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Updated dfstool v1.1 Now Available

Posted on August 1st, 2011 Jorge Escala 18 comments

After a great launch that included a mention in MacWorld’s Mac OS X Hints, I’ve decided to make my command line tool for querying and connecting to DFS shares from Mac OS X even better. After all, it was a 1.0 release so there was bound to be room for improvement. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback and suggestions.

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Access DFS Shares from Mac OS X

Posted on July 14th, 2011 Jorge Escala 10 comments

The storage admins where I work have gone DFS mad. But if you’re a Mac user, that would just make you plain old mad. That’s because as great as DFS is for Windows users on an Active Directory domain, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard doesn’t know what to do with DFS paths.

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Red Hat Network Patch Reports

Posted on June 18th, 2011 Jorge Escala 1 comment

Here is a little perl script I made to produce CSV formatted reports of missing patches on all your servers registered with Red Hat Network. The script produces a brief report with a count of missing updates per server and a verbose report with a detailed list of all the updates that are missing per server.

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