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The lastest Get A Mac ad sums up my feelings about vista.

Funny, M$ Winders, MacOSX Funny, M$ Winders, MacOSX

To configure the ldapsearch command on MacOSX (10.4 server is what I am working with at the moment) to work with ssl based LDAP servers there are couple of steps you need to do:

First create an key and certificate for the ldapsearch command to use. This can be done by using the following command:

This places the key in /etc/openldap/ldap-key.pem and the certificate in /etc/openldap/ldap.pem. Now if you are using a self signed certificate on your LDAP servers place a copy of CA certificate in /etc/openldap/cacerts/

Next edit the file /etc/openldap/ldap.conf and do the following:

First change the line that says : TLS_REQCERT from never to allow
Next add a line to your CACERT:
TLS_CACERT /etc/openldap/cacerts/mycaroot.crt

Then the lines for your client key and cert:
TLS_CERT /etc/openldap/ldap.pem
TLS_KEY /etc/openldap/ldap-key.pem

now you should be able to do an ldap search using ssl like this:

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I found this program last night Delicious Library, it is for Mac, and is really neat. What it does it creates an inventory of your DVD’s, CD’s, Games, and books, but the best part is you have to type next to nothing. It uses the bar codes on the items and pulls the information from the Internet. It uses the iSight camera (which is built in to all the new Intel Macbook/MacBook Pro and iMac’s). I used the demo version and it got most everything I put in front of it, even my Sun LDAP blue print book.

If you have a mac and an iSight camera, you should check it out.. Now if I can just get it to do some other things as well..

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Well I got tired of not having a good Citrix client for Solaris X86, and the one for MacOSX sucks because of the fixed window size. (The solaris sparc client lets you have seemless windows, but the MacOSX one doesn’t for some really stupid reason.)

Any ways, I decided to try and figure out how to get the JAVA Citrix Web client to run locally with out the need for a web server. Well tonight I figured it out, and it works so far for what I need. It does give one error on startup, but it does not affect the use of the client as far as I know.

So how do you do it? Pretty “easy”:

1. Download the Citrix JAVA client (I got 9.3) from Citrix’s web site, Note, it will say that you should not try to install it your self… well I can’t read that part
2. Unzip it in to a directory, I.E. /home/{userid}/citrix
3. Create an App script, for example this is what I use for accessing GroupWise (eck!) from Citrix:
   #!/bin/sh
   CLASSPATH="JICA-coreN.jar:JICA-browseN.jar:JICA-configN.jar:JICA-seamlessN.jar:JICA-clipboardN.jar:$CLASSPATH"
   export CLASSPATH
   /usr/bin/java  com.citrix.ConnectionCenter -address:CitrixICA.Server.Addrses -InitialProgram:"#GroupWise 65 SP4" \
   -HTTPBrowserAddress:CitrixICA.Server.Address -TWIMode:on -desiredcolor:4
4. The desiredcolor make is so that it uses the higher color palette, otherwise you get the nice 256 colors
5. TWIMode is for the Seamless windows
6. Initial Program is the name of the App that is published on the Citrix Server.

I tested this from my MacOSX 10.4.6 MacBookPro, and from my Solaris 10 x86 machine. Works fine on both. I will say though don’t tr to run it in TWM (I ran it through vnc), not fun to deal with right now. Hope this helps some other people who are missing a good client for each of these os’. I am going to see about drive mapping next.

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If you have an MacBook Pro and are having problems with PEAP authenication on the Wireless network, check this Discussion out on Apple’s web site. Seems if you put the MacMini wireless driver kernel extension on the MacBook pro, it works. Which is how I am writing this.. Finally, just wonder how long it will be before Apple puts out an official patch to fix it.

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