Setting background preference

[neherna]

I am trying to set all our computers to a custom background image. I went to "Create managed preference-Create from template-com.apple.desktop-create background." There is a script there and I replaced the image file path with one on my desktop. I didn't change anything else. It didn't work. I'm not sure if I am supposed to distribute that file somehow or do something else with the script. Any help would be appreciated.

[mm2270]

If you're trying to set a custom image as the Desktop background and not something that ships with the OS, you need to deploy that image file to your Macs, and it has to be placed in a user accessible location, like /Library/Desktop Pictures/ or /Users/Shared/ You can't set the path to say, the local administrator's Pictures folder since other user accounts can't read into that.
Also, what shows up there is not a script, but rather a property list (plist) setting that the OS uses.

[neherna]

Makes sense. Thanks.