What we did here because we had the luxury of having a good amount oftime to accomplish our goal was to use an ARD Task Server to run thequickadd package on our client machines. We didn't of course hit allof them machines as we have just shy of 5000 ... View more
It requires the quickadd account since it will authenticate to the JSS over ssh with those credentials to allow for install. Can you not take the quickadd pkg and just drop it in say ARD admin and run it that way? View more
We have a client with roughly 2000 Macs and it's taking longer than planned to get the JAMF client deployed. Is it possible to set up Self Service and give everyone at the firm access to the client installer? I'm hoping the Self Service feature doesn... View more
I've seen this a couple times now, thought the first must've been my mistakefor not checking the box, but after seeing it a couple more times I'mwondering whats going on. View more
Hi- I've got two questions about compiling configurations... Are there any actions that aren't compatible with this? Such as scripts thatlaunch on re-boot, AD binding etc My base OS image is from the 10.6 retail disc 10.6.0. To make distributingnew... View more
Anyone have any tricks to have LDAP auto fill the username, real name, etc. into the computer record? Right now, the only way to do this from what I see is click Edit on each record, then Location, type in the user's username from our LDAP, click Che... View more
I would like any suggestions on how to build a bootable Imaging dvd. Rather than have our computer tech try to netboot across subnets all the time to image client computers, I was wondering if a bootable dvd with casper imaging (preset with the ip of... View more
The following worked in our environment. Making of Adobe Reader 9.3 Intel DMG package1. Composer 7.1 - New Package Normal snapshot2. Installed by opening the Adobe Reader installer3. Opened the Adobe Reader Applicationa. Choose Help > Check for Upda... View more
Hi all, Is anyone else deploying scanner drivers after the initial install? I justhad a user request the drivers/software for the HP ScanJet 8270, and theinstaller closes all open applications and restarts after it's done, so Ican't capture the insta... View more
Hey all, I’m having an issue setting up a new Casper DistPoint running Snow Leopard Server (10.6.2). I’ll setup the server, setup my Share. I can run a manual sync out of Casper Admin just fine. But when I launch the JSS Utility (7.1), and attempt to... View more
Is it just me or does anyone else ever have problems packaging Adobe Reader ? We always find it very hit and miss.It comes in a .pkg file, but it doesn't seem that you can just use that from Casper. We have tested this and itdoesn't seem to work. I w... View more
Hello folks, Some may remember a while ago I was asking about automating thedeployment of 802.1x system profiles using the new CLI tools in 10.6.Well our local Apple SE was kind enough to come out and spend themorning with me here and help figure out... View more
Aside from manually putting a user's name in manually, anyone have any tips on pulling the info from Accounts in System Prefs or maybe dscl and piping it into a JSS record for the machine? View more
There was some talk, last year, about getting a giant image file from Adobe for the CS4 suite. My boss finally bought the licenses for "Design Premium 4.0" and I would like to get this going. Someone mentioned that they got one giant image file, and ... View more
Hi- Has anyone used managed prefs or editing /etc/authorization to limit the ability to unlock the screensaver to the person who’s logged in? The default state is that anyone who’s an admin can unlock it if the currently logged in user is a standard-... View more
Were moving our Casper Distribution points over to Virtual Redhat servers. I get everything to work Great Except Rsyncing. I tried the Shared keys method and password file. I don't know if its a issue with the BSD to linux? anybody else doing this an... View more
Hi, I am trying to package Parallels Desktop 4 to deploy through Casper Policy. As per the JAMF article :- http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=256, Created the *ParallelsSettings* and *Virtual Machine* dmg using composer. Then copiedInstall... View more
Classification: UNCLASSIFIEDCaveats: FOUO Modifying this key: system.login.screensaver class rule comment The owner or any administrator canunlock the screensaver. rule authenticate-session-owner-or-admin To system.login.screensaver class rule com... View more
Our machines have the Guest Account turned off... and I want to turn them all on. Does anyone have the command or a tip for enabling Guest account via command line or policy? Peter Peter GawlockiInfrastructure/Desktop Support, Tier 2 Cell Signaling T... View more
I have created a couple of managed prefs to expand all of the print and savedialog boxes and set them to user level enforced. I rebooted the machinesthat are part of the profile and the save dialog boxes are working as theyshould but the print dialog... View more
Hi all, We're getting the below error in our policy logs on some macs when using the override jss command to get them to periodically update a remote jss. Error entering unix application: com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlDataTruncation: Data truncation: Data too ... View more
Has anyone successfully deployed the PGP Desktop tools via Casper policy? Are there any gotchas to note? Thanks. View more
Hi Everyone, I am again writing about a failed attempt and packaging a Final Cut Studio 3 using the latest composer. I created this from an iMac which is identical to the ones in the lab. I then took a basic install of only the OS with all the update... View more
Does anyone know if it’s possible to run an Automator action as root? I’m creating an action to migrate a local user account to a domain user account and need to make sure the action has privs to copy items. Thanks!---Jared F. NicholsDesktop Engineer... View more
So, we are thinking that since our netboot installer has power settings for the client machine to go to sleep if idle affects the performance of AFP. Anyone else seen this also? We are all running either 10.5 or 10.4 netboot servers for imaging. Do a... View more
So, I figured someone out there on the list knows this... The JSS Setup Utility only allows for a maximum value of 8gigs of RAM set to the JSS for TomCat. Well, I upgraded my server last night to 24gigs of RAM and I want TomCat to use at least 16Gig,... View more
Hello list friends, I'm starting to see some issues with users where laptops are having extended login times and logout times when the laptop is located off campus. Sometimes the delay can be up to 10 or 15 minutes according to my users. I checked th... View more
While I was *dreaming* for a much geekier device I knew Apple wasn't goingto give it to me. I wanted a USB port - both for memory sticks and for useas a mini display like you can get at ThinkGeek- , some file managementcapability, mini-displayport, a... View more
Hey all, Quick q. We've just started to expand our OD & wish to host SUS on this remote server. I was wondering how you guys manage the administration of multiple SUS... Do you enable updates on each individual SUS? Or point them all to another SUS (... View more
Hello, I'll most likely open a support ticket for this as all organizations are probably different. We use Active Directory and I have yet to be able to add a group from AD and grant it access to the JSS. The problem I think is the "Map Member Users ... View more
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