Personal notes that maybe can be beneficial to others. Use them as they are and please think before you execute any commands you may find here.
ARD
The other day I found my self locked out of ARD (Apple Remote Desktop), while lucky I had a SSH service running on my box, so I SSH’ed in to my machine and executed the following:
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -configure -allowAccessFor -allUsers -configure -restart -agent -privs -all
http://ss64.com/osx/kickstart.html
SMB
New statshares Option in the smbutil command For OS X 10.9 Mavericks which also works with Yosemite.
In OS X 10.9 Mavericks, a new option for smbutil appears: statshares. The statshares option has an -m option to look at a mount path for showing the path to the mount (e.g. if the mount is called krypted this should be something like /Volumes/krypted):
smbutil statshares -m /Volumes/krypted
When run, you see a list of all the attributes OS X tracks for that mount path, including the name of the server, the user ID (octal), how SMB negotiated an authentication, what version of SMB is running (e.g. SMB_1), the type of share and whether signing, extended security, Unix and large files are supported.
Additionally, if you’d like to see the attributes for all shares, use the -a option after statshares:
smbutil statshares -a
Overall, this is a nice health check type of verb to the smbutil command that can be added to any monitoring or troubleshooting workflow.
hdiutil
I sometimes find my self wanting to convert a sparsebundle or sparseimage to a dmg or vice versa. This can be done using hdiutil
hdiutil convert -format <format> -o <output-file> <input-file>
Format can be the following:
- Image Formats:
UDRO – read-only
UDCO – compressed (ADC)
UDZO – compressed
UDBZ – compressed (bzip2)
ULFO – compressed (lzfse)
UFBI – entire device
IPOD – iPod image
UDxx – UDIF stub
UDSB – sparsebundle
UDSP – sparse
UDRW – read/write
UDTO – DVD/CD master
DC42 – Disk Copy 4.2
RdWr – NDIF read/write
Rdxx – NDIF read-only
ROCo – NDIF compressed
Rken – NDIF compressed (KenCode)
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