Archive for the ‘Mac OS X’ Category
Optical Sharing
I recently needed to temporarily enable optical disk sharing on a couple of machines at a number of different sites (don’t ask why, long story). There were enough to where I wanted to do it sending a script. But where is this stuff stored? Snapshot says: in com.apple.NetworkBrowser.plist. Which keys? diff says: EnableODiskBrowsing and ODSSupported, [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mass Deployment
Connect to Server Name
When connecting to a server from Mac OS X, what name will your system use when you bring up the Connect to Server dialog box? By default it shows the full name of the user authenticated to a client computer. But, not everyone wants this behavior. Therefore, you can change it by altering the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.NetworkAuthorization.plist [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mass Deployment
Headless VMware Fusion
You can run VMware Fusion 2 in what is commonly referred to as headless mode. This option is not yet available in Fusion 3, but is handy when you do not want to authenticate at the loginwindow of Mac OS X in order to run virtual machines using the vmware-vmx process. To enable headless mode, [...]
In: Mac OS X, VMware · Tagged with: bypass loginwindow, fluxcapacitor, headless mode, VMware, vmx
LANDesk Client In Image
LANDesk stores its data files in the /Library/Application Support/LANDesk/data directory. However, there is a uuid file for LANDesk that, if you put the LANDesk client in your image will need to be deleted. The uuid is in the /Library/Preferences/com.landesk.uuid.plist property list. If you rm this file as a postflight imaging task then your client can [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mass Deployment · Tagged with: iMaging, LDANDesk, put landesk client in image, UUID
Managing SyncPlans from the PresSTORE CLI
PresSTORE has a Synchronize module, that can be used to copy data from one location to another. This is done by the use of synchronization plans, or sync plans for short. Each plan is given a name and has a number of attributes associated with it, such as whether it is enabled or disabled. PresSTORE [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac Security, Unix · Tagged with: Command line, mirror, Podcast Producer, Presstore, sync plan, synchronization plan, syncplan, Xsan
LoginHook Bonjour
Want users to be able to use Bonjour at home without having their systems registering with Bonjour when they’re on your network? Many environments have taken to wholesale disabling Bonjour. This can be done by augmenting the LaunchDaemon that invokes Bonjour, com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist that is located at /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. You add a -NoMulticastAdvertisements to the ProgramArguments array. [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mass Deployment · Tagged with: crankd, disable bonjour, enable bonjour, howto, kicker, launchd, load, network status, NoMulticastAdvertisements, unload
Running TFTP on Mac OS X
TFTP, or Trivial File Transfer Protocol is a protocol that can be used for quickly shuttling files about. While similar to FTP, TFTP has no username and password (in most cases) and should not be running when you do not need it. It’s still in use today for a number of appliances such as routers [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server · Tagged with: application, GUI, Mac OS X, tftp, TFTP client, TFTP Server, tftpd, TFTPServer
Import ARD Information Using jamf
It’s pretty common to use keys for ARD for shuttling data back and forth. In an environment where you’re using one tool to image computers and another tool to then perform patch management, the Computer Information fields in ARD are a place where you can keep this information and not run the risk of it [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mass Deployment · Tagged with: create admin account, createAccount, JAMF, pas, populate ARD information, recon
DeployStudio From the Command Line
Recently I did a little article on importing computers into DeployStudio lists. I got an overwhelming number of email requests to go a step further and look at importing computers into DeployStudio from the command line. I’m guessing lots of people want to bolt some middleware onto their mass deployment tools (can’t say I blame [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mass Deployment · Tagged with: add computer, add workflow, byhost, Command line, database, defaults, DeployStudio, iMaging, Mac OS X, scripting
Importing Computers Into DeployStudio
DeployStudio has the ability to import a csv file that is populated with the MAC address and a few specific settings. This allows you to prepopulate the database with the names that you want each machine to have. If you purchase a lot of machines from Apple then you can get a list of MAC [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mass Deployment · Tagged with: Casper, Computer Lists, csv, DeployStudio, DSImporter.csv, en0, import, JAMF, MAC Address, order of fields
