Mac OS X Tips
For University purchased hardware, call the Apple Education Support number - 1-800-800-2775.
Yes, you should really really get the 3 year AppleCare service. If anything goes wrong, the contract will have paid for itself. You can purchase the contracts within a year of purchasing the computers; the 3 years is still 3 years from original purchase date.
Select System Preferences -> Sharing-> Remote Login and your SSH daemon will start up
Cycle through all your terminal windows with "Cmnd-RtArrow" or "Cmnd-LeftArrow"
OS X ships with a a GUI frontending a few network tools, such as a port scanner. /Applications/Utilities/Network Utility
Not tested yet, but Apple Support Article ID# 25344 refers to a 1 time mount. Finder ->Go->Connect to Server, then type in nfs://<hostname>/path/to/dir.
More persistent mounts, Apple Support Article ID # 107301 holds the exports man page (not in 10.2.2).
last updated: January 7, 2003 11:24 PM by jmstarr