macOS – Editing the Hosts File
KB ID 0001268 Another guest post from Daniel Newton Problem I’ve had windows for years; I knew the OS inside out. Recently, I switched to Mac. But I wondered how to edit the hosts file for my VPN connections and my servers. After some research, I found out how to do it and thought I will document it on PeteNetLive! 🙂 Solution Open a terminal session and type in the following command; Sudo nano /etc/hosts Note: I’m using nano for this...
Mac OSX – Testing Packet Fragmentation Over VPN
KB ID 0001204 Problem Many moons ago I wrote a post about a problem where I had no RDP over a VPN connection, and all the hoops I jumped though to troubleshoot and fix the problem. Today I had a similar problem, I was connected to a client via Cisco AnyConnect, and I had hair-pinned that traffic, from the client site, over an IPSEC VPN to their servers in the Data Center. Pings were successful, but not RDP. To be honest this affects...
Apple Mac OSX – Send a ‘Function Key’ Keystroke
KB ID 0001131 Problem I was remotely connected to one of My Dell servers via a DRAC. I needed to enter the ‘boot sequence’ at startup and that meant pressing F11 at the server boot seen. However F11 on the mac shows the desktop. Solution To Send a ‘function keystroke’ you need to press Fn+cmd+{function key} Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links NA
MAC OSX Outlook – Open Multiple POP Email Accounts in Their Own Folders
KB ID 0001044 Problem I’ve been slowly migrating from a Windows Laptop to a MacBook Pro. And Office 15 for Mac is great, I had my work Exchange Email up in no time, then I configured my POP email accounts. The problem is Outlook puts all POP mail in one folder called ‘on my computer’. I have a quite a few POP email accounts, and I like to keep them all separate. Solution I will assume you already have your POP email...