The File Share you are mounting is from this computer.

[tcandela]

I get this pop-up each time running 'casper admin' so I click 'Mount Share' and 'casper admin' opens up. Am I getting this because I am trying to run 'casper admin' from the same computer the share is on?

First time I have setup Casper Suite/JSS, this is a test environment running on OS X.9, but i want to get it setup just like an actual production environment.

I created a share at the root of 'macintosh hd' called JSSDIST, created two new users (one has RW and other R). Is this the correct way of creating this share?

the rest of the pop-up message says:

OS X can lock up if a file share is mounted from the same computer it is being shared from.

If you would like to continue, click the 'Mount Share' button. If you would like to work without having the share mounted, click the 'work without share' button. To quit and launch casper admin on another computer, click the 'quit' button.

[davidacland · Accepted solution]

You're right, Casper Admin is supposed to be run from another computer. I have seen some people forcing it to run on the distribution point server but I find it much better (and safer) to run it on a different Mac, normally the one I'm using to build the packages etc.

[Chris_Hafner]

Sounds like it's time to virtualize your test environment. There are so many ways to do this. Take a look at Rich's presentation from the JNUC and then follow along on his blog. http://www.jamfsoftware.com/resources/bringing-the-casper-suite-to-life-with-virtual-test-environments/

It will get into a lot of testing of client computers but the same thing can easily be applied to running these for the JSS and other server components for test purposes.