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Comment on Mac OS X: Mounting FAT32 external hard drive via Terminal command line by metanomi

metanomi — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:08:37 +0000

you can try “sudo umount -f /Volumes/EXT_HD/” to force unmount when you get resource busy errors in os x

Comment on Leopard Broke SMB Tunnel Mounting via Finder by Konstantin Läufer

Konstantin Läufer — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:04:50 +0000

Great post and comment! Thanks a lot. I have finally restored transparent remote access to my files.

One more addition: you can avoid having to run ssh as root by using a local port above 139. For example, I use 1139. The corresponding server address to enter after Command-K in the finder is

cifs://user@127.0.0.2:1139/share

Comment on Getting tcl via macports to compile on Leopard by Simon

Simon — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:26:14 +0000

Great! This was the solution I searched for. Why hasn’t anyone fixed this yet?

Anyway thanks for help

Comment on Leopard Broke SMB Tunnel Mounting via Finder by Rémi Prévost

Rémi Prévost — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:40:53 +0000

Thank you so much for this post! It’s a shame that Apple removed this feature from Leopard (but still allows it via command line).

Now I can mount SMB shares from work at home

Comment on Mac OS X: Mounting FAT32 external hard drive via Terminal command line by finally!

finally! — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:11:44 +0000

Yeah, the unmounting is a pain, but at least I can mount this puppy. What a pain. I chose FAT32 expressly because it is supported by osx, winblows and linux. I’m thinking about reformatting, but the thought of re-transferring – by usb – 200+gb of data is discouraging.

Anyway, thanks for at least helping me get it mounted.

Comment on libtiff error in Matlab when attempting to use ImageMagick by Kirk Ireson

Kirk Ireson — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:16:26 +0000

Andy, I want to mention that there's always more than one way to do something, and it may be easier for you to use the convert command from the ImageMagick toolbox, by calling it with a system call in Matlab.

Comment on libtiff error in Matlab when attempting to use ImageMagick by Kirk Ireson

Kirk Ireson — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:05:28 +0000

Andy, The setenv command in Matlab is very much available on the Windows platform. I don't understand that if it's just a newer version of libtiff you're trying to use, that you don't use that library compiled for Windows(!) My guess is you will probably not be able to use libraries from a different OS. If you're really trying to do this, it seems such a specific thing you're trying to do that, again, I would recommend you contact Mathworks Tech Support if you can't find help anywhere else on-line.

Comment on libtiff error in Matlab when attempting to use ImageMagick by Andy

Andy — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:54:39 +0000

Hi admin, plz send me an email. again you did not answer if mixing libraryies of operating systms woud cause problem or not AND you use setenv which is NOT on windows which is my matlab platform. Am I missing sth or you are not reading properly ?

Comment on libtiff error in Matlab when attempting to use ImageMagick by Kirk Ireson

Kirk Ireson — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:06:47 +0000

Andy, The command I provided above should work to put the path of the library your trying to use before Matlab's libraries path (of course, your path won't be /opt/local/lib/). You should also look into the loadlibrary command. As of version 7.9 (aka R2009b), there is a new Tiff Class, which acts as a gateway to the LibTIFF libarary. I have that version, and just ran it and got this:

Version 3.7.1 came out in... *gulps* 2004!! I tried to load a newer version (I'm on a Mac, so am using the latest from MacPorts) using the loadlibrary command, but ran into 64-bit problems. Hope this info helps you somewhat. If you get really stuck, I'd contact Mathworks support.

Comment on libtiff error in Matlab when attempting to use ImageMagick by Andy

Andy — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:09:41 +0000

I want to load current libtiff in matlab 2009a running on windows.

Does it have to be windows compiled libtiff or can I also use linux compiled libtiff, ie DLL or .so file ? Can someone PROFICIENT with this procedure test a version and post instructions that actually work as well as some debugging information ? If libtiff has dependencies, how to debug them or discover them from error messages ?

Thanks to the star who can help

Andy