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Couldn't seem to get any bites on this over at "AskDifferent" so thought I'd try here.
As I'm waiting for my new gleaming iMac to arrive, I'm considering buying OS X Server since it's only $20 now and offers Open Directory.
We have two MacBook Pros, so I'd like to have all of us able to log into any of the 3 Macs with our ID.
1) Can I simply switch from a local user to a network user without losing my home directory contents?
2) Is it just my home directory that is mirrored on the server? Or is it all the applications I've installed etc. For example, if I install an application on Laptop A will it show up on Laptop B?
3) I assume that when I have the laptop somewhere that the server is not available, that I can still get to all my home directory contents. They will then magically sync back up when I get back to my regular network?
Thanks in advance
I have something of a similar nature in my home.. A Mac server and two iMacs and a Macbook Pro running off it. For this to work properly the iMac has to be running constantly, or in a state where it can be waked through Ethernet (configurable in System Preferences). To answer your questions:
1) You can do this, but it isn't automatic. You need to copy the content from the local user to the networked user, essentially creating a new user account in the process and copying all of your existing content to that. If you feel adventurous, you could try this ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5338 ), which is Apple's method of converting a local account to a networked one, but it doesn't require some work in the terminal, which is a little much for some people.
2) The optimal setup is where the server is the basis for all of your files, and they are simply downloaded to your Macbooks when you log in. And then any changes that are made are reflected on the server, and hence everywhere you log in.
3) Mountain Lion makes this pretty easy, and it will sync every time the laptop returns to the local network. The best directions can be found here: ( https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4154950?start=0&tstart=0 ).
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So i have a challenge and question for you. My Windows 10 crashed itself yesterday evening with orange "bluescreen of death"(cursed be the guy or girl that designed cashing in Windows). I don't exactly remember the message but when laptop turned off... there was no longer detectable instance of Windows(cursed be the guy or girl designing boot part of Windows 10, only an idiot could do it like this).
Machine is Lenovo Y700 and Windows 10 x64.
That was the problem description part.
My troubleshoot part begins now. NONE OF THESE WORKED
I tried to check if that was hardware problem but all disks are detectable. Tried to reattach them. They all seem to be working fine.
Tried to change from UEFI boot to Legacy boot.
I created bootable repair USB and tried to chkdsk /r c:, nothing was corrupted there
Tried BOOTREC /SCANOS, BOOTREC /FIXMBR, BOOTREC /FIXBOOT, BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD.
Tried to automatic repair system. I knew it would not work as Windows troubleshoot tools are made by "dumb people" and they never work on Windows 10 but ok.(yes they are, in previous month my Windows 10 corrupted thanks to dumb system update cutting me from every program as they could not launch and menu start were frozen)
Tried revert to previous compilation but it cannot detect Windows Bootable Manager most probably, so no luck.
Cannot revert to base version as it does not see Windows at all.
Tried to install new Windows on top of the old one but it does not detect anything about it, so i don't even have the fricking WINDOWS KEY AS IT IS BUILT IN WINDOWS INSTANCE... GRRRRR
Now i need somebody to help me fix detection of Windows instance, so i can do anything about it. Please help.
You could try to remove the harddisk and conect is with an adapter to usb so it acts like an external drive, then install windows on it and place it back.
Or swap the disk in another laptop and do the same thing.
Or you could try to reinstall your bios (wich could cause even more headache)
Or perhaps your harddisk crashed and is not recoverable then replace your disk.
Or try to remove your RAM memory, perhaps that is corrupted..
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I am fairly new and interested in the Go programming language. I have the intention of using it to code a simple website that includes a shopping cart.
How to install golang on windows server? Is it the same process as a regular computer?
What steps do I take to deploy the website using the Windows server once it is finished.
To what extend is it required to use html, css, or javascript?
How can I keep the site running on the server for other users in our network/LAN to access it?
Any helpful information regarding web apps and/or windows server machines is appreciated!
This is as much a general dev ops question as it is specific to Go. A lot of things to consider here and everyone will have varying preferences but here are some guidelines I'd recommend:
It's not necessary to install the Go tool chain on your production server. You then have to maintain your Go installation on both your development and production environments and if your production server is a different OS than your Windows computer (eg. a Linux distribution) this will get out of hand quickly. Instead, just develop on your local and cross compile to the OS of your production server.
One thing you will need to keep on your production server is whatever DB you choose to work with your Go program.
You can then sftp or transfer through a method of your choice your compiled binary over to your production server along with your static web files. Once the binary is on your production server you can fire it up when you're SSH'ed in eg. ./programname
Depending on how you want to use Go, you don't need Apache. Use the net/http package to serve up your Html, CSS and JS files. You can transfer these static files over after you've worked on them on your local or you can just keep them in a Github repo and git pull them from your prod server as needed, assuming you've installed git there.
You generally don't need to worry about keeping it "running" on your production server. http.ListenAndServe listens on your port for incoming requests. If your server reboots or shuts downs you can automatically have your compiled binary start up along with it.
You can also work with things like Vagrant, Virtual Box and Ansible for high quality mimicking of your production environment and spinning up new servers according to your desired specs.
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I have a Windows 7 host machine with a VMWARE Workstation 9 based guest operating instance. What I need is that the guest OS to not only run but runs inside the guest in the VMWARE Workstation gui upon a host reboot--say, from a power failure. I have tried all solutions online but so far I am unable to make the GUI to appear--though the guest OS does launch.
Here is my solution so far: I have created a .bat file and setup Windows Task Scheduler to start the .bat program. Here is what's inside the batch file:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation"
vmrun start "C:\VirtualMachines\WindowsServer2012_std_ArcGISVM2\Windows Server 2012 Std.vmx" gui
Note, I am using 'vmrun' program but using other online solutions which use the VM Ware Workstation's executable doesn't help with the gui part either. And adding or removing the 'gui' flag doesn't seem to make any difference.
Also note, I'd rather not use the Workstation as a Server in a 'shared' virtual machine setup. There should be a simpler way.
Thanks!
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Never mind. I did end up creating a Shared VM per the instructions from another site (whose link is not working anymore!)
Here is how I accomplished this:
Using VMWare Workstation gui, pressed F9 to bring up option to enable Sharing of VMs.
In the Sharing window, right click on your VM ->Manage -> Share the VM; I chose default options.
In the same gui, under 'Shared VMs' tab, click 'Manage Auto Start'
That's all it took! And now I am able to launch the VMWare Workstation GUI after the host system reboots.
PS. I posted the Question here because I was originally using a script to achieve this; I thought there could be more scripts/programming solutions. Also, Expert Exchange maybe a competition but it provided me full solution yesterday without requiring any login; so, being a once paying member there, I had assumed that they have now become a 'free' site. But today their link doesn't work.
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At Home we have a lot of media Content on three computers. I was thinking of centralizing them on one single machine that runs a web server that hosts all the content, and when we fetch a URL like : http://localhost/music it will show a HTML file that lists all the music files on the computer, and when we click on a file, it gets downloaded.
I don't know what to use so as to make this thing, I think Apache as a server and PHP as a language..., any suggestions?
Install FreeNAS on your machine
http://www.freenas.org/
You don't even need to go that far. Just install apache on a computer and have your music folder be a web directory. You should be able to navigate to the page like so: http://whateverip/music/ and apache will serve up that html page like you are suggesting.
If using windows, XAMPP is a pretty good solution. You don't really need the PHP part, because all you need on the server after installing a WAMP solution, is to place all your content in the folder that the server uses.
If using Linux, definately install LAMP, there is an easy install of it whether using Ubuntu or other Linux distrubtions.
If using a MAC, there are similar solutions as LAMP. Some are hassle-free.
In any case, all of these use Apache as the server; that is the way to go. It's not as hard as you think, just install the software, and put your files in the appropriate directory, then from each of the other machines, to find the files you would probably type this into your address bar:
http://192.168.1.101/
Which of course is the address of the web server on your Local area network. It is very likely an address that is very similar to that, maybe ending with two different last two numbers.
I would second the freenas route if what you want to store is valuable to you in terms of time or money or electricity. It makes a great headless fileserver with web GUI, supports ZFS filesystem (similar to software RAID5 so you can lose a disk and not lose your data). More valuable to me it also supports replication to a duplicate server.
It can run on very low power hardware using freeBSD as the OS. I measured one of my boxes and it uses about 45 Watts. The OS loads from a USB stick so all your disks become data disks. It holds the system in RAM so your USB does not get any writes to it so the USB lasts a very long time. It will serve CIFS for your windows boxes, AFP for your macs, and NFS for your linux systems. Plug-ins allow for such things as DLNA media servers. I have had three boxes running stable with no reboots for over a year with 6x 3TB drives per box.
A typical hardware setup might be ASUS C60M1-I AMD Fusion board (combined CPU/VGA/NICC/6SATA)for about 75 bucks, 16GB RAM, PSU, USB stick - and voila - add 3 hard drives and you have a low-power RAID fileserver. Get two and you can replicate one server to another in a different physical location.
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Is it possible to clone a virtual machine using VMware Fusion on Mac OS X? I'm trying the 30 day evaluation version but there doesn't appear to be a clone feature. I tried using the Finder to copy a VM's package structure but the copy didn't appear in the Virtual Machine Library.
Just use File->open to open the copy of the VM. It will probably ask you if you want to change the VM's unique ID. If you plan to run both the original and the clone at the same time, and it's not a Windows OS that needs activation, you should say yes.
In the Virtual Machine Library window select the add button (upper left)
Select "New"
Select "Continue without Disc" button
Select "Use an existing virtual disk:"
browse to where the Vm you want to clone is located. On the bottom half of the screen you have 3 options. To create a totally separate VM select the first one " Make a separate copy of the viral disk" and just follow the instructions.
just copy the folder cp -R folder newfolder (in your docs folder) Open the folder in Vmware and say you copied it Have a look on weblog.jamisburk.org, august 15
as there may be issues with networking
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I don't know fusion in detail, but in VMWare Server you can just copy the files somewhere else.
Here are the instructions on VMware's site:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1001524
To copy the virtual machine:
Power off your virtual machine.
Note: Making a copy of a virtual machine while it is running or
suspended can create a copy that may not boot.
Find the virtual machine bundle. For more information, see Locating
the virtual machine bundle in VMware Fusion (1007599).
Drag the virtual machine bundle to the location where you want the
copied bundle to be. If you are copying it to the same folder or
somewhere else on your hard drive, hold down the option key -- this
tells Mac OS to copy the file rather than moving it. If you are moving
the bundle to another drive or a network share, Mac OS copies the file
automatically. The cursor is superimposed with a green circle and a
plus sign, indicating that a copy will be made.
Note: This does not affect your current virtual machine.
If you power
on the copied virtual machine, Fusion asks if you have moved the
virtual machine or copied it. Select that you Moved It (unless you
need to run the copied virtual machine at the same time as the
original). This indicates that it is the same virtual machine, just
starting from a new location, and keeps all of the settings the same.
Note: When you select the Copied It option, a new UUID and MAC address
are generated, which can cause Windows to require re-activation and
may cause network issues.