Welcome
This site aims to help you get started with Gala. We assume you are a MacAdmin; that is: a professional Mac Administrator.
So what is Gala, exactly?
Gala is a simple tool to help your Macs:
- Use your Kerberos Single Sign-On (SSO) infrastructure;
- Present friendly Active Directory (AD) password expirations notifications;
- Automatically reconnect to your SMB shares.
It is made for MacAdmins, by MacAdmins, and available for free.
Helpful Hints
Throughout this guide there are a number of small-but-handy pieces of information that can make using Gala easier, more interesting, and less hazardous. Here’s what to look out for.
ProTips™ help you get more from Gala
These are tips and tricks that will help you be a Gala wizard!
Notes are handy pieces of information
These are for the extra tidbits sometimes necessary to understand Gala.
Warnings help you not blow things up
Be aware of these messages if you wish to avoid certain death.
You'll see this by a feature that hasn't been released
Some pieces of this website are for future versions of Gala that are not yet released.
If you come across anything along the way that we haven’t covered, or if you know of a tip you think others would find handy, please file an issue and we’ll see about including it in this guide.