We've had a little thread drift. Rather than dealing with the issues involved in networking the new MacBook Pro, I've moved on to the problems of cleaning up the damage the Mac did when I joined it to the domain. There's a new server on order. The damaged domain controlled, … [Read more...]

I had noticed a few minor network problems that started after I first attached the Mac to the Windows Domain: two instances of duplicate IP addresses, which I traced to the DHCP server on tomkins running when it should have been off, a few more “page not found” messages than … [Read more...]

I decided to see if I could troubleshoot my problems with my new MacBook Pro and my Windows Domain. To review the bidding, it thinks it is logged on to (bound to) the Domain, as indicated by the green dot. On the server, Active Directory has the computer listed. But when I try to … [Read more...]

When I first got the MacBook Pro, I had a problem. It couldn’t join the Windows Domain. Well, it sort of joined the Windows Domain. It gave me a green bullet, which is I guess the closest a Mac can come to the cheery “Welcome to Kasson.com” that you get when you join a PC to a … [Read more...]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Oh, wait, I already used that conceit. Anyway, having recently spent a lot of time with the Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch and the MacBook Pro Retina 15, it’s natural for me to compare the two. I realize that they are quite different … [Read more...]