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10.5.4 update hung

Hi, I just tried to roll out the 10.5.4 combo pkg, but the install hung on updating receipts. I rebooted the machine and it did say 10.5.4 was install ok, but I don't trust it. Has anyone else seen this? Best wishes Michael  View more

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help - cant add computers to the jss

Ive recently installed casper and jss to a server I cannot add any computers to the jss, ive tried via quickadd package remote scan and local in recon It says added successfully but when i go to the web interface and search the inventory no computers...  View more

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Casper and Undercover

I've seen a few posts about using Casper in combination withComputrace/LoJack, but does anyone here have any experience with Undercoverby Orbicule? We're looking into using that in our installation, and I waswondering if anyone out there had any advi...  View more

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Keychains

Hey All- When you are making your base OS images do you delete the keychains? I just noticed when testing a 10.5.4 one that when I open Safari it asked me to unlock a login keychain. I looked in Keychain Access and there is a "Safari Forms Auto-Fill"...  View more

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Add printers without admin rights

We are currently rolling out Macbook Pros to mobile users that need theability to add printers on their own when in not company locations. We arenot wanting to give these users admin rights. Has anyone been able toproduce a script or a package that w...  View more

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Dual booting Macbooks!!!!

Due to powers that be it looks like I must load Windows on all of our Macbooks for one piece of software. This is a critical piece of software that our users need and there is no alternative, for a long story short. So, the software company that is i...  View more

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License Information Not Traveling to Images

Hi, we're relatively new to this whole imaging thing, our Jump Start endedyesterday, and we've run into a problem that looks like it's bound to repeatitself with other software. We're running Graphic Converter under a site license. In the old days, w...  View more

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MPKG's

Hello all, I feel as if I should know this, but admittedly, I do not... Is there a good method to follow for deploying MPKG's? In particular, thenew XML File Format Converter from Microsoft, or any of their otherupdaters? Part two of this, is what ab...  View more

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BASC and CompuTrace installers

Has anyone had any luck with creating a package for either of theseprograms? BASC is what our psychologists use for testing and CompuTrace is lojackfor laptops. For some reason BASC will only install/update if the user is an admin. The CompuTrace ins...  View more

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New computers not properly entering smart groups

Hello all, I was wondering if anyone had experienced computers not entering intosmart groups properly? For example we just received some new macbooks that we imaged with afreshly built 10.5.3 base, the image went well and everything laid downexcept f...  View more

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Juniper VPN Client

Hey, Has anyone taken a crack at creating an install for the Juniper Client? Paul AustinWachoviaInformation TechnologyEnterprise Strategy and Design704-427-0903paul.austin at wachovia.com  View more

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Firefox Plug-ins

Does anyone know how to install plug-ins (Add-ons) for Firefox using Casper? It seems like the path that Firefox uses to store the plug- ins is: ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/ xxxxxxxx.default/extensions/ [where: xxxxxxx = randomly g...  View more

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Casper v the others

Hello Casper Community, I have been asked to put a report together on the Pros and Cons of Casper v Filewave, LANrev, RADmind and LANDesk. Has anyone done such a thing? Rather than spend months doing this when we will almost certainly go with Casper,...  View more

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Recon on a PC using group policy

Has anyone been successful in getting recon to run on a PC using a grouppolicy? We have tried but it never really seems to report back. Rich DagelSenior Technology Specialist Landor Associates1001 Front StreetSan Francisco, CA 94111United States415 3...  View more

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binary question

If I wanted to create a new installer package with all my serversettings for the clients, how would I do so? When we set up everythingJosh did it for us. I want to create a new package that has the newestbinary for Leopard 10.5 and is set to our serv...  View more

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Local KDC and imaging: Feature Request

Hmm, an almost deafening silence on this one. Well, I wonder if it On 16 Jun 2008, at 16:35, James Partridge wrote:would be a good feature to add in to Casper to reset the LKDC at image creation time and/or post-imaging. Just for clarification I disc...  View more

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Local KDC and imaging

I was wondering what strategies, if any, people were following to deal with possible problems with the local KDC caused by imaging 10.5 Macs and binding them to a directory service. I have in mind the specific problem described at . Is anyone resetti...  View more

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Quark 7 install issues

Hi Guys, Hope you can shed some light on a install issue I am having. I've created a quark install image in composer by creatingthe before & after snapshots. The install is for Quark 7.2 PPC, when running the installthrough Casper it takes about 15 s...  View more

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hidden users in 10.5

Since we are migrating into 10.5 I want to set up a few local hiddenuser accounts. 1 for local administration by the IT staff and the otherfor all the casper stuff. Before I would just create the user, move itto a different directory, change and appl...  View more

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Mounting SMB share at login (kerberos)

Hey all- Does anyone mount SMB shares at login using kerberized credentials? I'm working on a script to mount user shares as a login policy and haven't gotten it to work because of a gssd failure (error 19777, no kredential cash found, yet I can `kli...  View more

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CS3 Strategies

Hoping to tap the vast wealth of knowledge that is in this group.... My company has finally purchased CS3 and I am looking for the beststrategies for deployment as part of an initial configuration. I have beentesting for several days with mixed resul...  View more

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Apple Pro Apps

Hi, I have found that when creating packages for the apple pro apps the packagedoesn©öt hold the license key so when these apps are deployed and upon firstlaunch the app requires the serial no to be re-entered. I have found howeverthat when a volume ...  View more

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Configure LDAP via DHCP

Anyone have a script to trip the "Add DHCP Supplied LDAP"? The only way I can see to do it is via a shell script using sed or something else to edit the plist file. Steve WoodDirector, Information Technologyswood at integerdallas.com The Integer Grou...  View more

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Leopard Server ? Ready for prime time ?

This is slightly off topic but I'm curious to know if many of you are running Leopard Server in lab environments yet,and how that is going ? With the release of 10.5.3 I was planning on deploying a few of these these summer, butI have been reading of...  View more

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Removing software

Request: Add a select all button to the remove software section in the individualrecord section of inventory. We like to keep records of retired hdwe buthave no need to keep associated software as it is always redeployed, orupgraded when new hardware...  View more

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migration to leopard

This is not a specific question to Casper, but thought I would ask someof you since you all may have already done this. I need to migrate our Tiger servers to Leopard servers, and this is allbecause we need Leopard clients. Plus we will be ordering s...  View more

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User home directory on third Volume

We are running with 3 partitions on hard drive Restore ­hidden to userMacOS- all applicationsData -User Home directory and scratch Two weeks ago user changed names of two drives they can see. On restart itcreated a new empty user home directory on th...  View more

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CCA training course

Who all has done this? What did it entail? I think I am going toChicago and the end of June for the course. A little feedback to thosewho have gone would be great. Thanks! Thomas LarkinTIS DepartmentKCKPS USD500tlarki at kckps.orgcell: 913-449-7589of...  View more

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Licensed Software Definitions

Hi, Just wondered before I issue a bug report whether anyone had figured a workaround to the following issue? We, like many shops, have both Mac and Windows boxes with cross- platform licenses for the various pieces of software we run. I like to use ...  View more

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Erase new HD prior to imaging

Hi All-Wondered if others have had this issue:Brand new machines that go right from box to netboot > Image using Erase HD in Casper don't go (they hang, and not always in the same spot in the configuration). If we erase them first w/ Disk Utility (wi...  View more

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