Autor: Olaf Jacobi

Today I set up my system with Mac OS High Sierra and again encountered issues while using my Kyocera printer to scan to a folder on my Mac.

The initial steps were to enable file sharing via SMB (without encryption!) and then set up the Kyocera as discussed in several blogs.

Finally when it was working, I noticed that it would save everything under the username I have chosen, but all other users were not able to open the scanned files. So, that was the typical user – group – rights issue in a SMB connection. What solved my issue was posted on a website and reads:

Firstly enable ACL permissions for SMB shares with the following command.

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server AclsEnabled -bool YES

Then set up inheritance permissions on the parent holder with the following command. This should recursively go through your share and apply the relevant permissions.

sudo chmod -R +a "group:REPLACE_WITH_YOURGROUP_NAME:allow readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,list,search,add_file,add_subdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directory_inherit" REPLACE_WITH_PATH_TO_PARENT_SHARED_FOLDER

This worked perfectly for me! Now I am happy to use the scanning to folder function safely on my Kyocera.

I had shared this family calendar and forgotten about it … until I used it again to enter several appointments. Unfortunately, one family member thought that was a mistake and they had to be deleted. Which let me scratch my head, how I could restore those calendar entries either on Mac OS or in iOS.

First, I remembered that the calendar affected was an iCloud calendar. Second, Google delivered the following KB article upon searching:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205018

And yes! This worked flawlessly. I was able to fetch a backup from just after midnight (12:35 AM, at first got afraid that no backup was available, until I checked that 12:35 AM is right after midnight, here in Germany we would say 0:35 hrs … ) and restore the calendar content. That worked and I had all my appointments back. Easy, wasn’t it?

PS: If your lost entries were not from an iCloud calendar, then you might try this solution:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3851319

So I am still running Mac OS El Capitan Server Edition on my Mac Mini. Recently, the Spam that comes through, has increased again and I wondered if there is any mechanism to implement AntiSpam in Mac OS X.

The Apple Knowledge Base only gives this article:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22351?locale=en_US
which is not exactly what I wanted.

Looking further, I came across these links, which proved helpful at the end:

spamtrainer

According to that site the software will do this:

• spamtrainer assists Mac OS X Server mail services administrators in updating and maintaining their SpamAssassin bayes database.
• spamtrainer will read the designated HAM and SPAM mailboxes, update the SpamAssassin databases and delete mail that has been learned from.

After downloading the spamtrainer installation script and installing it I did the following:

Check the proper setup of junkmail / nojunkmail

sudo serveradmin settings mail:imap | grep junk

Result:

 mail:imap:junk_mail_userid = "junkmail"
 mail:imap:not_junk_mail_userid = "notjunkmail"

When running spamtrainer now right away, it complains:

Either there is no mailbox called No GUID found for user: junkmail in the mailpartition or it has never been fed with mail.

Either there is no mailbox called No GUID found for user: notjunkmail in the mailpartition or it has never been fed with mail.

So I go an create those users. Starting the Server.app plus adding the needed network accounts „junkmail“ and „notjunkmail“. Further I edit access so that these accounts only have access to the Mail service. Now I add these accounts to Mail so that I have access to them.

Now, finally, when I run

/usr/local/sbin/spamtrainer

it does what it should.

Using the install option I can also have it run as plist item.

>> /usr/local/sbin/spamtrainer -i

Checking if there is a startup item for 'learn_junk_mail' or 'spamtrainer'

There IS a plist for sa_learn.pl

... and it is ENABLED

If you want to use 'spamtrainer' it is RECOMMENDED that this be disabled

Would you like me to disable it for you (yes/no)

yes

'learn_junk_mail and/or sa_learn.pl' item has been disabled'

You can ignore 'No such process' error messages

There IS NO plist for spamtrainer

if you want to use 'spamtrainer' it is recommended that this be added

Would you like me to enable it for you (yes/no)

yes

What time would you like spamtrainer to run (24-hour format)?

Please enter the hour (1)

05

Please enter the minutes (0)

00

Would you like SPAM/HAM messages to be deleted after the learn process? (n)

y 

Would you like to log bayes stats into /var/log/spamtrainer.log? (n)

y

If you would you like to have spamtrainer mail you a report after it runs, then please enter an e-mail address. Enter for no (n)

myemail@myemaildomain.domain

Enter name of mail store with SPAM/HAM mailboxes? Enter for default (default)

Enter name of mailbox with SPAM? Enter for default (junkmail)

Enter name of mailbox with HAM? Enter for default (notjunkmail)

A plist with the following parameters for 'spamtrainer' has been prepared

/usr/local/sbin/spamtrainer -m myemail@myemaildomain.domain -d -l

It will run each day at 05:00:00

Would you like to add and enable it? (yes/no)

yes

The following launchd plist item for 'spamtrainer' has been enabled'

/usr/local/sbin/spamtrainer -m myemail@myemaildomain.domain -d -l

It will run each day at 05:00:00

That is all for installation, now let me see if it does what it should!

Parallels comes with this awful menu entry:

„Install Antivirus for Mac“.

Ok, if you would like to go from there – no problem. But if you would like to install this license on another Mac it gets a bit difficult to acquire the installation kit.

I thought I would download it from the regular Kaspersky website, but unfortunately – the Parallels license key doesn’t work with the regular download package.

I contacted Parallels about it and got a confirmation for this behaviour:

The parallels code can only be used with a Parallels versions of Kaspersky, it cannot be registered with a trial version. The Parallels version of Kaspersky can only be downloaded from Parallels‘ servers. There is no external download source.

This is also reflected in the Parallels KB article (123871).

Of course, there must be a way. So I fired up Wireshark to see, where the installation kit gets downloaded from! And voilá – here we go with the direct download link:

http://download.parallels.com//desktop/v11/is/binaries/kismac16_0_0_245mlg_de_en_es_fr_it_ja_pl_ru_zh-Hans_zh-Hant.dmg

After Upgrading to El Capitan, my Kyocera MFC didn’t want to save scans via SMB connection anymore. This brought me to google wildly after any solution, and I came across these documents, which kept enlightening me:

• Scan to Folder / SMB / Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks (by Kyocera)
• How to connect with File Sharing on your Mac (by Apple)

As I had set up a user named „scanuser“ in the Mac OS Server App, I kept looking there, why it wouldn’t work. I changed permission rights and even switched the system back to SMB v1, by entering the following in a console window:

echo "[default]" >> ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf; echo "smb_neg=smb1_only" >> ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf

If you need to change it back, you just enter:

rm ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf

But, to no avail!

So I looked into System Preferences and Users again and thought, I might create a local user called „scanuser“. This I did, and suddenly my Kyocera printer & scanner was willing to talk to the SMB share on my Mac OS Server again.