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Mac Deployment AirPrint EFI E100 Printer with Mosyle

Well, the Foigus Autopkg driver I ‘built‘ in 2019 using this article finally stopped working in macOS Monterey. And I wasn’t sure the same process would work or be very durable this time around… After asking around (and thanks to Foigus for answering my questions) I thought I’d try something new, and it worked, so here is the method… Here’s

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State of The Mac 2022- Updated Feb 2022

If you’re buying a new Mac this year, what specs to recommend? I have updated each of the categories with new recommendations as needed. All prices lifted directly from Apple Australia MacBook Pro 13 inch models Models Updated November 2020- now with M1 chip! Entry level- M1, 8 core CPU, 8 core GPU, 256GB SSD $1899 Nice machine, but I’d

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Slack Nebula Secure Mesh on Synology

**Warning- this post isn’t finished, I’m posting it so I can get help!   Synology install Instructions here https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/pull/357/files/7d4b460d1a1054c2eeab53b14d9c648baaf7bd5f Grab the shell script, modify it to your requirements – Script requires you to set the location of both .pid and log files. Shouldn’t have been difficult but it took me ages to figure out ok on my Intel based Synology

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Slack Nebula Secure Mesh on Docker

**Warning this post isn’t finished! there’s also another project to consider now at https://github.com/elestio/nebula-rest-api From a look at the GitHub issues, it seems that there’s problems getting Slack’s Nebula open source project to run in an Alpine Docker image. But just recently, someone has packaged up, apparently with a new base image. So I downloaded it, and deployed it on

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Download Latest from Github

This took way too long to work out, so I figure it’s worth a post- You want to script getting the latest version of ‘product x’ from Github, but don’t want to deal with version numbers etc. I saw loads of posts that used awk, sed, regex and various JSON extractors but nothing did what I wanted (and could understand)

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Signing and Notarising a Mac binary written in Go

This post is heavily ‘borrowed’ from this post on Stack Overflow- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64652704/how-to-notarize-an-macos-command-line-tool-created-outside-of-xcode And I’ve also liberally borrowed from this script, with many thanks to Armin Briegel. In fact, the way things turned out I could have just used that script, because what I needed was to sign and notarise a command line tool, and that’s exactly the contents of that post.

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Wireguard and Netmaker on Synology

This post is meant for people who already have Netmaker server set up- something that is covered pretty well in the documentation and also on Youtube. If you want to add an Intel based Synology device to your existing Netmaker network with Netclient, read on! First install Wireguard There are some prebuilt binaries here, but not for DSM 7. I

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Retrospect Full Disk Access via Mosyle MDM

According to this doc- https://www.retrospect.com/en/support/kb/macos_full_disk_access We need to give Full Disk Access to both RetrospectInstantScan and Retrospect Client. For this we need to find out the App Identifier and Code Requirements for each. Retrospect Client application is in /Library/PreferencePanes/Retrospect\ Client.app RetrospectInstantScan item is in /Library/Application\ Support/Retrospect/RetrospectInstantScan.app For these examples the first line is the command, the subsequent lines are the

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Unifi WiFi QR Code for Guests

Background info- This post from Reddit WiFi QR-Code websites below- https://qifi.org https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/#wifi https://www.qr-code-generator.com/solutions/wifi-qr-code/ I tested the first link- QiFi – very simple and it works well. The other links are added so I can come back and experiment more. Certainly QR Code Monkey looks great because of all the customisations you can add- I’d be pretty keen to add a

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Migrate LDAP Data between Synology units

This is a bit of a crappy tip because it’s so obvious, but all the other walkthroughs either wouldn’t bring across passwords or looked really complicated! There wasn’t anything online with specifics, so here we go- If you want to move an LDAP Server from one Synology unit to another without replacing the entire DSM and associated bits, do this-

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