[Casper] Getting rid of the "shared" computers list in the sidebar

[Eric Young]

Excellent thank you.



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Eric Young
eyoung at thayer.org




On Jul 17, 2008, at 5:06 PM, John DeTroye wrote:

> 1. Set the Sidebar prefs on your admin system to show nothing in  
> "Sharing"
> 2. In WGM/Prefs/Details, add your com.apple.sidebarlists.plist to  
> "Often"
> 3. Remove all but the following from the entry:
>
> <pastedGraphic.tiff>
>
> 4. All of your bound clients will have the "Sharing" section turned  
> off.
> Note: If the user turns any portion of it back on in Finder/ 
> Preferences, the "Sharing" will return (escalations might get this  
> fixed... hint, hint)
>
> Of course you are using WGM/MCX to manage your Mac preference  
> policies, right?
>
> :-)
>
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> On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Leacy, Miles wrote:
>
>> Ooh!  I did this after much digging.  I don’t have the info in  
>> front of me, but if no one beats me to it, I’ll post it here when I  
>> get back from my business trip.
>>
>>
>> On 7/17/08 2:20 PM, "Eric Young" <eyoung at thayer.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I there a repeatable way to set the system so that the Shared  
>>> sidebar
>>> does not show up?  I have set all the sharing and screen sharing as
>>> off but the sidebar still shows seemingly random computers on the
>>> local subnet.
>>>
>>> thanks.
>

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