Category: Tips

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

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-

We’ve been intrigued by Slacks’ open source secure mesh software ‘Nebula’ for a while, and finally got some time to see if our clients could benefit from an implementation. In short, the answer is yes. **note this article became too big so deployment will be next, but this will get you running Goals It solves a lot of problems and

We’ve recently installed a 3CX system where the phones are Fanvil and the door intercoms are Grandstream. Maybe this is just balancing the one from last year with Grandstream phones and a Fanvil PA2 to control the door… 3CX doesn’t have any native way to control these relays. so for the Fanvil phones you have to log into each phone

The Short Version TL;DR – add a DNS server that’s not on either network and is publicly accessible, and possibly also a static route. Also maybe set the VPN profile to a higher priority… **I’ve thought over this and of course the solution seems obvious. But the doc from Ubiquiti makes it sound difficult, so not really sure what is

No, this isn’t a MySpace joke, we’re waaaay too old and sensible for that. I was browsing my Backup Synology and trying to figure out why it was showing no space available on a 30TB volume. I don’t have that many linux iso’s, do I? The answer turned out to be in this magical post – thanks Martin Chou! In

I really wanted a new way of displaying outdated computers in MunkiReport (fantastic tool by the way, thanks to the authors/ contributors!) but I was deeply confused by the terminology, and this post is an attempt to write down my needs and prepare for getting it exactly right in future… What is the goal? I need to be able to

Just recently stumbled on this issue. Symptoms- despite having admin or root privileges, you can’t delete a user account in System Preferences/ Users & Groups. According to this- https://medium.com/@ambroselittle/cant-delete-original-admin-user-on-macos-high-sierra-1d79fb438246 and this https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/376113/catalina-ask-password-to-delete-user-but-password-is-always-wrong It’s a hangover from ‘ye olden days’ and requires quite a lot of complex manoeuvres to fix. Well, I got lazy and did this bit- System Preferences >

I realise my post titles are looking more and more like cries for help, but what can you do? Issue- Needed to connect a MySQL database to Zoho Analytics to torture some data. Zoho provides a connector for this which is (argh) Java based and also requires the Oracle driver to be installed separately… but installing MariaDB requires installing Brew