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Feature request Maybe

Hello there, I was wondering if anyone knew of a good way to grab down informationthat would normally be found in the System Profiler. For example, with the growing list of possible bad hard drives fromSeagate and other companies I'd love to be able ...  View more

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privilages for accounts in the JSS

Hi Guys, I need to create a JSS user who can image computers but i dont want to give it any more privileges than needed, can you tell me what privileges I need to grant a user so they can image a mac via casper imaging from the client but dont need t...  View more

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imaging problem and recon

Hi All, I am trying to image a new imac and after imaging it doesnt get added to the JSS. The imaging log list the computer as Computer Deleted (ID: -1) When i run jamf recon on the local box it come back with bad username and password The image hasn...  View more

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Spam: Upgrading Casper

Personal recommendation from what we saw in our environment. Do notjust run the updates. Back up your JSS and wipe the server clean, Iprefer to zero the drives but that might just be me. Do a cleaninstall of the server, do an install of the Casper Su...  View more

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Upgrading Casper

I like to upgrade Casper from 5.13 to 6.01. Our JSS server is running on10.4.11 which I would also like to upgrade at some point. Wanted to see ifany of you on the list has any recommendations on which to upgrade firstbased on your experiences? My ma...  View more

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one of those days, can't remember syntax

of dscl to remove someone from a group I thought it was sudo dscl . delete /Groups/admin GroupMembership That returns an error Thomas LarkinTIS DepartmentKCKPS USD500tlarki at kckps.orgblackberry: 913-449-7589office: 913-627-0351  View more

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GSX integration behind a proxy

Sooo is anyone using the GSX integration behind a proxy? When we tryto mass edit or anything within the GSX portion of the JSS we get this org.apache.jasper.JasperException: An exception occurred processing JSPpage /WEB-INF/jsp/massEditWarranty.jsp a...  View more

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Can't drag items on desktop.

Hey all- I just imaged a machine with our standard build. There's nothing unusual about it. After the image I installed CS4 Design suite and Quark 8 from DVD. Now, for some reason, whenever the user logs in the items on her desktop are un-draggable. ...  View more

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Quickadd Failing

Hi all, I am seeing an issue with my quickadd.pkg failing to run a "post- flight script" on some machines. It is not adding the machine to my JSS and I have repaired permissions and run it again with the same result. Any ideas? Ron PrueTechnical Serv...  View more

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disable ad hoc networking

I am looking at just disabling the ability to create an ad hoc network. A simple look at the given command line tools says I can't do this. So, now I am venturing into the real of editing a plist to disable that function. Any pointers or suggestions?...  View more

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Remotely configure Directory Utility

Is there any way out there to remotely configure LDAPv3 plugin for server search paths?So far, the only way that may be possible that I can see is to push out .plist files with directory info to /Library/Preferences/DirectoryService Thanks in advance...  View more

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Search and destroy apps

Hi all,I have another script to share. In more than one environment I've workedwith, users were not allowed to store or run apps in/from their homefolders. Policies were made clear that any apps in one's home folder wereconsidered a policy violation,...  View more

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Dummy Receipts and Custom Triggering a Policy

Gents,I'm taking this back on list because there may be others in the communitythat would benefit from this discussion. To Recap, there are two questions: how to use custom triggers and how tocreate dummy receipts. To use a custom trigger there are t...  View more

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Computer group from AD

Hey Guys- Has anyone created a smart group that would take members based on if the computer is a member of an AD group. Essentially what I'm trying to do is scope a policy to a group of computers in AD, like you can with the User scope, but it doesn'...  View more

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Wake On LAN

Is there any mechanism that folks know of to do wake on lan in Casper? I can't seem to find anything in the documentation. Or, do folks leave this up to ARD? Thanks! j--Jared NicholsISD Infrastructure and Operations - Desktop EngineeringMIT Lincoln L...  View more

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Self Service Feature REQ

So, It has come to my attention that certain users may need certain software and licenses are limited. Instead of me doing bunches of manual data entries and finding out all the individual laptops (out of 6,000) and creating a smart group out of them...  View more

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NAV 11 preventing ssh connections in Leopard

Greetings. I have a problem where Norton AntiVirus 11 is preventing sshconnections on my Leopard macs (including my own) which in turn ispreventing me from using Casper to deploy software updates. I've made sureRemote Login is on and that the Firewal...  View more

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JSS search box

So, I like the new v6 JSS web but what does the search box in the top right actually do? I type in "word" and it gives me the File Servers link and JSS Accounts. I was hoping it would be a shortcut to Inventory search so that I can type an Asset Tag ...  View more

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CS4

I am in the process of upgrading several lab machines to CS4. I created the package and distributed and get a 150:30 error. I sent an email to Jamf and they sent back some fixes for it. The Licensing Service Update worked but is an applescript. The p...  View more

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Deploy CS4

Has anyone used Casper for deploying CS4? Does it basically work the same as CS3?--Tommy Birchett | The Martin Agency| 804-698-8592 | 804-389-3071  View more

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Upgrading from Tiger to Leopard

I was wondering how you all have done migrations from Tiger to Leopard. We have an Active Directory setup where the users home directories are localto the machine (our faculty often have 10GB+ of data, and some havelaptops). We were contemplating doi...  View more

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Delete com.adobe.mediabrowser.plist

Hi, I want to delete the com.adobe.mediabrowser.plist (~/Library/Preferences/) for the user that's currently logging in. I tried to do this with a policy:Search for file by path: ~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.mediabrowser.plist and Delete if found....  View more

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flat packages

Anyone else out there using 10.5-only, flat packages, and finding issues for package installation, via self-service or policy via Casper? Thanks,j  View more

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InstaDMG

Anyone have issues incorporating QuickAdd packages into something like InstaDMG or System Image Utility?For some reason it is the only package that does not install properly...and no detailed logs can tell why. Thanks,jeremy  View more

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Netbooting Across Subnets

I have a new lab that has been setup w/ Intel iMacs straight out of the box and I'm wanting to use an existing image that we run on our laptops minus XP. In testing I know this works fine. The issue I'mhaving is these machines are on a .12 subnet and...  View more

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folder deletion and shutdown

I want to pass a couple questions to the group to see if others have had success with either of these items. First has to do with folder deletion. We currently deploy an image through NetBoot/NetRestore that has all of our common applications. This w...  View more

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Major problems creating Base image.

For the first time ever, I'm having major problems building my base image. The New Unibody MacBook5,1 and MacBookPro5,1 are giving me nothing but trouble. Before these, my imaing process would consist of building my BaseOS image on the latest model M...  View more

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Latest Version of Casper

I was just wondering what the latest version of the Casper Suite was. We are currently running version 6.0. It seems to be hard to find out what the latest version is on the internet. Justin  View more

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