. I tried to find updated drive to make my Huawei E220 3G USB modem work under Snow Leopard.

Below are the steps to get the modem working:

• Download the latest MobileConnectDriver Mac package from Huawei
• Unzip MobileConnectDriver(4.16.00.00).zip and install it
• Plug the modem into your Mac’s USB port and wait until the modem stops flashing green.
• Open System preferences and the Network pane. Select the HUAWEI Mobile Modem interface in the list and
• Now setup your service by entering a telephone number. My case is i using Celcom Broadband, so i enter telephone number as *99***1# and enter the Account Name and Password (my case, i enter celcom as username and the password provided by celcom).
• Then click the Advanced button. Set Model to GRPS GSM/3G and enter your APN for your provider (for celcom, use celcom3g) and leave CID as 1.
• Click Apply and then click the Connect button back on the Network Preferences window, and you should connect as below:

Quick Look is a quick preview feature which was introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Quick look allow us to preview the files, multiple page documents and video with opening them. You just have to select the files in the Finder and press the Space bar to preview it.

Today, i will going to show you a trick on Quick look. This trick called X-Ray Folder. This feature is hidden by default. We need to enable it through Terminal. Normally when we Quick Look on folder, it will show the regular folder icon. But if you enable X-Ray Folder feature,  the folder icon will be semi-transparent, with previews of the folder’s contents visible in the Quick Look window.

Let see the screen shoot without enable X-Ray Folder

Screen shoot with enable X-Ray Folder

How to enable X-Ray Folder

1st – Quit the Finder via Activity Monitor

After that, launch your Terminal and enter this command:

defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableXRayFolders 1

Done

How to turn off X-Ray Folder

Just repeat above steps and enter the same command with change 1 to 0 in your Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableXRayFolders 0

Normal user when they want to delete their files, they will drag their files to Trash and select Empty Trash. But, after you empty the Trash, deleted files can be recovered using data-recovery software. Empty Trash just free the space that occupies by your deleted data and let the Mac OS X to use the free space to write the new files or data.

To delete files so that they cannot be recovered, choose Finder > Secure Empty Trash

If you want to always Empty Trash securely, just follow the following steps:-

First, select Preferences from your Finder menu or used the keyboard shortcut <command> + <,> to open Finder Preferences window.

On Finder Preferences windows, click on the Advanced tab. After that, just check the “Empty Trash securely” box.

Secure Empty Trash will take a linger time to delete all the unwanted files and overwrite the existing sector. This is a reason why Empty Trash securely option is not enable by default.

By default, Mac OS X hire all files extension. If you want to show file extensions, just choose to show extensions for all files.

First, select Preferences from your Finder menu or used the keyboard shortcut <command> + <,> to open Finder Preferences window.

On Finder Preferences windows, click on the Advanced tab. After that, just check the “Show all file extensions” box. All file extensions will now be visible both on the desktop and in open windows.

To hire file extensions

If you want to hide file extensions again, simply uncheck the “Show all file extensions” box.

One of my friend called me on last week regarding his wireless Airport password. He forgotten his wireless Airport password. He checked the “remember this network” option when he first connected wireless few month ago.

A lot of people do not like to remember their password. They just simply save their password. Actually all the password that they saved will remain in Keychain Access. We can retrieve it using Keychain Access utility.

Below are the steps:-

Step 1: Launch the Keychain Access utility.

• Open Keychain Access (you can get to it by choosing Utilities from the Go menu in the Finder) or (press command+space to launch your spotlight and type keychain Access to find it).
• Just click on Keychain Access icon to launch the application

• When you launch this utility, you’ll be presented with a list of all the passwords you’ve told your computer to remember

Step 2: Get info on the password item that you are looking for

• Just Scroll down the main window to find the password item you need.
• Select “Get Info” from the file menu to see the entry details. You can also double-click the entry to quickly bring up the details.

Step 3: Click on the “Show password” option.

• Click on the “Show password” button. A screen will pop out to require you to enter the login keychain password. (usually your Mac login password)

• Just enter the password and click Allow button
• Now your password will show at the show password text box

P/S:- Besides the wireless Airport password, you still can find your email password, shared folder password, samba password,user account login password and other saved password.