Mac OS X upgrade leads to problems viewing Windows and Linux SAMBA shares, here’s the fix

By Robin Rowe

Trouble with Windows shares on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 2/14/2011 – Upgrading to Snow Leopard results in problems accessing Windows shares, giving the dreaded “Connection Failed” message.  A lot of users have encountered this problem and suggested many workarounds. Here’s what worked for us.

1. In Finder, if you don’t see the Windows or Linux SAMBA machine you want to access from your Mac under SHARED, you may need to look at solving that problem first. You may have a network or SAMBA configuration issue or not have showing SHARED in the Finder sidebar turned on in your Mac configuration.
2. Click on your Windows share, if it says “Connection Failed”, you have the problem this article addresses.
3. In Network settings on your Mac under Advanced, set your WINS workgroup to “Workgroup” and set IPV6 to “OFF”. You might need to reboot.
4. Try your Windows share again. If it still doesn’t work, try {Go}{Connect to Server} and enter your Windows server name manually. If your Windows box is named Mercury, that would be: “smb://mercury”. Enter any login credentials your Windows share requires.

That should do it. Your share should appear under SHARED in the Finder sidebar. Works with Windows and Linux SAMBA shares.

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WordCamp WordPress conference set for August 12-14, 2011

By Robin Rowe

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 2/14/2011 – WordPress is popular open source content publishing software used by many publishers including Gosh!TV. The official WordPress annual conference, called WordCamp San Francisco, will be held August 12-14, 2011, at the Mission Bay Conference Center. This year the conference is expanding from one day to be three days. Friday will be programming aimed at publishers, Saturday is for bloggers and Sunday is for developers. The final schedule may include events such as a contributor summit, design group meetup, and WordCamp organizers brunch. Calls for speakers, sponsors, and volunteers for WordCamp San Francisco will be posted at the WordCamp website.

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Free open source anti-spam technology reflects spam back onto spammers with a message to try again later

By Robin Rowe

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 9/23/2010 - Greyfix is a lightweight open source Postfix plug-in that relies on the Berkeley Database to bounce about 90% of SPAM without a significant server load and no false-positives. At the enterprise level it causes mail from first-time senders to be postponed. The default is hours although 10 minutes is sufficient. Most spammers will move on, not bother to resend postponed mail. Changes to the settings are made in the C code. There’s no settings file. The software is small, reliable and uses (more…)

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Installing Drupal on Centos using Postgres instead of MySQL gets a bit tricky

By Robin Rowe

Drupal powers the Obama White House site whitehouse.gov

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 12/22/2009 – Drupal is a popular content publishing program that the White House uses since Obama took office. The standard Drupal installation uses MySQL. Many prefer Postgres because they find it more robust and faster with multiple connections. Drupal supports Postgres (and Sqlite, too). Let’s install on CentOS. (more…)

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Mac OS X is, if you know the secrets, a great platform for working with popular open source software that was intended for Linux

By Robin Rowe

Using RText because Scite isn't available yet for the Mac

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 12/10/2009 – In this quick tutorial (or “gouge”) we’ll look at how to set up Mac OS X to build free open source Linux software such as CinePaint. Mac OS X offers a free graphical compiler app called Xcode. We’ll download that but not use it as a graphical programming environment. Instead, we’ll do everything the Linux way so that we maintain total compatibility of code across Linux and Mac OS X.

Installing GNU Make in a terminal in Mac OS X

Snow Leopard 10.6, the current version of Mac OS X, only runs on Intel-based Macs. We’re developing on a G5 PowerPC desktop running Tiger 10.4.  It makes little difference what version of Mac OS X we’re using because we’re avoiding relying on anything specific to the Mac when building POSIX code. We’ll build code from a terminal window using the usual Linux commands.

We’ll make the same source code to build on Mac OS X or Linux. Each of these UNIX-based systems are highly compatible at the platform level known as POSIX. The same C/C++ POSIX-compatible code can (more…)

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