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Jamf Pro 11.5.0 Beta is Now Available

Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J...  View more

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Changes to com.apple.dock.plist

Hello, I am trying to push network mounts to the dock via com.apple.dock.plist.(There is a Global version and a User version. I need to edit the user version located at /Library/Managed Preferences/Username/com.apple.dock.plist. Here is where apple h...  View more

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JSS and file share on same VM?

We are setting up new virtualized JAMF infrastructure this summer. Both JSS and file share are going to be Ubuntu VM's in the same hosting environment. Is there any reason we can't run JSS and Samba fileserver on the same VM? It would make administra...  View more

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Mount different Home Directorys for our Students

Hey guys, i´ve got a problem with our mac labs. We have three smb home directorys four our students.stud1-uni...stud2-uni...stud3-uni... The student accounts are seven digit, like s324218. But not all student accounts have there home directory on eve...  View more

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Intermittant access denied with SMB mounts

Hi, For some time I have been seeing the access denied red circle with white dash in the middle for a small but frustrated group of users on our campus. The access will be denied and then come back again with no intervention. I have even seen it on m...  View more

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Mac OS 10.12 connecting to older Windows Servers

I know this is off topic as it is not related to JAMF software but is related to Mac OS. Has anyone else experienced problems with connecting to older Windows server file shares via SMB protocol. We have 1 older Windows server 2003 box here and we re...  View more

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Binding Mac to AD - issue

I am using deploystudio to enroll images to mac, where I also within a script bind the mac to AD. It works as it should, and I can logon to any mac with any AD user after enrolling an image But quite often I see mac´s suddenly are not bind to AD anym...  View more

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KeyChains not Working on Network Based Home Drive

The Keychain doesn't store password of Outlook 2016, Apple Remote Desktop when home directory of user is on SMB Share. The Keychain does store credentials of that are saved form a website in Safari. The Keychain is visible on the network share and th...  View more

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/etc/nsmb.conf changes in macOS 10.12 Sierra

Just a heads-up: I just realized the syntax of the /etc/nsmb.conf file has changed in Sierra: The entries of "smb_neg=smb1_only" and "smb_neg=smb2_only" are offically gone. The only thing I see that resembles this entry is "protocol_vers_map" (manpag...  View more

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Not able to get Jamf to mount shared drives

Hi all, I am new to Casper and also to Mac scripting. I just want to mount as simple as possible our shared drives to the users Macs. I got an osascript running which works perfectly on the Mac itself.Have imported it to Casper Admin, created a polic...  View more

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Software Update | Mac Server | SM share

Hello fab nation. We use a Mac Mini as "Software Update Servers" and we are running out of space. :-( We wanted the mac mini to use an SMB share as updates repo but we struggle with the conf.we followed this : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/424...  View more

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Access Based Enumeration on Windows Server Shares

Is there a way to make access based enumeration work for Macs when Windows Servers are configured in this manner? Our network staff is looking to make use of this feature for our environment which consists of both Mac and Windows users and even some ...  View more

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SMB Volumes Not Displaying on Finder Desktop

In my environment I've noticed that SOME SMB volumes (2012R2 Servers) don't display on the Desktop as expected. What's curious is that two shares on the same server will behave differently. One will display and another won't. I've had difficultly in ...  View more

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SMB mount issues

Hi all,Yesterday in Massachusetts we had a Winter storm, so naturally my brain is off by a day; forgive my ignorance if this turns out to be an easy one. I am trying to mount a share via script. It works initially, then I unmount it and attempt to re...  View more

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RSYNC replication schedule

Hello everyone, I currently have two file servers using Samba hosting the mac packages. Server A is the master and B is a replica. I'm using RSYNC to copy, with a cronjob setting a schedule. We don't have too many packages, so the packaging folks is ...  View more

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NAS SMB mount and El Capitan Problems

I have an interesting situation that my team and I have been stuck on for the last couple weeks. We have a department that uses an NAS for all their files. We upgraded a user to El Capitan for testing and the first thing we noticed was all our NAS mo...  View more

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Adobe CS5.5 Premium with El Capitan

Just want to check with everyone if they manage to get Adobe CS5.5 to work with El Capitan. I heard its not compatible with El Capitan.I personally tried to install it but ended up with a pop up that a process (I think its a safariplugin something) n...  View more

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random connection errors to SMB share on windows 2012 r2

HEy jamfnation we are having a major issue with clients not being able to mount the share 4 out of 5 times. I have been working with JAMF support and they thought it may be related to a patch but I removed that patch and I am still having issues. The...  View more

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Filesharing for iOS in Server 5.0.3?

Does anyone know anything about this new feature that was announced with the release of OS X Server.app 5.0.3? iOS 9 users can easily access and store documents on OS X Server. Once a share point is created, it can be shared to iOS devices and made a...  View more

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Losing SMB Shares frequently

Dear Casper Folks, since some weeks i have the problem that our clients losing SMB Shares. One Server Share more often than other. The system.log says: Aug 2 16:27:56 hhlokfda-mac10 KernelEventAgent[78]: tid 00000000 received event(s) VQ_NOTRESP (1)A...  View more

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SMB + Adobe = kernel panics

I've been having an issue on a number of the Macs here at the office. Usually when using an Adobe app and often when saving a document directly on the server, a user's computer will all of a sudden kernel panic and restart. In analyzing the backtrace...  View more

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SMB open sessions

Hello all, We discovered nasty behavior connecting from Mac 10.8 10.9 and 10.10 clients to Windows Server 2008 R2 and up over SMB. Finally filed a bug report with Apple but we got back the completely useless answer: Duplicate of 13724789 (Open). With...  View more

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Sharing performance

Hello,I start in installation of JSS. Before to give me a share (with SMB), the responsable of the SAN ask me to precise the volume of i/o for JSS.I disarmed for this question and I don't find any informations about this.The first need is to manage 1...  View more

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