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Hey there jamfnation, I've always used MCX to suppress the creation of .DS_Store files on network shares in the past, and I've converted the MCX I used to use to a custom setting in a configuration profile for 10.8, but it does not appear to work- clients ARE creating those files on network shares.
running the defaults command in terminal



defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true


does work, so I'm wondering if I've messed up the translation to a profile in some way.
The profile setting i'm using is:



Preference Domain: com.apple.desktopservices

Key: DSDontWriteNetworkStores

Type: String

Value: true


This is embedded in a device (NOT a user) profile.
Anyone have a suggestion for managing this setting on 10.8?

instead of string, try boolean

I'll give it a try. i'm using a spindle-disk based mini for testing, so it'll be about an hour before I have results.

no go on the boolean.
I may just go with a defaults write script at first boot.

yea it's infuriating.. so config profiles work, some mcx.. some require scripting..

Agree Ben. I really was hoping Config Profiles would be an end all be all since it seems so versatile on paper. Of course everything works on Powerpoint (or Keynote)!!!

I'm going to use the defaults command to handle this for now, i think. I've decided to use Rich Trouton's script as an catchall for anything I used to do in MCX that can't be done with config profiles for now.



#!/bin/sh



# lets do things that config profiles can't!

if [ `sw_vers -productVersion | awk -F. '{ print $2 }'` -ge 7 ]

then

    mv /System/Library/CoreServices/Setup Assistant.app/Contents/SharedSupport/MiniLauncher /System/Library/CoreServices/Setup Assistant.app/Contents/SharedSupport/MiniLauncher.backup

    for USER_TEMPLATE in "/System/Library/User Template"/*

    do

        defaults write "${USER_TEMPLATE}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant DidSeeCloudSetup -bool TRUE

        defaults write "${USER_TEMPLATE}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

    done



    for USER_HOME in /Users/*

    do

        USER_UID=`basename "${USER_HOME}"`

        if [ ! "${USER_UID}" = "Shared" ]

        then

            if [ ! -d "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences ]

            then

                mkdir -p "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences

                chown "${USER_UID}" "${USER_HOME}"/Library

                chown "${USER_UID}" "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences

            fi

            if [ -d "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences ]

            then

                defaults write "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant DidSeeCloudSetup -bool TRUE

                defaults write "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

                chown "${USER_UID}" "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant.plist

                chown "${USER_UID}" "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktopservices.plist

            fi

        fi

    done

fi
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