File Share distribution point READ ONLY & READ/WRITE accounts

[tcandela]

when creating (running JSS 9.61 on OS X.7)
Create an account that has "Ready only" access to the share.
Create an account that has "Ready & Write" access to the share.

Is it just a matter of going into system preferences and creating 2 standard users and providing them the above access?
I have done this and now both accounts are created, and both accounts are seen in the 'DISPLAY LOGIN WINDOW' -- list of users Is this supposed to be the case ???

these 2 users are not actually used for anything but the file share distribution point and will not be used to login with?

[adamcodega · Accepted solution]

Correct, these two accounts should only be created on the computer that the distribution point is hosted on.

Other clients use these account credentials to access the distribution point share.

[adamcodega]

I meant to include this link too, say you have your distribution point on a Mac mini you log into for other things, you can hide any account you want from the login screen to make it cleaner, less confusing, etc.

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203998

[donmontalvo]

duplicate post

[donmontalvo]

For OS X Servers, we generally set up casperadmin and casperinstall as Sharing Only accounts on the box hosting the Distribution Point. I know...who even uses OS X Servers any more. LOL. No need to hide the accounts, they're server side accounts that are only used to mount the CasperShare. I know...who doesn't use HTTP any more (well, Casper Admin needs AFP/SMB to mount the share so it can upload - heading over to add a Feature Request to lift that requirement now). LOL.

[donmontalvo]

Here ya go:

Please lift AFP/SMB requirement, so Casper Admin can work over HTTP
https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/featureRequest.html?id=3031