Author: Christopher Scott
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Shell script to force share unmount
Some of my users have recently run in to a problem where a mounted file share begins to malfunction. Specifically, the share no longer appears to be mounted to the system (no desktop icon, no line item along the left-side nav bar in Finder windows) yet, when one goes to (re)mount the share, the “Connect…
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Tips for choosing an office printer vendor
This isn’t the most glamorous topic, but I recently found an e-mail I had sent to a former co-worker who had asked me for some advice about finding a good printer vendor for his ad agency and thought the advice I passed on might be useful…
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Mass distribute printer configurations to Mac users
We recently upgraded our office’s printers and I found myself faced with the prospect of updating the printer configurations of each-and-every Mac in the office. In the past, I’ve done it via “SneakerNet” but decided it was time to figure out how to do it remotely. Fortunately, it turns out to not be too difficult.