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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: johnaris[/u][p]Is there a software that can control a macintosh in a windows, we have some automation systems and most of their tech guys are using windows, they want to control some of the xserve in thier windows boxes. [/p][/QUOTE]

You could always turn on screen sharing in leopard or apple remote desktop in tiger or earlier in the utilities menu under system preferences. Inside it you will find an option to enter a VNC password. Once you have that set, use your VNC password and your favorite VNC program (I suggest UltraVNC) to control the mac.

Good Luck,
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Since you still should have a local account, you can boot from your install disk and choose change password under the tools menu. Select the proper account and change the password to something else. Once you reboot, you should be able to login again.

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You should be able to boot from your install disk and run ARD for your backup. You might also look into carbon copy cloner. It is a very good program with detailed instructions on its site. The site can be found here http://bombich.com/

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When I have experienced this sort of problem, it is usually a print driver issue. Usually you will have the option of downloading either a pcl or ps driver. Make sure you try both to see if one of them works for that particular program. I have found that drivers can be hit or miss at times. Also on a mac, sometimes selecting a generic driver will resolve this problem.

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Are you wanting the windows users profile to be stored on the server to be transfered back and forth to a mac, or are you just wanting a user to access file sharing from a windows machine?

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Are you wanting the windows users profile to be stored on the server to be transfered back and forth to a mac, or are you just wanting a user to access file sharing from a windows machine?

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: ChrisOwens[/u][p]
(This is a duplicate to a question I posted in the “File Serving” area; not sure if it belonged there or here)

[url]https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=19231[/url]

I would like to set up an environment under Leopard in which each user’s home directory is hosted on his or her primary workstation, but is also accessible as a network home from other machines via afp.

What is a reasonable way to set up the directory entries so that when the user logs in on a miscellaneous machine, the home directory will auto-mount, but when he or she logs in to the primary workstation, the home directory will be available locally and the workstation won’t go nuts trying to network mount its own fileshares?

Beyond “reasonable”, what’s a standard way of doing this?
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It is called mobility. All you need to do is setup a network share and set it up to automount. Once done, select that user and click on preferences in workgroup manager. You will find an option for mobility, that will do what you are wanting it to.

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Yes, I have something similar happening. It is afp failing. I have to stop and start the afp share. Apple claims it is Open Directory failing and says it can be resolved quickly by typing the following command in terminal: [b]sudo killall -HUP AppleFileServer[/b]

So far this hasn’t worked for me, but some users are claiming this works.

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Basically, we are using the leopard server for home directories. Each user logs in and automounts their profile from the server. For no reason at all, users won’t be able to log in. It tells them that their home directory is on an AFP or SMB share that is not available. If I log in locally to a client machine, I can’t access an AFP either. No services are stopped. Everything appears fine. Stopping and restarting the AFP service usually allows users to login, occasionally we have to reboot. That’s it in a nutshell. We can find no good reason for this and it happens at random times. This can happen multiple times in a day or it may skip a day. Other users are reporting similar problems on Apple’s forums, but no solution has been found.

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