+5Hi All,
I have an AD bind script the automatically binds the Macs to AD. To stop users trying to login whilst this is happening I unload the loginwindow and once bound reload the loginwindow with Launchctl.
This has worked fine from 10.6 to 10.8 but 10.8.2 does not seam to like it. When the loginwindo unloads the mac unloads the loginwindow process and then just beach balls. Forcing a reboot fixes the problem but thats not really ideal.
Anyone else have the same problem ?
Dan
+18I am unloading the login window during my firstboot and it does not beach ball.
How are you doing it? launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
and then launchctl load?
+18An alternative I used a while ago was "killall -stop", followed by "killall -cont" but I'm not sure if they still work in 10.8. I would use Big Honking Text to put a message up covering the screen, something like "Joining Domain, Please Wait...". Here's a link to it if you don't have it:
https://teams.ccsd21.org/groups/techoffice/wiki/a03fb/attachments/e2b84/BigHonkingText.zip
Use BigHonkingText --help for usage syntax.
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