Cain Manor

My Doctors name was Jon Connor.

When I left, I thanked him for saving humanity.

I love these various shortcuts.  Most are somewhat obscure, or at least were to me.

To open Quick Look in full screen mode

 Command+Option+Y

To open a new Finder window (with no other finder windows open.) Hold down Command and Command + Tab until you get to the Finder. Once the Finder is highlighted, and with Command still held down, hold the Option key and then release the Command key. It’s easier than I make it sound. This will also work in other Apple apps, but if there are existing windows, it will take you to them rather than create new ones.

press Command - Tab to Finder - press Option - release Command

In Finder, to go to a specific path (Tab Completion works here too.)

Command+Shift+G

In Safari, Mail, and probably most Apple apps, you can lookup a word in the built in Dictionary.

Command+Control+d

In Terminal, if you hold the Option key, your cursor will turn into a small cross. You can then place your cursor anywhere in the command line. This is a great feature.

This isn’t a keyboard shortcut, but it is quite handy. To open a man page in preview.

man -t bash | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app

Go forth and prosper with your newfound knowledge..

This document is intended to step you through some of the basics of troubleshooting samba connectivity with your domain controller, using wbinfo.   This is not intended to show you how to configure Samba to talk to your domain controller.  Others have done a much better job that I can.

winbind must be running in order for wbinfo to work, and you need to be connected to your domain.

wbinfo -p
Ping to winbindd succeeded on fd 4

A simple ping test to see if your DC is alive

wbinfo -t
checking the trust secret via RPC calls succeeded

Verify that the workstation trust account created when the Samba server is added to the Windows NT domain is working. This is a good first step to make sure you can talk to your DC
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