Enabled File Sharing on all Macs using JSS

[smitty1923]

Does anyone know if it's possible to enable file sharing on all Macs in our office using a JSS policy or Config profile? I've done some research and I've seen some talk about scripts and putting a script in a policy but I'm not sure of that process. Thanks for the help in advance.

[andrew_nicholas]

This JAMF Nation article may point you in the right direction to develop your script, then you can just call it via a Policy at the determined interval.

[smitty1923]

@andrew.nicholas Thank you for the suggestion. This is the script I have so far? Do you have any insight?

!/bin/sh

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# ABOUT THIS PROGRAM

NAME

enableFileSharing.sh -- Enables or Disables Personal File Sharing on Mac OS X Clients.

SYNOPSIS

sudo enableFileSharing.sh

sudo enableFileSharing.sh <mountPoint> <computerName> <currentUsername> <enableFileSharing>

If there is a hardcoded value specified for <enableFileSharing> in the script,

or if the parameter is not passed by The Casper Suite, the hardcoded value in the script will

be used.

The data that is specified for the <enableFileSharing> parameter should be specified in one of

the following formats:

"t" "T" "true" "True" "TRUE"

"f" "F" "false" "False" "FALSE"

"y" "Y" "yes" "Yes "YES"

"n" "N" "no" "No" "NO"

DESCRIPTION

This script enables or disables the Personal File Sharing preference on Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

It can be used with a hardcoded value in the script, or read in as a parameter.

Since the Casper Suite defines the first three parameters as (1) Mount Point, (2) Computer

Name and (3) username, we are using the fourth parameter ($4) as the passable parameter to

acquire the status of <enableFileSharing>. In addition, the fourth parameter is utilized to set

the enableFileSharing parameter.

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# HISTORY

Version: 1.0

- Created by Nick Amundsen on August 6th, 2008

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# DEFINE VARIABLES & READ IN PARAMETERS

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HARDCODED VALUE FOR "enableFileSharing" IS SET HERE

enableFileSharing=""

CHECK TO SEE IF A VALUE WAS PASSED IN PARAMETER 4 AND, IF SO, ASSIGN TO "enableFileSharing"

if [ "$4" != "" ] && [ "$enableFileSharing" == "" ]; then enableFileSharing=$4
fi

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# SCRIPT CONTENTS - DO NOT MODIFY BELOW THIS LINE

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if [ "$enableFileSharing" == "" ]; then echo "Error: The parameter 'enableFileSharing' is blank. Please specify a value." exit 1
fi

OS=/usr/bin/defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion ProductVersion | awk '{print substr($1,1,4)}'

if [[ "$OS" < "10.5" ]]
then case $enableFileSharing in "t" | "T" |"true" | "True" | "TRUE" | "y" | "Y" | "yes" | "Yes" | "YES") echo "Enabling File Sharing for OS $OS ..." ### Write out AFPSERVER key to hostconfig /usr/bin/sed 's/AFPSERVER=-NO-/AFPSERVER=-YES-/g' /private/etc/hostconfig > /tmp/hostconfig

### Replace old hostconfig with new /bin/mv /private/etc/hostconfig /private/etc/hostconfig.bac /bin/mv /tmp/hostconfig /private/etc/hostconfig /usr/sbin/chown root:admin /private/etc/hostconfig /bin/chmod 644 /private/etc/hostconfig

### Start AFP echo "Starting Personal File Sharing..." /usr/sbin/AppleFileServer;; "f" | "F" | "false" | "False" | "FALSE" | "n" | "N" | "no" | "No" | "NO") echo "Disabling File Sharing for OS $OS ..." ### Write out AFPSERVER key to hostconfig /usr/bin/sed 's/AFPSERVER=-YES-/AFPSERVER=-NO-/g' /private/etc/hostconfig > /tmp/hostconfig

### Replace old hostconfig with new /bin/mv /private/etc/hostconfig /private/etc/hostconfig.bac /bin/mv /tmp/hostconfig /private/etc/hostconfig /usr/sbin/chown root:admin /private/etc/hostconfig /bin/chmod 644 /private/etc/hostconfig

### Kill AFP echo "Disabling Personal File Sharing..." /usr/bin/killall AppleFileServer;; esac
fi

if [[ "$OS" > "10.4" ]]
then case $enableFileSharing in "t" | "T" |"true" | "True" | "TRUE" | "y" | "Y" | "yes" | "Yes" | "YES") echo "Enabling File Sharing for OS $OS ..." /bin/launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist;; "f" | "F" | "false" | "False" | "FALSE" | "n" | "N" | "no" | "No" | "NO") echo "Disabling File Sharing for OS $OS ..." /bin/launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist;; esac
fi

[andrew_nicholas]

If thats the script straight from the Scripts page of JAMF Nation I imagine it would be fine but I would test first to ensure it works as expected.

[mm2270]

This part of the script will fail if run on Yosemite and up

OS=/usr/bin/defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion ProductVersion | awk '{print substr($1,1,4)}'

Its been well posted about on other threads that many of JAMF's older scripts using this method of checking the OS version fall down when run on 10.10.