Network Archives - LarryLai

Make Phone Calls on Mac

Post author:larry
Post published:Jul 13, 2020
Post category:IT / Network
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Issue: When trying to use FaceTime on iMac to make phone calls through iPhone, there is an issue to connect the iPhone with the Mac. Even though these 2 devices…

Cannot Change Ownership on NFS Files

Post author:larry
Post published:Mar 14, 2017
Post category:Diary / IT / Network / OSX
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Issue: After moving mounted volumes from Qnap NAS to iMac as host with CentOS as client, the directory and file ownership cannot be changed to Apache at the client side. No matter…

Fix WiFi Range Extender Performance Issue

Post author:larry
Post published:Dec 31, 2016
Post category:IT / Network

Issue: Netgear EX6120 Range Extender connection to router initially with acceptable signal strength, then suddenly it dropped to low level around 6Mbps. Solution: Set channel of the WiFi router from…

Aztech Homeplug Mixed Models

Post author:larry
Post published:Jan 20, 2016
Post category:IT / Network

Issue: One unit of the Homeplug pair from Aztech broke suddenly, no led, no response even pressing reset button. Buy a new one is the only option. But buying just one…

Mailbox Migration using Thunderbird

Post author:larry
Post published:Jan 1, 2016
Post category:IT / Network

Issue: Mail user, actually my wife sending out emails through my zPanel hosting platform confuses recipients with the old domain name as a year ago, the quick and dirty way…

Demystify iCloud Sync

Post author:larry
Post published:Dec 13, 2015
Post category:Cloud / IT / Network / OS / OSX / System

Issue: Uploaded keynote file to iCloud through safari, after a day the iPad still could not see it when clicking the "+" sign at top left corner of Keynote in…

Gmail Authentication Issue

Post author:larry
Post published:Aug 12, 2015
Post category:IT / Network

Issue: Gmail Account cannot be accessed from KMail. Solution: Login to Google account from Chrome Visit Google's supporting page for less secure apps Select: Turn on Access for less secure…

ProFTP problem with FileZilla client

Post author:larry
Post published:Feb 3, 2015
Post category:IT / Network

Issue: After updating Filezilla client, uploading files and folders to ProFTP server will stop after a while, say after 100MB uploaded but still there are over GB files on the…

Secret of Mounting USB Storage on Cisco Linksys Router

Post author:larry
Post published:May 6, 2014
Post category:Hardware / IT / Network

Issue: Using either Dolphin File Manager or ftp, copying a directory of around 70GB to an USB storage formatted in NTFS stopped mid-way without notification at less than 10GB copied.…

zPanel Webmail Password Change

Post author:larry
Post published:Apr 17, 2014
Post category:Entrepreneur / IT / Network / Tech

Issue: zPanel is using RoundCube as the webmail frontend. It's clean and user-friendly. However, if it is going to be used by ordinary mailbox users without zPanel admin access, users…