Archive for April, 2006

Cool firefox plugins

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

 

My two new favorite firefox plugins:

  • firebug: Combines so much useful functionality that I used to use multiple plugins for before, plus more that is not avaiable elsewhere. Basically lets you dynamically see sections of your page (css, html src, dom, etc) when you mouse over, regardless of if that section was generated dynamically with javascript!
  • Tamper Data: Lets you see request/response headers/data like the Live HTTP Headers plugin, but also lets you mess with the data before submitting it back to the server.

Accessing Windows shares from OS X

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

I’ve been having a lot of trouble trying to get my OS X laptop talking to windows xp shares (file and printer) at home. It works just fine talking to xp at work and my samba share, but could not authorize to my windows machine. I finally tried using smbclient, and saw an error message that I was able to use to find relevant google hits.

 

> smbclient -U me //myhost/myshare
Password:
session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_TYPE_NOT_GRANTED

 

I found the solution on this guys blog - to summarize:

 

Open Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> “Local Security Settings”

 

Security Options - Network Access: Sharing and Security for local accounts
was set to ‘Guest Only - local users authenticate as guest’. It needed to be changed to ‘Classic - local users authenticate as themselves.’

 

User Rights Assignment - Access this computer from the network
Needs to include the user you’re trying to login as.