Mac Support Information
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Mac-related Support Information
PLEASE BE AWARE: THE YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT DOES NOT SUPPORT APPLE HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE FOR STUDENTS.
We are providing this information as a resource for those students who use Apple products.
User supported mac mailing list
There is a mailing list for Mac related issues located here:
To subscribe, unsubscribe or more information, visit: http://www.som.yale.edu/lists
Configuring your iPhone
Configuring your computer's wired ethernet and wireless (airyale) connections for the Yale network
Registering your computer for use on the Yale intranet and access to the internet from the Yale network
Creating a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection for secure, remote connection to the Yale network
Configuring email clients for your SOM Exchange Email Account
We have a dedicated page for setting up your Mac to connect to your SOM Exchange Email Account via various popular email clients. That page is available at SOM Exchange Email Account Connections
Connecting to SOM Network drives
Printing to SOM Printers
We have a dedicated page for setting up your Mac for printing. That page is available at Mac (OS X) Printing Setup Page.
Connecting to Yale wireless (airyale) from a Parallels virtual machine
We have a dedicated page that addresses the known issues when sharing your Intel Duo Mac airport connection to airyale with your Parallels guest os network interface. That page is available at Parallels Wireless Connection
Brightness issue under OS X 10.4 on various powerbooks
If you are encountering an issue on your powerbook where the LCDs gamma appears to be turned down completely, this is a known bug to apple (no information on the fix). That said, we found this web page http://scrap.dasgenie.com/articles/2005/05/01/mac-os-x-10-4-tiger-no-more-brightness-control-on-tibook-800-mhz that describes various workarounds. We found that the following steps (although slightly redundant, do work):
1.) Shutdown the powerbook. 2.) Remove the battery. 3.) Lift the keyboard, and press the reset button for one minute. This is located in the upper right quadrant beneath the keyboard. I suggest using a pen to press the button. 4.) Boot your mac with: ""Open Apple (command)-option-O-F"" . This will boot you into open-firmware. 5.) type the follow commands: ""reset-nvram"" and "" reset-all"" 6.) The machine will reboot, and your display should be set back to normal. Please be aware that until apple releases a fix, your brightness keys will not work, and the brightness sliders underneath displays will not be present.
Changing Default JavaVM
OSX keeps prior versions of the Java JDE's installed, this allows you to choose which version you wish to use for your development projects. To quickly change the OSX default here is a script:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060121171126988
Interoperability with Windows 2003 Server
- From Administrative Tools, open Domain Controller Security Settings.
- Go to Local Policies then Security Options.
- Scroll down to find the entry Microsoft network server: Digitally sign communications (always). Set this to Disabled.
- The only thing left to do is to reload the security policy, as changes don’t otherwise take effect for some time. Open up a command window and type:
gpupdate
--Admin 09:23, 19 Oct 2006 (EDT)
