Apple Passbook you get the “Cannot connect to Itunes Store”

When I attempt to access App Store through Passbook I get the “Cannot connect to Itunes Store” error. I went to the forums and tried all the steps. Change date ahead, turn iMessage off and on, reboot.

Workaround:

  1. Exit passbook
  2. Go to Settings and change your date from automatic, and set it to one year in advance (2013).
  3. Launch passbook
  4. Error typically goes away (not always)
  5. Exit passbook
  6. Set time back to auto…
  7. Should be solved.
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Procedure to mount remote windows partition (NAS share)

1) Make sure you have following information: ==> Windows username and password to access share name ==> Sharename (such as //server/share) or IP address ==> root level access on Linux

2) Login to Linux as a root user (or use su command)

3) Create the required mount point: # mkdir -p /mnt/ntserver 4) Use the mount command as follows: # mount -t cifs //ntserver/download -o username=vivek,password=myPassword /mnt/ntserver

Use following command if you are using Old version such as RHEL <=4 or Debian <= 3: # mount -t smbfs -o username=vivek,password=D1W4x9sw //ntserver/download  /mnt/ntserver

5) Access Windows 2003/2000/NT share using cd and ls command: # cd /mnt/ntserver; ls -l Where,

  • -t smbfs : File system type to be mount (outdated, use cifs)
  • -t cifs : File system type to be mount
  • -o : are options passed to mount command, in this example I had passed two options. First argument is password (vivek) and second argument is password to connect remote windows box
  • //ntserver/download : Windows 2000/NT share name
  • /mnt/ntserver Linux mount point (to access share after mounting)
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Adding ODBC drivers in Windows Server 2008 – 64bit

Going to the Administrative Tools and open the ODBC Data Source Administrator window and add a new DSN for the .mdb and lo and behold I see the following nearly empty window:

This of course is no good! Where are all the other data drivers? Apparently all the regular ones we are used to seeing in 32bit Windows no longer exist as 64bit drivers.  The trick is to execute %windir%\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe.

 

 

 

This will give you the ability to add the rest of the 32bit Data Sources such as Microsoft Access (.mdb).

 

 

 

 

 

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