From clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca Fri May 1 08:19:10 2009 From: clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca (Clinton Blackmore) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 09:19:10 -0600 Subject: [Casper] Asset Tracking Message-ID: <1D68F6A3-755F-4E42-AC38-BFDDB2FD6818@westwind.ab.ca> Greetings. When a computer fails, especially one in our one-to-one project, we often replace it with a different computer of the same type. If we don't have other clear records, does Casper provide a way to find which computers a given person has owned or used? [For example, I suspect that we have replaced a given user's computer more than once, and want to check. Can I do so?] I know that, for a given computer, you can look at the location history (and, IIRC, when a user logs in to our system, a policy adds them as the owner of the computer). I also know that you can search in the logs (as far back as they go) and it seems that this may have bearing on the question at hand, but I have not seen how to get out the information I want. Regardless of if Casper can provide me with the information, what tools have you found valuable in keeping track of asset history? Thank you, Clinton Blackmore This email has been scanned by Barracuda Network's Anti-Virus and Spam Firewall. From tlarki at kckps.org Fri May 1 09:29:58 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 11:29:58 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Asset Tracking In-Reply-To: <1D68F6A3-755F-4E42-AC38-BFDDB2FD6818@westwind.ab.ca> References: <1D68F6A3-755F-4E42-AC38-BFDDB2FD6818@westwind.ab.ca> Message-ID: <49FADD36.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> I also work in a massive 1:1 and I live and die by usage logs. Granted this only logs when a user logs in and out of a laptop and most of our users log in a total of a dozen times in a whole school year. However, they have to log in to use it. Under the Admin tab in the JSS if you see the search bar on the bottom left, you can input a user's user name and it will pull up every computer they have ever logged into. Usage logs are logs that I keep too all school year. I only wipe them over the summer. So if you have a user that is logging into multiple machines they are either logging into lots of spares, or they are logging into other people's machines. Then you can start poking around all those machines history. Like for example if a laptop that a user in question has not checked in for a month I know it is probably out for repair. I can then check my repair documents and sure enough that asset tag is there. Our in house developers actually just created a really awesome web based inventory system with a full history, work order ticket system, a check in/out log, and all sorts of other goodies where all I have to do is log in, scan the bar code and boom, pulls it up. We are working on possibly toying with the idea of tying the casper database into it as well. So we can pull last IP and last contact time but that is down the road. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Clinton Blackmore 05/01/09 10:19 AM >>> Greetings. When a computer fails, especially one in our one-to-one project, we often replace it with a different computer of the same type. If we don't have other clear records, does Casper provide a way to find which computers a given person has owned or used? [For example, I suspect that we have replaced a given user's computer more than once, and want to check. Can I do so?] I know that, for a given computer, you can look at the location history (and, IIRC, when a user logs in to our system, a policy adds them as the owner of the computer). I also know that you can search in the logs (as far back as they go) and it seems that this may have bearing on the question at hand, but I have not seen how to get out the information I want. Regardless of if Casper can provide me with the information, what tools have you found valuable in keeping track of asset history? Thank you, Clinton Blackmore This email has been scanned by Barracuda Network's Anti-Virus and Spam Firewall. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090501/e6ec6880/attachment.html From jeremymatthews at mac.com Fri May 1 17:26:11 2009 From: jeremymatthews at mac.com (Jeremy Matthews) Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 20:26:11 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Asset Tracking In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3657EF15-2CE5-4D34-9503-D9394FE8809E@mac.com> WebHelpDesk has helped us out in many of these aspects, since it retains a basic history on each asset....and integrates with Casper. From jgreenaway at lblp.com Mon May 4 08:42:04 2009 From: jgreenaway at lblp.com (jgreenaway) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 08:42:04 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Return errors to Casper Remote from scripts Message-ID: How do you return an error to Casper Remote from a (php) script? I'm trying different exit codes but none seem to work. I can echo out error messages that are visible from the "View Log" but I want a visual que under the "Error Occurred" portion. Perhaps it's an environment variable I need to set? Thanks -Jim From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Mon May 4 10:10:01 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 13:10:01 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Asset Tags in casper Message-ID: Hi- So I keep track of computers' asset tag numbers in Casper. Right now it's a manual process whereby I ask the user what their asset tag number is and then I plunk it into Casper. We're going to be going to production soon and this would require a lot of manual overhead on my (or any other admin's) part. Ideally, I'd like to prompt the user for this information and then store it in Casper. I know how to prompt a user on the command line (e.g. Use a script for this), store it and then write it out to a dummy receipt file, but I'd like it to look better. What's the best way to do this? I could make an AppleScript studio app to do it, but I don't know if that's the best way. I don't know any cocoa, but I have a feeling that would be the best way to go - perhaps that'd be a good "first app" to create? Thoughts? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090504/6c348edb/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Mon May 4 10:32:39 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 12:32:39 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Asset Tags in casper In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49FEE067.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> do you use the asset tag anywhere in the image? for example we use the asset tag as part of the computer name, so I would be easily scriptable from that perspective. Do you guys log the asset tags anywhere? ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Nichols, Jared" 05/04/09 12:10 PM >>> Hi- So I keep track of computers? asset tag numbers in Casper. Right now it?s a manual process whereby I ask the user what their asset tag number is and then I plunk it into Casper. We?re going to be going to production soon and this would require a lot of manual overhead on my (or any other admin?s) part. Ideally, I?d like to prompt the user for this information and then store it in Casper. I know how to prompt a user on the command line (e.g. Use a script for this), store it and then write it out to a dummy receipt file, but I?d like it to look better. What?s the best way to do this? I could make an AppleScript studio app to do it, but I don?t know if that?s the best way. I don?t know any cocoa, but I have a feeling that would be the best way to go ? perhaps that?d be a good ?first app? to create? Thoughts? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090504/4cc7835f/attachment.htm From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Mon May 4 10:39:50 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 13:39:50 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Asset Tags in casper In-Reply-To: <49FEE067.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: Currently we have zero naming convention, but that may or may not change in the future. If it does, asset tag will likely be incorporated into the machine name, thus negating my need to track it. However, I'm not relying on anything changing (this is Government after all :) ) and I'd like to get this set up. Some folks do name their machines with their asset tag number (bless them) though this is more rare. All I really want to do is prompt a simple box that asks for the asset tag number with a clear and OK button. On OK, it'll do a touch /Library/Application\ Support/JAMF/Recipts/$assettag.pkg so it'll show up as a receipt in Casper. Then I can plunk in the number easily. Would there be a way to perform a database write function to make this happen to take the manual interaction out completely? j On 5/4/09 13:32 , "Thomas Larkin" wrote: do you use the asset tag anywhere in the image? for example we use the asset tag as part of the computer name, so I would be easily scriptable from that perspective. Do you guys log the asset tags anywhere? ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Nichols, Jared" 05/04/09 12:10 PM >>> Hi- So I keep track of computers' asset tag numbers in Casper. Right now it's a manual process whereby I ask the user what their asset tag number is and then I plunk it into Casper. We're going to be going to production soon and this would require a lot of manual overhead on my (or any other admin's) part. Ideally, I'd like to prompt the user for this information and then store it in Casper. I know how to prompt a user on the command line (e.g. Use a script for this), store it and then write it out to a dummy receipt file, but I'd like it to look better. What's the best way to do this? I could make an AppleScript studio app to do it, but I don't know if that's the best way. I don't know any cocoa, but I have a feeling that would be the best way to go - perhaps that'd be a good "first app" to create? Thoughts? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090504/ae1a7198/attachment.htm From adamshep07 at aol.com Mon May 4 11:12:01 2009 From: adamshep07 at aol.com (adamshep07 at aol.com) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 14:12:01 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Asset Tags in casper In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8CB9AFAF4C48ED1-B80-3F7@MBLK-M26.sysops.aol.com> We use the asset tag in our naming convention Example: CS-123456 Below is the script that simply grabs the last 6 characters and populates this into casper. The script is set to run at reboot so the name has already been set when imaging. #!/bin/sh COMPNAME=`/usr/sbin/scutil --get ComputerName` echo "jamf recon -assetTag ${COMPNAME:(-6)}" jamf recon -skipApps -skipFonts -skipPlugins -assetTag ${COMPNAME:(-6)} Cheers, -Adam Adam Shepard Creighton School District Web Developer / System Administrator [Office 602-381-6000][Cell 602-319-8935] -----Original Message----- From: Nichols, Jared To: Casper List Sent: Mon, 4 May 2009 10:10 am Subject: [Casper] Asset Tags in casper Hi- So I keep track of computers? asset tag numbers in Casper. ?Right now it?s a manual process whereby I ask the user what their asset tag number is and then I plunk it into Casper. ?We?re going to be going to production soon and this would require a lot of manual overhead on my (or any other admin?s) part. ?Ideally, I?d like to prompt the user for this information and then store it in Casper. ?I know how to prompt a user on the command line (e.g. Use a script for this), store it and then write it out to a dummy receipt file, but I?d like it to look better. ?What?s the best way to do this? ?I could make an AppleScript studio app to do it, but I don?t know if that?s the best way. ?I don?t know any cocoa, but I have a feeling that would be the best way to go ? perhaps that?d be a good ?first app? to create? Thoughts? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From chris.white at friscoisd.org Mon May 4 14:21:28 2009 From: chris.white at friscoisd.org (White, Christopher) Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 16:21:28 -0500 Subject: [Casper] unBindOD.sh Message-ID: <0BF80D396FFC0D44A165EE37224087BA01CF613A19@fisd-mb01.ads.friscoisd.org> Has anyone successfully used this script to unbind workstations from Open Directory? I have put in the server name, username and password in the script. Run the script. Doesn't take the workstation out of Open Directory... Christopher White Frisco ISD W. Phone: (469) 633-6283 C. Phone: (214) 293-1393 Email: chris.white at friscoisd.org Blog: https://wiki.friscoisd.org/users/chris.white/ [cid:image003.jpg at 01C9CCD4.60CC3AE0] This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee) you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender by reply e- mail and delete the message. This email may contain the thoughts and opinions of the employee sending the message and may not represent the official policy of Frisco Independent Schools. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090504/a0b0cb77/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1240 bytes Desc: image003.jpg Url : http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090504/a0b0cb77/attachment.jpg From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Mon May 4 14:47:50 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 17:47:50 -0400 Subject: [Casper] font issue.. Message-ID: Hi, I'm having an issue where an application rejects a specific font that's installed once a user runs MS Word. I need to be able to delete that font of the user's once they run MS Word but I can't figure out how to do this. I was hoing to avoid using launch agents. Does anyone know how to handle this? John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090504/53fe914b/attachment.htm From william.smith at merrillcorp.com Mon May 4 15:53:23 2009 From: william.smith at merrillcorp.com (Smith, William) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 17:53:23 -0500 Subject: [Casper] font issue.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: What version of Word? Office 2004 installs fonts at first run into ~/Library/Fonts but Office 2008 installs fonts into /Library/Microsoft during installation of the suite. With Office 2004, you can simply delete the fonts from /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Fonts (I believe this is the correct location). This is where they come from at first run. With Office 2008 you can opt not to install fonts at all. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 From: John McLaughlin Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 17:47:50 -0400 To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] font issue.. Hi, I'm having an issue where an application rejects a specific font that's installed once a user runs MS Word. I need to be able to delete that font of the user's once they run MS Word but I can't figure out how to do this. I was hoing to avoid using launch agents. Does anyone know how to handle this? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090504/298b8ae9/attachment.htm From william.smith at merrillcorp.com Mon May 4 16:00:18 2009 From: william.smith at merrillcorp.com (Smith, William) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 18:00:18 -0500 Subject: [Casper] font issue.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Correction: Office 2008 installs fonts into /Library/Fonts/Microsoft. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 From: William Smith Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 17:53:23 -0500 To: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] font issue.. What version of Word? Office 2004 installs fonts at first run into ~/Library/Fonts but Office 2008 installs fonts into /Library/Microsoft during installation of the suite. With Office 2004, you can simply delete the fonts from /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Fonts (I believe this is the correct location). This is where they come from at first run. With Office 2008 you can opt not to install fonts at all. From: John McLaughlin Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 17:47:50 -0400 To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] font issue.. Hi, I'm having an issue where an application rejects a specific font that's installed once a user runs MS Word. I need to be able to delete that font of the user's once they run MS Word but I can't figure out how to do this. I was hoing to avoid using launch agents. Does anyone know how to handle this? _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090504/1acc40b3/attachment.html From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Mon May 4 18:48:25 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 21:48:25 -0400 Subject: [Casper] font issue.. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I am using MS Office 2004. I'd prefer not to delete the font all together from it's parent location. Especially, if the user is not receiving this specialized application. I'd like to have a policy or some other mechanism delete the user's font from ~/Library/Fonts when this application runs. Are there any thoughts on how to accomplish this? "Smith, William" <[ mailto:william.smith at merrillcorp.com ]william.smith at merrillcorp.com> writes: Correction: Office 2008 installs fonts into /Library/Fonts/Microsoft. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, L LC (651) 632-1492 ####################################################################### From: William Smith <[ william.smith at merrillcorp.com ]william.smith at merrillcorp.com> Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 17:53:23 -0500 To: Casper List <[ casper at list.jamfsoftware.com ]casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> Subject: Re: [Casper] font issue.. What version of Word? Office 2004 installs fonts at first run into ~/Library/Fonts but Office 2008 installs fonts into /Library/Microsoft during installation of the suite. With Office 2004, you can simply delete the fonts from /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Fonts (I believe this is the corr ect location). This is where they come from at first run. With Office 2008 you can opt not to install fonts at all. ####################################################################### From: John McLaughlin <[ John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us ]John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 17:47:50 -0400 To: Casper List <[ casper at list.jamfsoftware.com ]casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> Subject: [Casper] font issue.. Hi, I'm having an issue where an application rejects a specific font that's installed once a user runs MS Word. I need to be able to delete that font of the user's once they run MS Word but I can't figure out how to do this. I was hoing to avoid using launch agents. Does anyone know how to handle this? ####################################################################### _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list [ Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com ]Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com [ http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ]http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list [ mailto:Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com ]Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com [ http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ]http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090504/62c39a75/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Mon May 4 21:25:39 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 23:25:39 -0500 Subject: [Casper] unBindOD.sh Message-ID: <49FF7973020000390000CE78@gwoes4.kckps.org> I don't see a script but I have one I wrote on my site which does work and it will delete the bind and rebind to a new DNS. This is if you ever have to promote/demote your ODM to a new computer and want your computers to be rebound to the new server. http://tlarkin.com/tech/shell-script-remove-clients-bindings-old-server-and-then-bind-them-new-directory-server Also, it looks like I got my first spam ever in the comments section, that must mean my site is getting traffic! Time to make it look better then. Let me know if it doesn't work for you. Thanks Tom ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "White, Christopher" 05/04/09 4:49 PM >>> Has anyone successfully used this script to unbind workstations from Open Directory? I have put in the server name, username and password in the script. Run the script. Doesn't take the workstation out of Open Directory... Christopher White Frisco ISD W. Phone: (469) 633-6283 C. Phone: (214) 293-1393 Email: chris.white at friscoisd.org Blog: https://wiki.friscoisd.org/users/chris.white/ [cid:image003.jpg at 01C9CCD4.60CC3AE0] This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee) you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender by reply e- mail and delete the message. This email may contain the thoughts and opinions of the employee sending the message and may not represent the official policy of Frisco Independent Schools. From tlarki at kckps.org Mon May 4 21:26:30 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 23:26:30 -0500 Subject: [Casper] font issue.. Message-ID: <49FF79A6020000390000CE7D@gwoes4.kckps.org> Have any of you tried using symbolic links? ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "John McLaughlin" 05/04/09 9:16 PM >>> I am using MS Office 2004. I'd prefer not to delete the font all together from it's parent location. Especially, if the user is not receiving this specialized application. I'd like to have a policy or some other mechanism delete the user's font from ~/Library/Fonts when this application runs. Are there any thoughts on how to accomplish this? "Smith, William" <[ mailto:william.smith at merrillcorp.com ]william.smith at merrillcorp.com> writes: Correction: Office 2008 installs fonts into /Library/Fonts/Microsoft. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, L LC (651) 632-1492 ####################################################################### From: William Smith <[ william.smith at merrillcorp.com ]william.smith at merrillcorp.com> Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 17:53:23 -0500 To: Casper List <[ casper at list.jamfsoftware.com ]casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> Subject: Re: [Casper] font issue.. What version of Word? Office 2004 installs fonts at first run into ~/Library/Fonts but Office 2008 installs fonts into /Library/Microsoft during installation of the suite. With Office 2004, you can simply delete the fonts from /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Fonts (I believe this is the corr ect location). This is where they come from at first run. With Office 2008 you can opt not to install fonts at all. ####################################################################### From: John McLaughlin <[ John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us ]John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 17:47:50 -0400 To: Casper List <[ casper at list.jamfsoftware.com ]casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> Subject: [Casper] font issue.. Hi, I'm having an issue where an application rejects a specific font that's installed once a user runs MS Word. I need to be able to delete that font of the user's once they run MS Word but I can't figure out how to do this. I was hoing to avoid using launch agents. Does anyone know how to handle this? ####################################################################### _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list [ Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com ]Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com [ http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ]http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list [ mailto:Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com ]Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com [ http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ]http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools From jgreenaway at lblp.com Tue May 5 06:28:08 2009 From: jgreenaway at lblp.com (jgreenaway) Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 06:28:08 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Return errors to Casper Remote from scripts Message-ID: So it looks like if you echo the word "error" from a script Casper Remote will detect this as an error. That works, although it seems Casper could receive false positives using this logic. Come to think of it this explains some Casper Remote errors I was seeing with an rsync script I was working on. I had an option to show every file rsync was transferring. I bet when it transferred a file like "error.log" and printed that to stdout Casper Remote thought an error occurred. Perhaps I'm doing this wrong? I'm not sure if the JAMF guys monitor this list but it would be nice to have a feature to trigger the error in Casper Remote via an exit code or setting a custom environment variable. -Jim jgreenaway on May 4, 2009 at 8:42 AM -0700 wrote: >How do you return an error to Casper Remote from a (php) script? I'm trying different exit codes >but none seem to work. I can echo out error messages that are visible from the "View Log" but I >want a visual que under the "Error Occurred" portion. Perhaps it's an environment variable I need >to set? >Thanks >-Jim From ecwade at capousd.org Tue May 5 09:17:29 2009 From: ecwade at capousd.org (Wade, Evan C.) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:17:29 -0700 Subject: [Casper] SMART Notebook, Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages Message-ID: <8849EFC485BBB646A2706F0A1C89A584A45531@DIST-WIN-MAIL-8.cusdnet.org> Has anyone had any positive results using Casper tools for remote installations of SMART Technologies products? My district uses SMART Airliners and Senteo classroom response units. The software does not deploy successfully as a DMG built with composer, nor does it deploy correctly if we just add the vendor PKG and MPKG packages to the repository. I've been desperate to find a fix for this, because the alternative is having to manually install 700MB worth of applications and clipart on hundreds of systems at dozens of schools. Evan Wade TIS Support - 949-234-5500 Capistrano Unified School District -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090505/b0121023/attachment.htm From kiorizzo at latinschool.org Tue May 5 09:19:55 2009 From: kiorizzo at latinschool.org (Kathie Iorizzo) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 11:19:55 -0500 Subject: [Casper] SMART Notebook, Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages In-Reply-To: <8849EFC485BBB646A2706F0A1C89A584A45531@DIST-WIN-MAIL-8.cusdnet.org> References: <8849EFC485BBB646A2706F0A1C89A584A45531@DIST-WIN-MAIL-8.cusdnet.org> Message-ID: <699425BE-053B-4374-B27B-E113EFC9FDE7@latinschool.org> We us Smart Board's throughout our entire campus. I have tried to package this product every which way possible and it NEVER works. I gave up calling Jamf because it wasn't any help. For now.. I use ARD or we manually install. If anyone has any ideas on this.. I would be so thankful. On May 5, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Wade, Evan C. wrote: > Has anyone had any positive results using Casper tools for remote > installations of SMART Technologies products? > > My district uses SMART Airliners and Senteo classroom response > units. The software does not deploy successfully as a DMG built > with composer, nor does it deploy correctly if we just add the > vendor PKG and MPKG packages to the repository. > > I?ve been desperate to find a fix for this, because the alternative > is having to manually install 700MB worth of applications and > clipart on hundreds of systems at dozens of schools. > > > Evan Wade > TIS Support - 949-234-5500 > Capistrano Unified School District > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090505/02dab98f/attachment.html From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Tue May 5 09:30:59 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 11:30:59 -0500 Subject: [Casper] SMART Notebook, Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages In-Reply-To: <699425BE-053B-4374-B27B-E113EFC9FDE7@latinschool.org> References: <8849EFC485BBB646A2706F0A1C89A584A45531@DIST-WIN-MAIL-8.cusdnet.org> <699425BE-053B-4374-B27B-E113EFC9FDE7@latinschool.org> Message-ID: What type of issues exactly are you running into? We are deploying the Smartboard software throughout our district as well. I've only encountered a couple quirks that affected only our AD bound users and Senteo and haven't yet looked into them further. More specific information would be helpful. What problems exactly are you encountering when the package lays down? Are the users bound accounts or local? Are the file permissions being set down correctly? Have you contacted SMART about the issue? What version of Composer are you using? How are you installing the package? At image time, with a policy or with remote? -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Kathie Iorizzo Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:20 AM To: Wade, Evan C. Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Subject: Re: [Casper] SMART Notebook,Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages We us Smart Board's throughout our entire campus. I have tried to package this product every which way possible and it NEVER works. I gave up calling Jamf because it wasn't any help. For now.. I use ARD or we manually install. If anyone has any ideas on this.. I would be so thankful. On May 5, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Wade, Evan C. wrote: Has anyone had any positive results using Casper tools for remote installations of SMART Technologies products? My district uses SMART Airliners and Senteo classroom response units. The software does not deploy successfully as a DMG built with composer, nor does it deploy correctly if we just add the vendor PKG and MPKG packages to the repository. I've been desperate to find a fix for this, because the alternative is having to manually install 700MB worth of applications and clipart on hundreds of systems at dozens of schools. Evan Wade TIS Support - 949-234-5500 Capistrano Unified School District _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090505/a33ffc45/attachment.html From kiorizzo at latinschool.org Tue May 5 09:33:00 2009 From: kiorizzo at latinschool.org (Kathie Iorizzo) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 11:33:00 -0500 Subject: [Casper] SMART Notebook, Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages In-Reply-To: References: <8849EFC485BBB646A2706F0A1C89A584A45531@DIST-WIN-MAIL-8.cusdnet.org> <699425BE-053B-4374-B27B-E113EFC9FDE7@latinschool.org> Message-ID: <729925FD-954B-4BB1-A97B-A9E3078DAAFA@latinschool.org> The main problem I have is the notebook software will say "Notebook has encountered and error and needs to be reinstalled" On May 5, 2009, at 11:30 AM, Dorey, Dustin wrote: > What type of issues exactly are you running into? We are deploying > the Smartboard software throughout our district as well. I?ve only > encountered a couple quirks that affected only our AD bound users > and Senteo and haven?t yet looked into them further. More specific > information would be helpful. What problems exactly are you > encountering when the package lays down? Are the users bound > accounts or local? Are the file permissions being set down > correctly? Have you contacted SMART about the issue? What version > of Composer are you using? How are you installing the package? At > image time, with a policy or with remote? > > -Dusty- > > > Dustin Dorey > Technology Support Cluster Specialist > Independant School District 196 > Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools > dustin.dorey at district196.org > 651|423|7971 > > > > From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > ] On Behalf Of Kathie Iorizzo > Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:20 AM > To: Wade, Evan C. > Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > Subject: Re: [Casper] SMART Notebook,Drivers and SMART (Senteo) > Response Packages > > We us Smart Board's throughout our entire campus. I have tried to > package this product every which way possible and it NEVER works. I > gave up calling Jamf because it wasn't any help. For now.. I use > ARD or we manually install. If anyone has any ideas on this.. I > would be so thankful. > > On May 5, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Wade, Evan C. wrote: > > > Has anyone had any positive results using Casper tools for remote > installations of SMART Technologies products? > > My district uses SMART Airliners and Senteo classroom response > units. The software does not deploy successfully as a DMG built > with composer, nor does it deploy correctly if we just add the > vendor PKG and MPKG packages to the repository. > > I?ve been desperate to find a fix for this, because the alternative > is having to manually install 700MB worth of applications and > clipart on hundreds of systems at dozens of schools. > > > Evan Wade > TIS Support - 949-234-5500 > Capistrano Unified School District > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090505/3dc1dd7d/attachment.html From ganderson at phrd.ab.ca Tue May 5 09:28:24 2009 From: ganderson at phrd.ab.ca (Gene Anderson) Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 10:28:24 -0600 Subject: [Casper] =?iso-8859-1?q?SMART_Notebook=2C_=09Drivers_and_SMART_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=28Senteo=29__Response_Packages?= In-Reply-To: <8849EFC485BBB646A2706F0A1C89A584A45531@DIST-WIN-MAIL-8.cusdnet.org> References: <8849EFC485BBB646A2706F0A1C89A584A45531@DIST-WIN-MAIL-8.cusdnet.org> Message-ID: "Wade, Evan C." writes: >Has anyone had any positive results using Casper tools for remote installations of SMART Technologies products? > Positive, no. Successful, sorta. Using ARD and Casper Remote + policies. > > >My district uses SMART Airliners and Senteo classroom response units. The software does not deploy successfully as a DMG built with composer, nor does it deploy correctly if we just add the vendor PKG and MPKG packages to the repository. I had the same result, no Composer snapshots would work and it seemed to be Smart's drivers. I kept getting kernel extension errors. Jamf Support worked with me awhile on this and couldn't get it work. I have no issues with the dozens of apps and packages I deploy. Only Smart's stuff gives me this much greif. One thing I did note is that updates don't work at all, requiring a complete removal of everything before I could reinstall. > >I?ve been desperate to find a fix for this, because the alternative is having to manually install 700MB worth of applications and clipart on hundreds of systems at dozens of schools. I used Smart's Installer Manager application to bundle NoteBook (along with settings & the licensing key) along with the drivers and any desired gallery settings. It creates a custom PKG which I uploaded into CasperAdmin and push out via a policy or with Casper Remote. The package doesn't want to deploy properly within a configuration snapshot and only installs properly once the machine has been fully imaged and booted. Once the machine is imaged, then I deploy the customized Smart PKG, reboot, install the latest SmartBoard drivers (Smart's own pkg) and custom gallery settings (team content, etc), and one more reboot. From adamshep07 at aol.com Tue May 5 09:41:05 2009 From: adamshep07 at aol.com (adamshep07 at aol.com) Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 12:41:05 -0400 Subject: [Casper] SMART Notebook, Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8CB9BB76AAD1C43-9E0-1447@webmail-mh14.sysops.aol.com> We initially had an issue with our AD users and found the problem to be that the "SMART Board Tools.app" and ""SMARTBoardService.app" were not starting. We added this to WGM as login items. We recently thought about setting up launchd item to start these up and adding that to the deployment packing. Cheers -Adam Adam Shepard Creighton School District Web Developer / System Administrator [Office 602-381-6000][Cell 602-319-8935] -----Original Message----- From: Dorey, Dustin To: Kathie Iorizzo ; Wade, Evan C. Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Sent: Tue, 5 May 2009 9:30 am Subject: Re: [Casper] SMART Notebook, Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages What type of issues exactly are you running into?? We are deploying the Smartboard software throughout our district as well.?? I?ve only encountered a couple quirks that affected only our AD bound users and Senteo and haven?t yet looked into them further.? More specific information would be helpful.?? What problems exactly are you encountering when the package lays down? Are the users bound accounts or local??? Are the file permissions being set down correctly??? Have you contacted SMART about the issue?? What version of Composer are you using?? How are you installing the package?? At image time, with a policy or with remote? ? - Dusty- ? ? Dustin? Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 ? ? ? From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Kathie Iorizzo Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:20 AM To: Wade, Evan C. Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Subject: Re: [Casper] SMART Notebook,Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages ? We us Smart Board's throughout our entire campus. I have tried to package this product every which way possible and it NEVER works. ?I gave up calling Jamf because it wasn't any help. ?For now.. I use ARD or we manually install. ?If anyone has any ideas on this.. I would be so thankful. ? On May 5, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Wade, Evan C. wrote: Has anyone had any positive results using Casper tools for remote installations of SMART Technologies products? ? My district uses SMART Airliners and Senteo classroom response units.? The software does not deploy successfully as a DMG built with composer, nor does it deploy correctly if we just add the vendor PKG and MPKG packages to th e repository. ? I?ve been desperate to find a fix for this, because the alternative is having to manually install 700MB worth of applications and clipart on hundreds of systems at dozens of schools. ? ? Evan Wade TIS Support - 949-234-5500 Capistrano Unified School District ? _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ?_______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From ganderson at phrd.ab.ca Tue May 5 09:32:44 2009 From: ganderson at phrd.ab.ca (Gene Anderson) Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 10:32:44 -0600 Subject: [Casper] =?iso-8859-1?q?SMART_Notebook=2C_=09Drivers_and_SMART_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=28Senteo=29__Response_Packages?= In-Reply-To: <8CB9BB76AAD1C43-9E0-1447@webmail-mh14.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CB9BB76AAD1C43-9E0-1447@webmail-mh14.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: adamshep07 at aol.com writes: >We initially had an issue with our AD users and found the problem to be >that the "SMART Board Tools.app" and ""SMARTBoardService.app" were not >starting. We added this to WGM as login items. We recently thought >about setting up launchd item to start these up and adding that to the >deployment packing. I've seen this when using our customized Smart pkg using Smart's Installer Manager. It doesn't seem to install fully when imaging, but installs properly when deployed after the fact. Something in the pkg seems to go awry unless it has a fully functioning OS to install onto. Gene Anderson Systems Analyst, ACTC, MCP Pembina Hills Regional Division No.7 Phone: (780) 674-8535 ext 6860 email: ganderson at phrd.ab.ca "Passwords are like bubble gum, strongest when fresh, should never be used by groups and create a sticky mess when left laying around" -anon From ecwade at capousd.org Tue May 5 09:48:22 2009 From: ecwade at capousd.org (Wade, Evan C.) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:48:22 -0700 Subject: [Casper] SMART Notebook, Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages In-Reply-To: <8CB9BB76AAD1C43-9E0-1447@webmail-mh14.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CB9BB76AAD1C43-9E0-1447@webmail-mh14.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8849EFC485BBB646A2706F0A1C89A584A45570@DIST-WIN-MAIL-8.cusdnet.org> 99% of our teacher Mac systems are laptops with local-only accounts (not bound to OD or AD). We've tried both Casper Remote and Casper policies for installation. The software loads, but won't run (crashes without any error messages being displayed). I have verified that permissions are correct. I called SMART, which usually takes them 2-3 weeks to respond, and they suggested that I call JAMF since they only support single installations. In my experience, SMART holds things so close to the chest that you'll never get any details about how their product installs or what it needs to run other than the list of hardware requirements. From looking at this, I'm wondering if adding a couple of startup items might not solve the issue. Thank you for your help! :-) Evan Wade TIS Support Technician - 949-234-5500 Capistrano Unified School District -----Original Message----- From: adamshep07 at aol.com [mailto:adamshep07 at aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:41 AM To: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org; kiorizzo at latinschool.org; Wade, Evan C. Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Subject: Re: [Casper] SMART Notebook, Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages We initially had an issue with our AD users and found the problem to be that the "SMART Board Tools.app" and ""SMARTBoardService.app" were not starting. We added this to WGM as login items. We recently thought about setting up launchd item to start these up and adding that to the deployment packing. Cheers -Adam Adam Shepard Creighton School District Web Developer / System Administrator [Office 602-381-6000][Cell 602-319-8935] -----Original Message----- From: Dorey, Dustin To: Kathie Iorizzo ; Wade, Evan C. Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Sent: Tue, 5 May 2009 9:30 am Subject: Re: [Casper] SMART Notebook, Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages What type of issues exactly are you running into?? We are deploying the Smartboard software throughout our district as well.?? I?ve only encountered a couple quirks that affected only our AD bound users and Senteo and haven?t yet looked into them further.? More specific information would be helpful.?? What problems exactly are you encountering when the package lays down? Are the users bound accounts or local??? Are the file permissions being set down correctly??? Have you contacted SMART about the issue?? What version of Composer are you using?? How are you installing the package?? At image time, with a policy or with remote? ? - Dusty- ? ? Dustin? Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 ? ? ? From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Kathie Iorizzo Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:20 AM To: Wade, Evan C. Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Subject: Re: [Casper] SMART Notebook,Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages ? We us Smart Board's throughout our entire campus. I have tried to package this product every which way possible and it NEVER works. ?I gave up calling Jamf because it wasn't any help. ?For now.. I use ARD or we manually install. ?If anyone has any ideas on this.. I would be so thankful. ? On May 5, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Wade, Evan C. wrote: Has anyone had any positive results using Casper tools for remote installations of SMART Technologies products? ? My district uses SMART Airliners and Senteo classroom response units.? The software does not deploy successfully as a DMG built with composer, nor does it deploy correctly if we just add the vendor PKG and MPKG packages to th e repository. ? I?ve been desperate to find a fix for this, because the alternative is having to manually install 700MB worth of applications and clipart on hundreds of systems at dozens of schools. ? ? Evan Wade TIS Support - 949-234-5500 Capistrano Unified School District ? _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ?_______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From ganderson at phrd.ab.ca Tue May 5 09:50:14 2009 From: ganderson at phrd.ab.ca (Gene Anderson) Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 10:50:14 -0600 Subject: [Casper] =?iso-8859-1?q?SMART_Notebook=2C_=09Drivers_and_SMART_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=28Senteo=29__Response_Packages?= In-Reply-To: <8849EFC485BBB646A2706F0A1C89A584A45570@DIST-WIN-MAIL-8.cusdnet.org> References: <8849EFC485BBB646A2706F0A1C89A584A45570@DIST-WIN-MAIL-8.cusdnet.org> Message-ID: "Wade, Evan C." writes: >99% of our teacher Mac systems are laptops with local-only accounts (not bound to OD or AD). > >We've tried both Casper Remote and Casper policies for installation. The software loads, but won't run (crashes without any error messages being displayed). I have verified that permissions are correct. > >I called SMART, which usually takes them 2-3 weeks to respond, and they suggested that I call JAMF since they only support single installations. In my experience, SMART holds things so close to the chest that you'll never get any details about how their product installs or what it needs to run other than the list of hardware requirements. > >From looking at this, I'm wondering if adding a couple of startup items might not solve the issue. Does your NoteBook package include the app's preference and license file? And do your users have read access to these files? It's located in /Users/Shared/Library/Preferences/com.smarttech.blah I'm not sure why Smart decided to store their stuff there, since everybody else uses /Library/Preferences for global application and system preferences. Gene Anderson Systems Analyst, ACTC, MCP Pembina Hills Regional Division No.7 Phone: (780) 674-8535 ext 6860 email: ganderson at phrd.ab.ca "Passwords are like bubble gum, strongest when fresh, should never be used by groups and create a sticky mess when left laying around" -anon From chris.white at friscoisd.org Tue May 5 10:36:19 2009 From: chris.white at friscoisd.org (White, Christopher) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 12:36:19 -0500 Subject: [Casper] unbindOD.sh Message-ID: <0BF80D396FFC0D44A165EE37224087BA01CF06D457@fisd-mb01.ads.friscoisd.org> The following is the script that I am attempting to use to unbind workstations from OD (This script is part of the resource kit and it is not working for me) Any suggestions?: #!/bin/sh #################################################################################################### # # Copyright (c) 2008, JAMF Software, LLC # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: # * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. # * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the # documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. # * Neither the name of the JAMF Software, LLC nor the # names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products # derived from this software without specific prior written permission. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY JAMF SOFTWARE, LLC "AS IS" AND ANY # EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED # WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE # DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL JAMF SOFTWARE, LLC BE LIABLE FOR ANY # DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES # (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; # LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND # ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT # (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS # SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # #################################################################################################### # # SUPPORT FOR THIS PROGRAM # # This program is distributed "as is" by JAMF Software, LLC's Resource Kit team. For more # information or support for the Resource Kit, please utilize the following resources: # # http://www.jamfsoftware.com/mailing_lists/ # # http://www.jamfsoftware.com/jamf_nation/resourcekit.php # # Please reference our SLA for information regarding support of this application: # # http://www.jamfsoftware.com/jamf_nation/resourcekit_sla.php # #################################################################################################### # # ABOUT THIS PROGRAM # # NAME # unbindOD.sh -- Unbind from Open Directory. # # SYNOPSIS # sudo unbindOD.sh # sudo unbindOD.sh # # # If the $serverAddress, $username, and $password parameters are specified (parameters 4, 5, and # 6), these will be used to unbind the machine from Open Directory. The username/password that # should be used in this script should be an Open Directory user that has permissions to # remove/unbind a machine from Open Directory. # # If no parameters are specified for parameters 4, 5, and 6, the hardcoded value in the script # will be used. # # DESCRIPTION # This script will unbind a client machine from an Open Directory domain. # The , , and values 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, fifth, and sixth # parameters ($4, $5, $6) as the passable parameters. # #################################################################################################### # # HISTORY # # Version: 1.0 # # - Created by Nick Amundsen on August 7th, 2008 # #################################################################################################### # # DEFINE VARIABLES & READ IN PARAMETERS # #################################################################################################### # HARDCODED VALUES ARE SET HERE serverAddress="" username="" password="" # CHECK TO SEE IF A VALUE WAS PASSED IN PARAMETER 4 AND, IF SO, ASSIGN TO "serverAddress" if [ "$4" != "" ] && [ "$serverAddress" == "" ]; then serverAddress=$4 fi # CHECK TO SEE IF A VALUE WAS PASSED IN PARAMETER 5 AND, IF SO, ASSIGN TO "username" if [ "$5" != "" ] && [ "$username" == "" ]; then username=$5 fi # CHECK TO SEE IF A VALUE WAS PASSED IN PARAMETER 6 AND, IF SO, ASSIGN TO "password" if [ "$6" != "" ] && [ "$password" == "" ]; then password=$6 fi #################################################################################################### # # SCRIPT CONTENTS - DO NOT MODIFY BELOW THIS LINE # #################################################################################################### if [ "$serverAddress" == "" ]; then echo "Error: No Server Address is specified. A Server Address must be specified to unbind the machine." exit 1 fi if [ "$username" == "" ] && [ "$password" == "" ]; then echo "No username/password is specified. Attempting to unbind without credentials." /usr/sbin/dsconfigldap -r "$serverAddress" fi if [ "$username" != "" ] && [ "$password" == "" ]; then echo "Error: No password is specified. Please specify a network password." exit 1 else echo "Unbinding the computer from Open Directory..." /usr/sbin/dsconfigldap -r "$serverAddress" -u "$username" -p "$password" fi Christopher White Frisco ISD W. Phone: (469) 633-6283 C. Phone: (214) 293-1393 Email: chris.white at friscoisd.org Blog: https://wiki.friscoisd.org/users/chris.white/ This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee) you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender by reply e- mail and delete the message. This email may contain the thoughts and opinions of the employee sending the message and may not represent the official policy of Frisco Independent Schools. From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Tue May 5 10:35:10 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 13:35:10 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Capturing ARD custom fields and mapping to the database Message-ID: Hi- So I made an application that prompts the user to enter their computer's asset tag which then sets that value to ARD custom field 1 with defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.RemoteDesktop Text1 466049 In looking in the system preferences/sharing/remote management/computer settings I see that the value was set correctly (466069 in this case). In the JSS, in Admin/Inventory Options/Inventory Preferences, I set ARD Field #1 to map to recon field "Asset Tag." Next I did a sudo jamf recon to see if the asset tag number was picked up and inserted into the JSS and it was not inserted. Am I doing something wrong or does this function just not work the way I'm expecting? I tried it with Remote Management both on and off. j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090505/3d5c4ed2/attachment.htm From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Tue May 5 10:35:10 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 13:35:10 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Capturing ARD custom fields and mapping to the database Message-ID: Hi- So I made an application that prompts the user to enter their computer's asset tag which then sets that value to ARD custom field 1 with defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.RemoteDesktop Text1 466049 In looking in the system preferences/sharing/remote management/computer settings I see that the value was set correctly (466069 in this case). In the JSS, in Admin/Inventory Options/Inventory Preferences, I set ARD Field #1 to map to recon field "Asset Tag." Next I did a sudo jamf recon to see if the asset tag number was picked up and inserted into the JSS and it was not inserted. Am I doing something wrong or does this function just not work the way I'm expecting? I tried it with Remote Management both on and off. j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090505/3d5c4ed2/attachment.html From tlarki at kckps.org Tue May 5 10:56:06 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 12:56:06 -0500 Subject: [Casper] unbindOD.sh In-Reply-To: <0BF80D396FFC0D44A165EE37224087BA01CF06D457@fisd-mb01.ads.friscoisd.org> References: <0BF80D396FFC0D44A165EE37224087BA01CF06D457@fisd-mb01.ads.friscoisd.org> Message-ID: <4A003766.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> This looks very similar to my script but my script doesn't loop and exit if an error is found. This one is maybe perhaps more thorough but the script I use does the same thing. Also, in my main master image no client is bound. Then as a post image and start up script my script runs to bind the client to the proper replica. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "White, Christopher" 05/05/09 12:36 PM >>> The following is the script that I am attempting to use to unbind workstations from OD (This script is part of the resource kit and it is not working for me) Any suggestions?: #!/bin/sh #################################################################################################### # # Copyright (c) 2008, JAMF Software, LLC # All rights reserved. # #Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: #* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. #* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the # documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. #* Neither the name of the JAMF Software, LLC nor the # names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products # derived from this software without specific prior written permission. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY JAMF SOFTWARE, LLC "AS IS" AND ANY # EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED # WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE # DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL JAMF SOFTWARE, LLC BE LIABLE FOR ANY # DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES # (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; # LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND # ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT # (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS # SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # #################################################################################################### # # SUPPORT FOR THIS PROGRAM # # This program is distributed "as is" by JAMF Software, LLC's Resource Kit team. For more #information or support for the Resource Kit, please utilize the following resources: # #http://www.jamfsoftware.com/mailing_lists/ # #http://www.jamfsoftware.com/jamf_nation/resourcekit.php # #Please reference our SLA for information regarding support of this application: # #http://www.jamfsoftware.com/jamf_nation/resourcekit_sla.php # #################################################################################################### # # ABOUT THIS PROGRAM # # NAME #unbindOD.sh -- Unbind from Open Directory. # # SYNOPSIS #sudo unbindOD.sh #sudo unbindOD.sh # # # If the $serverAddress, $username, and $password parameters are specified (parameters 4, 5, and #6), these will be used to unbind the machine from Open Directory. The username/password that #should be used in this script should be an Open Directory user that has permissions to #remove/unbind a machinefrom Open Directory. # # If no parameters are specified for parameters 4, 5, and 6, the hardcoded value in the script #will be used. # # DESCRIPTION #This script will unbind a client machine from an Open Directory domain. #The , , and values 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, fifth, and sixth #parameters ($4, $5, $6) as the passable parameters. # #################################################################################################### # # HISTORY # #Version: 1.0 # #- Created by Nick Amundsen on August 7th, 2008 # #################################################################################################### # # DEFINE VARIABLES & READ IN PARAMETERS # #################################################################################################### # HARDCODED VALUES ARE SET HERE serverAddress="" username="" password="" # CHECK TO SEE IF A VALUE WAS PASSED IN PARAMETER 4 AND, IF SO, ASSIGN TO "serverAddress" if [ "$4" != "" ] && [ "$serverAddress" == "" ]; then serverAddress=$4 fi # CHECK TO SEE IF A VALUE WAS PASSED IN PARAMETER 5 AND, IF SO, ASSIGN TO "username" if [ "$5" != "" ] && [ "$username" == "" ]; then username=$5 fi # CHECK TO SEE IF A VALUE WAS PASSED IN PARAMETER 6 AND, IF SO, ASSIGN TO "password" if [ "$6" != "" ] && [ "$password" == "" ]; then password=$6 fi #################################################################################################### # # SCRIPT CONTENTS - DO NOT MODIFY BELOW THIS LINE # #################################################################################################### if [ "$serverAddress" == "" ]; then echo "Error: No Server Address is specified. A Server Address must be specified to unbind the machine." exit 1 fi if [ "$username" == "" ] && [ "$password" == "" ]; then echo "No username/password is specified. Attempting to unbind without credentials." /usr/sbin/dsconfigldap -r "$serverAddress" fi if [ "$username" != "" ] && [ "$password" == "" ]; then echo "Error: No password is specified. Please specify a network password." exit 1 else echo "Unbinding the computer from Open Directory..." /usr/sbin/dsconfigldap -r "$serverAddress" -u "$username" -p "$password" fi Christopher White Frisco ISD W. Phone: (469) 633-6283 C. Phone: (214) 293-1393 Email: chris.white at friscoisd.org Blog: https://wiki.friscoisd.org/users/chris.white/ This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee) you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender by reply e- mail and delete the message. This email may contain the thoughts and opinions of the employee sending the message and may not represent the official policy of Frisco Independent Schools. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090505/8a666462/attachment.html From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Tue May 5 11:13:28 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 14:13:28 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Capturing ARD custom fields and mapping to the database In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I figured it out :) I called Jamf Support and the ARD custom fields isn't something that jamf binary will grab - you have to use the GUI. So instead, I'll be using the -assetTag option on the jamf binary to take what the user inputted and pass it straight to the jamf binary's -assetTag option instead. Much simpler than mapping the ARD custom field, IMHO. j On 5/5/09 13:35 , "Nichols, Jared" wrote: Hi- So I made an application that prompts the user to enter their computer's asset tag which then sets that value to ARD custom field 1 with defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.RemoteDesktop Text1 466049 In looking in the system preferences/sharing/remote management/computer settings I see that the value was set correctly (466069 in this case). In the JSS, in Admin/Inventory Options/Inventory Preferences, I set ARD Field #1 to map to recon field "Asset Tag." Next I did a sudo jamf recon to see if the asset tag number was picked up and inserted into the JSS and it was not inserted. Am I doing something wrong or does this function just not work the way I'm expecting? I tried it with Remote Management both on and off. j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090505/ef43d25e/attachment.htm From kiorizzo at latinschool.org Wed May 6 07:36:28 2009 From: kiorizzo at latinschool.org (Kathie Iorizzo) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 09:36:28 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Delete items Desktop Message-ID: Hi .. I'm not a script person. I'm looking for a way that on log out all the items are deleted off the desktop. Here is why. Our students connect to a server that is in their dock. Sometimes they accidently grab their folder and drag it to the desktop. This in reference causes the permissions on those folders to be wacky and no one but an admin can delete the folders. Within a week I have 20 gigs of student data copied over to the desktop and I have to manually remove it. The lab monitor is unable to remove it because he does not have admin rights. Last.. is there a way to lock the desktop pattern? From tlarki at kckps.org Wed May 6 08:14:05 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 10:14:05 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Delete items Desktop In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A0162ED.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> For the desktop you can set a user only preference in composer and then push it out to the systems and make it self heal, so that if it is altered it will get it again. You can also look at a log out/in hook that disables that preference. If they are managed via an OS X server you can use Server to manage the group's preference to disallow changes to the desktop background pref pane in system preferences. Do delete all desktop items a simple one liner can work as a log out hook. #!/bin/sh #delete current user's desktop items #WARNING, THIS WILL DELETE EVERYTHING /bin/rm -rf /Users/$3/Desktop/* Please note that the $3 and $4 options only pull the current user in casper from log in/out policies. They also only work if ran by Casper, since the $3 variable means nothing outside of Casper. I think I got it right but I could have $3 and $4 confused. I know one is the current user when parsed by Casper. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Kathie Iorizzo 05/06/09 9:36 AM >>> Hi .. I'm not a script person. I'm looking for a way that on log out all the items are deleted off the desktop. Here is why. Our students connect to a server that is in their dock. Sometimes they accidently grab their folder and drag it to the desktop. This in reference causes the permissions on those folders to be wacky and no one but an admin can delete the folders. Within a week I have 20 gigs of student data copied over to the desktop and I have to manually remove it. The lab monitor is unable to remove it because he does not have admin rights. Last.. is there a way to lock the desktop pattern? _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090506/29952efb/attachment.html From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Wed May 6 08:26:50 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 10:26:50 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Delete items Desktop In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On a nightly bases this is why we actually delete all local user home directories for student lab machines so they get a fresh one with any changes or what not to the skeleton/default user profile. Basically it's a startup item that runs at a schedule time in the wee hours of the morning. Since it is a destructive item must use extreme caution and have measures in place to ensure nothing else happens to other systems NOT suppose to run it. Not sure how well deleting the profile during logout would be...never tried it. Craig E On 5/6/09 9:36 AM, "Kathie Iorizzo" wrote: Hi .. I'm not a script person. I'm looking for a way that on log out all the items are deleted off the desktop. Here is why. Our students connect to a server that is in their dock. Sometimes they accidently grab their folder and drag it to the desktop. This in reference causes the permissions on those folders to be wacky and no one but an admin can delete the folders. Within a week I have 20 gigs of student data copied over to the desktop and I have to manually remove it. The lab monitor is unable to remove it because he does not have admin rights. Last.. is there a way to lock the desktop pattern? _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090506/3dd302c3/attachment.htm From adamshep07 at aol.com Wed May 6 09:13:47 2009 From: adamshep07 at aol.com (adamshep07 at aol.com) Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 12:13:47 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Delete items Desktop In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8CB9C7CC4F0FD1E-12B8-722@WEBMAIL-MY12.sysops.aol.com> Here is a script that you can use to to refresh the account home directory either at login or logout. http://www.bombich.com/mactips/files/scripts/refresh-default-homedir.sh -----Original Message----- From: Ernst, Craig S. To: Kathie Iorizzo ; Casper List Sent: Wed, 6 May 2009 8:26 am Subject: Re: [Casper] Delete items Desktop On a nightly bases this is why we actually delete all local user home directories for student lab machines so they get a fresh one with any changes or what not to the skeleton/default user profile. Basically it?s a startup item that runs at a schedule time in the wee hours of the morning. Since it is a destructive item must use extreme caution and have measures in place to ensure nothing else happens to other systems NOT suppose to run it. Not sure how well deleting the profile during logout would be...never tried it. Craig E On 5/6/09 9:36 AM, "Kathie Iorizzo" <kiorizzo at latinschool.org> wrote: Hi .. I'm not a script person. I'm looking for a way that on log out all the items are deleted off the desktop. ?Here is why. ?Our students connect to a server that is in their dock. ?Sometimes they accidently grab their folder and drag it to the desktop. This in reference causes the permissions on those folders to be wacky and no o ne but an admin can delete the folders. Within a week I have 20 gigs of student data copied over to the desktop and I have to manually remove it. ?The lab monitor is unable to remove it because he does not have admin rights. Last.. is there ?a way to lock the desktop pattern? _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper_______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From moclassen at salesforce.com Thu May 7 11:32:03 2009 From: moclassen at salesforce.com (Matt Oclassen) Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 11:32:03 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user. Message-ID: Hello, I was looking for a command that I could use to verify that a user is logged onto their machine before a policy is run (as opposed to a machine being on, but sitting at the login screen) I want to make sure that they are logged in so they are sure to get the messaging that this policy has run. I am imagining something like the following: If any user is logged in (except for our 2 admin accounts whose name I can specify) Execute jamf policy -trigger "custom trigger" Else quit. Does anyone have an idea on the scripting for this? Thanks very much, Matt Oclassen Desktop Systems Specialist salesforce.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090507/55213653/attachment.html From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Thu May 7 11:43:09 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 13:43:09 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: What exactly are you trying to run? Would it work to run the policy on the login trigger and specify once per user for each machine in the scope? That way it would run when the login trigger was hit for each user on the machine. Just a though, not sure exactly what your end goal is though so it may not be of any help. -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Matt Oclassen Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 1:32 PM To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Subject: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user. Hello, I was looking for a command that I could use to verify that a user is logged onto their machine before a policy is run (as opposed to a machine being on, but sitting at the login screen) I want to make sure that they are logged in so they are sure to get the messaging that this policy has run. I am imagining something like the following: If any user is logged in (except for our 2 admin accounts whose name I can specify) Execute jamf policy -trigger "custom trigger" Else quit. Does anyone have an idea on the scripting for this? Thanks very much, Matt Oclassen Desktop Systems Specialist salesforce.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090507/859cc70a/attachment.html From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Thu May 7 11:50:55 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 13:50:55 -0500 Subject: [Casper] SMART Notebook, Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages In-Reply-To: References: <8849EFC485BBB646A2706F0A1C89A584A45531@DIST-WIN-MAIL-8.cusdnet.org> Message-ID: Bringing back up the SMART topic, I started digging into our packages here and in doing so got talking to our Instructional Technology person who told me that the service pack is due out and has a bunch of changes. I'm thinking about waiting for that to dig into this any further before I re-invent the wheel so to speak. I'm hoping that the new service pack will be more apt to be packaged and deployable at image time. Anyone have an eta on that service pack from SMART by any chance? -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 -----Original Message----- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Gene Anderson Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:28 AM To: Wade, Evan C. Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Subject: Re: [Casper] SMART Notebook, Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages "Wade, Evan C." writes: >Has anyone had any positive results using Casper tools for remote installations of SMART Technologies products? > Positive, no. Successful, sorta. Using ARD and Casper Remote + policies. > > >My district uses SMART Airliners and Senteo classroom response units. The software does not deploy successfully as a DMG built with composer, nor does it deploy correctly if we just add the vendor PKG and MPKG packages to the repository. I had the same result, no Composer snapshots would work and it seemed to be Smart's drivers. I kept getting kernel extension errors. Jamf Support worked with me awhile on this and couldn't get it work. I have no issues with the dozens of apps and packages I deploy. Only Smart's stuff gives me this much greif. One thing I did note is that updates don't work at all, requiring a complete removal of everything before I could reinstall. > >I've been desperate to find a fix for this, because the alternative is having to manually install 700MB worth of applications and clipart on hundreds of systems at dozens of schools. I used Smart's Installer Manager application to bundle NoteBook (along with settings & the licensing key) along with the drivers and any desired gallery settings. It creates a custom PKG which I uploaded into CasperAdmin and push out via a policy or with Casper Remote. The package doesn't want to deploy properly within a configuration snapshot and only installs properly once the machine has been fully imaged and booted. Once the machine is imaged, then I deploy the customized Smart PKG, reboot, install the latest SmartBoard drivers (Smart's own pkg) and custom gallery settings (team content, etc), and one more reboot. From bogus@does.not.exist.com Thu May 7 06:53:56 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 13:53:56 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: much easier for him either. =20 Gene Anderson Systems Analyst, ACTC, MCP Pembina Hills Regional Division No.7 Phone: (780) 674-8535 ext 6860 email: ganderson at phrd.ab.ca "Passwords are like bubble gum, strongest when fresh, should never be used by groups and create a sticky mess when left laying around" -anon _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From kiorizzo at latinschool.org Thu May 7 11:58:56 2009 From: kiorizzo at latinschool.org (Kathie Iorizzo) Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 13:58:56 -0500 Subject: [Casper] SMART Notebook, Drivers and SMART (Senteo) Response Packages In-Reply-To: References: <8849EFC485BBB646A2706F0A1C89A584A45531@DIST-WIN-MAIL-8.cusdnet.org> Message-ID: <7F5F9161-B9EC-40E4-8EAF-6CDF7A88266F@latinschool.org> Dusty We just purchased a few of the SC9 controllers for the multi-touch recognition for the SB 600 series boards. In doing so, I had to install the latest software with SP5. There is a difference in the driver package itself. I will try to package this with Composer and let you know how it deploys. ___________ Kathie Iorizzo Lower School Technician The Latin School of Chicago kiorizzo at latinschool.org 312.582.6136 On May 7, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Dorey, Dustin wrote: > Bringing back up the SMART topic, I started digging into our packages > here and in doing so got talking to our Instructional Technology > person > who told me that the service pack is due out and has a bunch of > changes. > I'm thinking about waiting for that to dig into this any further > before > I re-invent the wheel so to speak. I'm hoping that the new service > pack will be more apt to be packaged and deployable at image time. > Anyone have an eta on that service pack from SMART by any chance? > > -Dusty- > > Dustin Dorey > Technology Support Cluster Specialist > Independant School District 196 > Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools > dustin.dorey at district196.org > 651|423|7971 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Gene > Anderson > Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:28 AM > To: Wade, Evan C. > Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > Subject: Re: [Casper] SMART Notebook, Drivers and SMART (Senteo) > Response Packages > > "Wade, Evan C." writes: >> Has anyone had any positive results using Casper tools for remote > installations of SMART Technologies products? >> > Positive, no. Successful, sorta. Using ARD and Casper Remote + > policies. >> >> >> My district uses SMART Airliners and Senteo classroom response units. > The software does not deploy successfully as a DMG built with > composer, > nor does it deploy correctly if we just add the vendor PKG and MPKG > packages to the repository. > > I had the same result, no Composer snapshots would work and it > seemed to > be Smart's drivers. I kept getting kernel extension errors. Jamf > Support > worked with me awhile on this and couldn't get it work. I have no > issues > with the dozens of apps and packages I deploy. Only Smart's stuff > gives > me this much greif. One thing I did note is that updates don't work at > all, requiring a complete removal of everything before I could > reinstall. >> >> I've been desperate to find a fix for this, because the alternative >> is > having to manually install 700MB worth of applications and clipart on > hundreds of systems at dozens of schools. > > I used Smart's Installer Manager application to bundle NoteBook (along > with settings & the licensing key) along with the drivers and any > desired gallery settings. It creates a custom PKG which I uploaded > into > CasperAdmin and push out via a policy or with Casper Remote. The > package > doesn't want to deploy properly within a configuration snapshot and > only > installs properly once the machine has been fully imaged and booted. > Once the machine is imaged, then I deploy the customized Smart PKG, > reboot, > install the latest SmartBoard drivers (Smart's own pkg) and custom > gallery settings (team content, etc), and one more reboot. > > From what I've heard from our senior Windows guy, Smart's software > isn't > much easier for him either. > > > Gene Anderson > Systems Analyst, ACTC, MCP > Pembina Hills Regional Division No.7 > Phone: (780) 674-8535 ext 6860 > email: ganderson at phrd.ab.ca > > "Passwords are like bubble gum, strongest when fresh, should never be > used by groups and create a sticky mess when left laying around" > > -anon > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From tlarki at kckps.org Thu May 7 12:03:18 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 14:03:18 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A02EA26.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Are these accounts local or part of a directory? This could be easily done a few different ways. First and foremost I suggest anyone who manages Macs to keep their local admin accounts hidden, in like /private/var for example. That way it keeps them out of the /Users directory. Then all of your policies in place for your managed users can loop through the /users directory. Since the admin accounts won't be there you won't loop them out at all. I kind of just came up with a quick way to do this, probably not that efficient and someone who is a better script writer may want to try it. #!/bin/bash #get current user logged in current_user=finger -lp | grep Directory | cut -c 19-40 #now loop through users for i in `ls /Users` do if [[ $i == $current_user ]] then jamf policy -trigger MyPolicy else echo "not in /Users" fi exit done This was written very quick and you may want to write it a better way. That is where I would start though. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Matt Oclassen 05/07/09 1:32 PM >>> Hello, I was looking for a command that I could use to verify that a user is logged onto their machine before a policy is run (as opposed to a machine being on, but sitting at the login screen) I want to make sure that they are logged in so they are sure to get the messaging that this policy has run. I am imagining something like the following: If any user is logged in (except for our 2 admin accounts whose name I can specify) Execute jamf policy ?trigger ?custom trigger? Else quit. Does anyone have an idea on the scripting for this? Thanks very much, Matt Oclassen Desktop Systems Specialist sales force.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090507/aef74c58/attachment.html From DHowell at austinisd.org Thu May 7 13:32:07 2009 From: DHowell at austinisd.org (DHowell at austinisd.org) Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 15:32:07 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user. In-Reply-To: <4A02EA26.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: I found this one to work the best for me username=`/usr/bin/w | grep console | awk '{print $1}'` than using variable like this /Users/$username/ D. Trey Howell trey.howell at austinisd.org Desktop Engineering This email message, including all attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential student and/or employee information. Unauthorized use of disclosure is prohibited under the federal Family Education Rights & Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. ?1232g, 34 CFR Part 99, 19 TAC 247.2, Gov’, t Code 552.023, Educ. Code 21.355, 29 CFR 1630.14(b)(c)). If you are not the intended recipient, you may not use, disclose, copy or disseminate this information. Please call the sender immediately or reply by email and destroy all copies of the original message, including attachments. "Thomas Larkin" Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com 05/07/09 02:03 PM To "casper at list.jamfsoftware.com" , "Matt Oclassen" cc Subject Re: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user. Are these accounts local or part of a directory? This could be easily done a few different ways. First and foremost I suggest anyone who manages Macs to keep their local admin accounts hidden, in like /private/var for example. That way it keeps them out of the /Users directory. Then all of your policies in place for your managed users can loop through the /users directory. Since the admin accounts won't be there you won't loop them out at all. I kind of just came up with a quick way to do this, probably not that efficient and someone who is a better script writer may want to try it. #!/bin/bash #get current user logged in current_user=finger -lp | grep Directory | cut -c 19-40 #now loop through users for i in `ls /Users` do if [[ $i == $current_user ]] then jamf policy -trigger MyPolicy else echo "not in /Users" fi exit done This was written very quick and you may want to write it a better way. That is where I would start though. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Matt Oclassen 05/07/09 1:32 PM >>> Hello, I was looking for a command that I could use to verify that a user is logged onto their machine before a policy is run (as opposed to a machine being on, but sitting at the login screen) I want to make sure that they are logged in so they are sure to get the messaging that this policy has run. I am imagining something like the following: If any user is logged in (except for our 2 admin accounts whose name I can specify) Execute jamf policy ?trigger ?custom trigger? Else quit. Does anyone have an idea on the scripting for this? Thanks very much, Matt Oclassen Desktop Systems Specialist sales force.com _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090507/3295fba4/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 2778 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090507/3295fba4/attachment.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 2788 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090507/3295fba4/attachment-0001.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 2834 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090507/3295fba4/attachment-0002.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 2861 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090507/3295fba4/attachment-0003.jpe From cmyers at uclan.ac.uk Thu May 7 13:50:23 2009 From: cmyers at uclan.ac.uk (Criss Myers) Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 21:50:23 +0100 Subject: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi chaps Sorry if this doesn't sound right but this us what I do, if have a policy that runs at night time only every 30mins which shutsdown a mac if no one is logged in For me it was simple, when a user logs in a login hook touchs /Library/Login/loggedinuser. Then when they logout it removed the file My policy then checks if that file exists , if so is exits, if not it shutsdown. To me that seemed the simplist, as I can reuse that log file for abu script, much easier that checking directories and users folders Criss On 7 May 2009, at 21:32, DHowell at austinisd.org wrote: > > I found this one to work the best for me > > username=`/usr/bin/w | grep console | awk '{print $1}'` > > > than using variable like this /Users/$username/ > > > > > D. Trey Howell > trey.howell at austinisd.org > > Desktop Engineering > > attachment.jpg> > > This email message, including all attachments, is for the sole use > of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential student > and/or employee information. Unauthorized use of disclosure is > prohibited under the federal Family Education Rights & Privacy Act > (20 U.S.C. ?1232g, 34 CFR Part 99, 19 TAC 247.2, Gov’, t Code 5 > 52.023, Educ. Code 21.355, 29 CFR 1630.14(b)(c)). If you are not th > e intended recipient, you may not use, disclose, copy or disseminate > this information. Please call the sender immediately or reply by e > mail and destroy all copies of the original message, including attac > hments. > > > > > > "Thomas Larkin" > > Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > 05/07/09 02:03 PM > > To > "casper at list.jamfsoftware.com" , "Matt > Oclassen" > cc > Subject > Re: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user. > > > > > > Are these accounts local or part of a directory? > > This could be easily done a few different ways. First and foremost > I suggest anyone who manages Macs to keep their local admin accounts > hidden, in like /private/var for example. That way it keeps them > out of the /Users directory. Then all of your policies in place for > your managed users can loop through the /users directory. Since the > admin accounts won't be there you won't loop them out at all. > > I kind of just came up with a quick way to do this, probably not > that efficient and someone who is a better script writer may want to > try it. > > > #!/bin/bash > > > #get current user logged in > > > current_user=finger -lp | grep Directory | cut -c 19-40 > > > #now loop through users > > > for i in `ls /Users` > > > do > > > if [[ $i == $current_user ]] > > > then jamf policy -trigger MyPolicy > > > else echo "not in /Users" > > > fi > > > exit > done > > > This was written very quick and you may want to write it a better > way. That is where I would start though. > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> Matt Oclassen 05/07/09 1:32 PM >>> > Hello, > > I was looking for a command that I could use to verify that a user > is logged onto their machine before a policy is run (as opposed to a > machine being on, but sitting at the login screen) > > I want to make sure that they are logged in so they are sure to get > the messaging that this policy has run. > > I am imagining something like the following: > > If any user is logged in (except for our 2 admin accounts whose name > I can specify) > > Execute jamf policy ?trigger ?custom trigger? > > Else quit. > > Does anyone have an idea on the scripting for this? > > Thanks very much, > Matt Oclassen > > Desktop Systems Specialist > sales > force.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090507/af6ad5cd/attachment.htm From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Fri May 8 05:47:48 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 08:47:48 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Perhaps this would be better in this case? ## Set a variable that takes the output of the current console owner and cut the result down user=`ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4` I haven't tried it, but I would think that if nobody's logged in, /dev/console will be owned by either nobody or root. j On 5/7/09 16:50 , "Criss Myers" wrote: Hi chaps Sorry if this doesn't sound right but this us what I do, if have a policy that runs at night time only every 30mins which shutsdown a mac if no one is logged in For me it was simple, when a user logs in a login hook touchs /Library/Login/loggedinuser. Then when they logout it removed the file My policy then checks if that file exists , if so is exits, if not it shutsdown. To me that seemed the simplist, as I can reuse that log file for abu script, much easier that checking directories and users folders Criss On 7 May 2009, at 21:32, DHowell at austinisd.org wrote: I found this one to work the best for me username=`/usr/bin/w | grep console | awk '{print $1}'` than using variable like this /Users/$username/ D. Trey Howell trey.howell at austinisd.org Desktop Engineering This email message, including all attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential student and/or employee information. Unauthorized use of disclosure is prohibited under the federal Family Education Rights & Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. ?1232g, 34 CFR Part 99, 19 TAC 247.2, Gov’, t Code 552.023, Educ. Code 21.355, 29 CFR 1630.14(b)(c)). If you are not the intended recipient, you may not use, disclose, copy or disseminate this information. Please call the sender immediately or reply by email and destroy all copies of the original message, including attachments. "Thomas Larkin" Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com 05/07/09 02:03 PM To "casper at list.jamfsoftware.com" , "Matt Oclassen" cc Subject Re: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user. Are these accounts local or part of a directory? This could be easily done a few different ways. First and foremost I suggest anyone who manages Macs to keep their local admin accounts hidden, in like /private/var for example. That way it keeps them out of the /Users directory. Then all of your policies in place for your managed users can loop through the /users directory. Since the admin accounts won't be there you won't loop them out at all. I kind of just came up with a quick way to do this, probably not that efficient and someone who is a better script writer may want to try it. #!/bin/bash #get current user logged in current_user=finger -lp | grep Directory | cut -c 19-40 #now loop through users for i in `ls /Users` do if [[ $i == $current_user ]] then jamf policy -trigger MyPolicy else echo "not in /Users" fi exit done This was written very quick and you may want to write it a better way. That is where I would start though. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Matt Oclassen 05/07/09 1:32 PM >>> Hello, I was looking for a command that I could use to verify that a user is logged onto their machine before a policy is run (as opposed to a machine being on, but sitting at the login screen) I want to make sure that they are logged in so they are sure to get the messaging that this policy has run. I am imagining something like the following: If any user is logged in (except for our 2 admin accounts whose name I can specify) Execute jamf policy -trigger "custom trigger" Else quit. Does anyone have an idea on the scripting for this? Thanks very much, Matt Oclassen Desktop Systems Specialist sales force.com _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090508/ac43e34c/attachment.html From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Fri May 8 05:47:48 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 08:47:48 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Perhaps this would be better in this case? ## Set a variable that takes the output of the current console owner and cut the result down user=`ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4` I haven't tried it, but I would think that if nobody's logged in, /dev/console will be owned by either nobody or root. j On 5/7/09 16:50 , "Criss Myers" wrote: Hi chaps Sorry if this doesn't sound right but this us what I do, if have a policy that runs at night time only every 30mins which shutsdown a mac if no one is logged in For me it was simple, when a user logs in a login hook touchs /Library/Login/loggedinuser. Then when they logout it removed the file My policy then checks if that file exists , if so is exits, if not it shutsdown. To me that seemed the simplist, as I can reuse that log file for abu script, much easier that checking directories and users folders Criss On 7 May 2009, at 21:32, DHowell at austinisd.org wrote: I found this one to work the best for me username=`/usr/bin/w | grep console | awk '{print $1}'` than using variable like this /Users/$username/ D. Trey Howell trey.howell at austinisd.org Desktop Engineering This email message, including all attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential student and/or employee information. Unauthorized use of disclosure is prohibited under the federal Family Education Rights & Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. ?1232g, 34 CFR Part 99, 19 TAC 247.2, Gov’, t Code 552.023, Educ. Code 21.355, 29 CFR 1630.14(b)(c)). If you are not the intended recipient, you may not use, disclose, copy or disseminate this information. Please call the sender immediately or reply by email and destroy all copies of the original message, including attachments. "Thomas Larkin" Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com 05/07/09 02:03 PM To "casper at list.jamfsoftware.com" , "Matt Oclassen" cc Subject Re: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user. Are these accounts local or part of a directory? This could be easily done a few different ways. First and foremost I suggest anyone who manages Macs to keep their local admin accounts hidden, in like /private/var for example. That way it keeps them out of the /Users directory. Then all of your policies in place for your managed users can loop through the /users directory. Since the admin accounts won't be there you won't loop them out at all. I kind of just came up with a quick way to do this, probably not that efficient and someone who is a better script writer may want to try it. #!/bin/bash #get current user logged in current_user=finger -lp | grep Directory | cut -c 19-40 #now loop through users for i in `ls /Users` do if [[ $i == $current_user ]] then jamf policy -trigger MyPolicy else echo "not in /Users" fi exit done This was written very quick and you may want to write it a better way. That is where I would start though. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Matt Oclassen 05/07/09 1:32 PM >>> Hello, I was looking for a command that I could use to verify that a user is logged onto their machine before a policy is run (as opposed to a machine being on, but sitting at the login screen) I want to make sure that they are logged in so they are sure to get the messaging that this policy has run. I am imagining something like the following: If any user is logged in (except for our 2 admin accounts whose name I can specify) Execute jamf policy -trigger "custom trigger" Else quit. Does anyone have an idea on the scripting for this? Thanks very much, Matt Oclassen Desktop Systems Specialist sales force.com _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090508/ac43e34c/attachment.htm From rcorbin at mac.com Fri May 8 08:03:33 2009 From: rcorbin at mac.com (Roger Corbin) Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 11:03:33 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned Machines In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8E8D13FB-C435-42BC-8A11-83C044DAB9EA@mac.com> More and more Casper is also becoming a tool to track all of our computer assets. Eventually a computer gets too old for us to use or is deemed not repairable. In our old inventory system (Which we are still running simultaneously as well.) we can change the classification of these machines to "decommissioned". For accounting, historical and work order purposes we track those machines for a time even after they are sent off to recycling. It would be great if Casper had some sort of classification for this so that you could leave it in inventory but not take up a license (managed or unmanaged.) I'm not sure how practical this would be, but it would be handy for us. These decommissioned assets would not need much information on them. Just asset number, make and model and serial number. Maybe some date information. Just bare bones basics. I'm not sure if this is something anyone else would use or not but it would be very handy for us. From tlarki at kckps.org Fri May 8 09:01:25 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 11:01:25 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned Machines In-Reply-To: <8E8D13FB-C435-42BC-8A11-83C044DAB9EA@mac.com> References: <8E8D13FB-C435-42BC-8A11-83C044DAB9EA@mac.com> Message-ID: <4A041105.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> One thing we do for stolen equipment is add the word _STOLEN at the end of the computer name in the JSS database. Then we create a smart group based on the name. That is how we track it, you could maybe do something similar. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Roger Corbin 05/08/09 10:03 AM >>> More and more Casper is also becoming a tool to track all of our computer assets. Eventually a computer gets too old for us to use or is deemed not repairable. In our old inventory system (Which we are still running simultaneously as well.) we can change the classification of these machines to "decommissioned". For accounting, historical and work order purposes we track those machines for a time even after they are sent off to recycling. It would be great if Casper had some sort of classification for this so that you could leave it in inventory but not take up a license (managed or unmanaged.) I'm not sure how practical this would be, but it would be handy for us. These decommissioned assets would not need much information on them. Just asset number, make and model and serial number. Maybe some date information. Just bare bones basics. I'm not sure if this is something anyone else would use or not but it would be very handy for us. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090508/722fed16/attachment.html From moclassen at salesforce.com Fri May 8 09:56:20 2009 From: moclassen at salesforce.com (Matt Oclassen) Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 09:56:20 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks all for the suggestions everyone. Much appreciated! I should be good to go. On 5/8/09 5:47 AM, "Nichols, Jared" wrote: Perhaps this would be better in this case? ## Set a variable that takes the output of the current console owner and cut the result down user=`ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4` I haven't tried it, but I would think that if nobody's logged in, /dev/console will be owned by either nobody or root. j On 5/7/09 16:50 , "Criss Myers" wrote: Hi chaps Sorry if this doesn't sound right but this us what I do, if have a policy that runs at night time only every 30mins which shutsdown a mac if no one is logged in For me it was simple, when a user logs in a login hook touchs /Library/Login/loggedinuser. Then when they logout it removed the file My policy then checks if that file exists , if so is exits, if not it shutsdown. To me that seemed the simplist, as I can reuse that log file for abu script, much easier that checking directories and users folders Criss On 7 May 2009, at 21:32, DHowell at austinisd.org wrote: I found this one to work the best for me username=`/usr/bin/w | grep console | awk '{print $1}'` than using variable like this /Users/$username/ D. Trey Howell trey.howell at austinisd.org Desktop Engineering This email message, including all attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential student and/or employee information. Unauthorized use of disclosure is prohibited under the federal Family Education Rights & Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. ?1232g, 34 CFR Part 99, 19 TAC 247.2, Gov’, t Code 552.023, Educ. Code 21.355, 29 CFR 1630.14(b)(c)). If you are not the intended recipient, you may not use, disclose, copy or disseminate this information. Please call the sender immediately or reply by email and destroy all copies of the original message, including attachments. "Thomas Larkin" Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com 05/07/09 02:03 PM To "casper at list.jamfsoftware.com" , "Matt Oclassen" cc Subject Re: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user. Are these accounts local or part of a directory? This could be easily done a few different ways. First and foremost I suggest anyone who manages Macs to keep their local admin accounts hidden, in like /private/var for example. That way it keeps them out of the /Users directory. Then all of your policies in place for your managed users can loop through the /users directory. Since the admin accounts won't be there you won't loop them out at all. I kind of just came up with a quick way to do this, probably not that efficient and someone who is a better script writer may want to try it. #!/bin/bash #get current user logged in current_user=finger -lp | grep Directory | cut -c 19-40 #now loop through users for i in `ls /Users` do if [[ $i == $current_user ]] then jamf policy -trigger MyPolicy else echo "not in /Users" fi exit done This was written very quick and you may want to write it a better way. That is where I would start though. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Matt Oclassen 05/07/09 1:32 PM >>> Hello, I was looking for a command that I could use to verify that a user is logged onto their machine before a policy is run (as opposed to a machine being on, but sitting at the login screen) I want to make sure that they are logged in so they are sure to get the messaging that this policy has run. I am imagining something like the following: If any user is logged in (except for our 2 admin accounts whose name I can specify) Execute jamf policy -trigger "custom trigger" Else quit. Does anyone have an idea on the scripting for this? Thanks very much, Matt Oclassen Desktop Systems Specialist sales force.com _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090508/4f3ebf43/attachment.html From rcorbin at mac.com Fri May 8 11:16:35 2009 From: rcorbin at mac.com (Roger Corbin) Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 14:16:35 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned Machines In-Reply-To: <4A041105.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <8E8D13FB-C435-42BC-8A11-83C044DAB9EA@mac.com> <4A041105.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: But then isn't that stolen machine still taking up a managed or unmanaged license ? This is another example of a thing we would do as well. We are a large school district and over the years these stolen or decommissioned machines can add up. Taking up managed or unmanaged licenses in Casper. Perhaps Jamf can still charge us for these licenses, but at a lower rate. On May 8, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote: > One thing we do for stolen equipment is add the word _STOLEN at the > end of the computer name in the JSS database. Then we create a > smart group based on the name. That is how we track it, you could > maybe do something similar. > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> Roger Corbin 05/08/09 10:03 AM >>> > More and more Casper is also becoming a tool to track all of our > computer assets. Eventually a computer gets too old for us to use or > is deemed not repairable. In our old inventory system (Which we are > still running simultaneously as well.) we can change the > classification of these machines to "decommissioned". For > accounting, historical and work order purposes we track those machines > for a time even after they are sent off to recycling. It would be > great if Casper had some sort of classification for this so that you > could leave it in inventory but not take up a license (managed or > unmanaged.) I'm not sure how practical this would be, but it would be > handy for us. These decommissioned assets would not need much > information on them. Just asset number, make and model and serial > number. Maybe some date information. Just bare bones basics. I'm not > sure if this is something anyone else would use or not but it would be > very handy for us. > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090508/462aa44a/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Fri May 8 11:42:57 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 13:42:57 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned Machines In-Reply-To: References: <8E8D13FB-C435-42BC-8A11-83C044DAB9EA@mac.com> <4A041105.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <4A0436E1.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> I may need to read the fine print of the EULA with Casper or perhaps contact their legal department but if the client machine is not in use how can it be taking up a license? If you decommission a machine and toss it in storage, its not in use at all so how can it feasibly be using a license? I don't know the ins and outs of how exactly the license works but I would contact Jamf and ask them, and then let us know so we all know. Thanks Tom ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Roger Corbin 05/08/09 1:16 PM >>> But then isn't that stolen machine still taking up a managed or unmanaged license ? This is another example of a thing we would do as well. We are a large school district and over the years these stolen or decommissioned machines can add up. Taking up managed or unmanaged licenses in Casper. Perhaps Jamf can still charge us for these licenses, but at a lower rate. On May 8, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote: One thing we do for stolen equipment is add the word _STOLEN at the end of the computer name in the JSS database. Then we create a smart group based on the name. That is how we track it, you could maybe do something similar. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Roger Corbin 05/08/09 10:03 AM >>> More and more Casper is also becoming a tool to track all of our computer assets. Eventually a computer gets too old for us to use or is deemed not repairable. In our old inventory system (Which we are still running simultaneously as well.) we can change the classification of these machines to "decommissioned". For accounting, historical and work order purposes we track those machines for a time even after they are sent off to recycling. It would be great if Casper had some sort of classification for this so that you could leave it in inventory but not take up a license (managed or unmanaged.) I'm not sure how practical this would be, but it would be handy for us. These decommissioned assets would not need much information on them. Just asset number, make and model and serial number. Maybe some date information. Just bare bones basics. I'm not sure if this is something anyone else would use or not but it would be very handy for us. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090508/ef08def1/attachment.htm From adamshep07 at aol.com Fri May 8 11:51:10 2009 From: adamshep07 at aol.com (adamshep07 at aol.com) Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 14:51:10 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned Machines In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8CB9E251612084E-14C0-1098@webmail-db18.sysops.aol.com> I think a solution could be to change "Ensure this computer is managed" from a check box to a drop down with managed and unmanaged as options as well as to add "Stolen", "Parted Out" (We salvage broken off warranty computers to repair other computers), Decommissioned or any other possible options. -----Original Message----- From: Roger Corbin To: Thomas Larkin Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Sent: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:16 am Subject: Re: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned Machines But then isn't that stolen machine still taking up a managed or?unmanaged?license ? This is another example of a thing we would do as well.?We are a large school district and over the years these stolen or decommissioned machines can add up. Taking up managed or unmanagedlicenses in Casper. Perhaps Jamf can still charge us for these licenses, but at a lower rate.? On May 8, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote:One thing we do for stolen equipment is add the word _STOLEN at the end of the computer name in the JSS database. ?Then we create a smart group based on the name. ?That is how we track it, you could maybe do something similar. ___________________________ Thomas?Larkin TIS?Department KCKPS?USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry:??913-449-7589 office:??913-627-0351 >>> Roger Corbin <rcorbin at mac.com> 05/08/09 10:03 AM >>> More and more Casper is also becoming a tool to track all of our? computer assets.??Eventually a computer gets too old for us to use or? is deemed not repairable.??In our old inventory system (Which we are? still running simultaneously as well.) we can change the? classification of these machines to "decommissioned".???For? accounting, historical and work order purposes we track those machines? for a time even after they are sent off to recycling. It would be? great if Casper had some sort of classification for this so that you? could leave it in inventory but not take up a license (managed or? unmanaged.) I'm not sure how practical this would be, but it would be? handy for us. These decommissioned assets would not need much? information on them.??Just asset number, make and model and serial? number. Maybe some date information. Just bare bones basics. I'm not? sure if this is something anyone else would use or not but it would be? very handy for us. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper =_______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From rcorbin at mac.com Fri May 8 12:02:21 2009 From: rcorbin at mac.com (Roger Corbin) Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 15:02:21 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned Machines In-Reply-To: <8CB9E251612084E-14C0-1098@webmail-db18.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CB9E251612084E-14C0-1098@webmail-db18.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <1D83DFB8-AE51-4B50-8678-2B0AEAC952F0@mac.com> That's exactly what we would like to see. And either no license fee (or a very discounted) one for those machines labeled as stolen, parted out, or decommissioned. On May 8, 2009, at 2:51 PM, adamshep07 at aol.com wrote: > I think a solution could be to change "Ensure this computer is > managed" > from a check box to a drop down with managed and unmanaged as options > as well as to add "Stolen", "Parted Out" (We salvage broken off > warranty computers to repair other computers), Decommissioned or any > other possible options. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roger Corbin > To: Thomas Larkin > Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > Sent: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:16 am > Subject: Re: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned > Machines > > But then isn't that stolen machine still taking up a managed > or unmanaged license ? This is another example of a thing we would do > as well. We are a large school district and over the years these > stolen > or decommissioned machines can add up. Taking up managed or > unmanagedlicenses in Casper. Perhaps Jamf can still charge us for > these > licenses, but at a lower rate. > On May 8, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote:One thing we do for > stolen equipment is add the word _STOLEN at the end of the computer > name in the JSS database. Then we create a smart group based on the > name. That is how we track it, you could maybe do something similar. > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> Roger Corbin <rcorbin at mac.com> 05/08/09 > 10:03 AM > >>> > More and more Casper is also becoming a tool to track all of our > computer assets. Eventually a computer gets too old for us to use or > is deemed not repairable. In our old inventory system (Which we are > still running simultaneously as well.) we can change the > classification of these machines to "decommissioned". For > accounting, historical and work order purposes we track those machines > for a time even after they are sent off to recycling. It would be > great if Casper had some sort of classification for this so that you > could leave it in inventory but not take up a license (managed or > unmanaged.) I'm not sure how practical this would be, but it would be > handy for us. These decommissioned assets would not need much > information on them. Just asset number, make and model and serial > number. Maybe some date information. Just bare bones basics. I'm not > sure if this is something anyone else would use or not but it would be > very handy for us. > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > =_______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > From josh at jamfsoftware.com Fri May 8 12:19:24 2009 From: josh at jamfsoftware.com (Joshua Holland) Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 14:19:24 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned Machines In-Reply-To: <1D83DFB8-AE51-4B50-8678-2B0AEAC952F0@mac.com> References: <8CB9E251612084E-14C0-1098@webmail-db18.sysops.aol.com> <1D83DFB8-AE51-4B50-8678-2B0AEAC952F0@mac.com> Message-ID: Hello all, Just to clarify the point, unmanaged Macs will not count as a licensed seat. If you edit the record for a decommissioned Mac, and remove the Management Username and Management Password (and uncheck Ensure this computer is managed), it will be considered unmanaged, and not show up in a search for managed computers. You can also create a building, department etc called Decommissioned (or something to that effect) and assign it to those machines to easily find them or create a Smart Group in the JSS. Thanks, Josh ........................................................ Joshua Holland Sr. Systems Engineer ........................................................ JAMF Software 1011 Washington Ave S. #350 Minneapolis, MN 55415 ........................................................ Office (612) 605-6625 Fax (612) 332-9054 ........................................................ http://www.jamfsoftware.com On May 8, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Roger Corbin wrote: > That's exactly what we would like to see. And either no license fee > (or a very discounted) > one for those machines labeled as stolen, parted out, or > decommissioned. > > On May 8, 2009, at 2:51 PM, adamshep07 at aol.com wrote: > >> I think a solution could be to change "Ensure this computer is >> managed" >> from a check box to a drop down with managed and unmanaged as options >> as well as to add "Stolen", "Parted Out" (We salvage broken off >> warranty computers to repair other computers), Decommissioned or any >> other possible options. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Roger Corbin >> To: Thomas Larkin >> Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> Sent: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:16 am >> Subject: Re: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned >> Machines >> >> But then isn't that stolen machine still taking up a managed >> or unmanaged license ? This is another example of a thing we would do >> as well. We are a large school district and over the years these >> stolen >> or decommissioned machines can add up. Taking up managed or >> unmanagedlicenses in Casper. Perhaps Jamf can still charge us for >> these >> licenses, but at a lower rate. >> On May 8, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote:One thing we do for >> stolen equipment is add the word _STOLEN at the end of the computer >> name in the JSS database. Then we create a smart group based on the >> name. That is how we track it, you could maybe do something similar. >> >> >> ___________________________ >> Thomas Larkin >> TIS Department >> KCKPS USD500 >> tlarki at kckps.org >> blackberry: 913-449-7589 >> office: 913-627-0351 >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> Roger Corbin <rcorbin at mac.com> 05/08/09 >> 10:03 AM >> >>> >> More and more Casper is also becoming a tool to track all of our >> computer assets. Eventually a computer gets too old for us to use or >> is deemed not repairable. In our old inventory system (Which we are >> still running simultaneously as well.) we can change the >> classification of these machines to "decommissioned". For >> accounting, historical and work order purposes we track those >> machines >> for a time even after they are sent off to recycling. It would be >> great if Casper had some sort of classification for this so that you >> could leave it in inventory but not take up a license (managed or >> unmanaged.) I'm not sure how practical this would be, but it would be >> handy for us. These decommissioned assets would not need much >> information on them. Just asset number, make and model and serial >> number. Maybe some date information. Just bare bones basics. I'm not >> sure if this is something anyone else would use or not but it would >> be >> very handy for us. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Casper mailing list >> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >> >> =_______________________________________________ >> Casper mailing list >> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From julius.wilpon at pearson.com Fri May 8 12:28:28 2009 From: julius.wilpon at pearson.com (Julius Wilpon) Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 15:28:28 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned Machines In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Would the software inventory from those assets show up in audits? Or are they segmented off? Thanks, Julius Julius Wilpon Director, Technology Support Pearson | Architecture, Engineering & Support 1 Lake Street Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 201-236-7817 office 201-574-6930 cell Julius.wilpon at pearson.com P Pearson is Green. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. > From: Josh Holland > Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 14:19:24 -0500 > To: > Subject: Re: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned Machines > > Hello all, > > Just to clarify the point, unmanaged Macs will not count as a licensed > seat. If you edit the record for a decommissioned Mac, and remove the > Management Username and Management Password (and uncheck Ensure this > computer is managed), it will be considered unmanaged, and not show up > in a search for managed computers. > > You can also create a building, department etc called Decommissioned > (or something to that effect) and assign it to those machines to > easily find them or create a Smart Group in the JSS. > > Thanks, > > > Josh > > > ........................................................ > Joshua Holland > Sr. Systems Engineer > ........................................................ > JAMF Software > 1011 Washington Ave S. #350 > Minneapolis, MN 55415 > ........................................................ > Office (612) 605-6625 > Fax (612) 332-9054 > ........................................................ > http://www.jamfsoftware.com > > > > On May 8, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Roger Corbin wrote: > >> That's exactly what we would like to see. And either no license fee >> (or a very discounted) >> one for those machines labeled as stolen, parted out, or >> decommissioned. >> >> On May 8, 2009, at 2:51 PM, adamshep07 at aol.com wrote: >> >>> I think a solution could be to change "Ensure this computer is >>> managed" >>> from a check box to a drop down with managed and unmanaged as options >>> as well as to add "Stolen", "Parted Out" (We salvage broken off >>> warranty computers to repair other computers), Decommissioned or any >>> other possible options. >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Roger Corbin >>> To: Thomas Larkin >>> Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >>> Sent: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:16 am >>> Subject: Re: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned >>> Machines >>> >>> But then isn't that stolen machine still taking up a managed >>> or unmanaged license ? This is another example of a thing we would do >>> as well. We are a large school district and over the years these >>> stolen >>> or decommissioned machines can add up. Taking up managed or >>> unmanagedlicenses in Casper. Perhaps Jamf can still charge us for >>> these >>> licenses, but at a lower rate. >>> On May 8, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote:One thing we do for >>> stolen equipment is add the word _STOLEN at the end of the computer >>> name in the JSS database. Then we create a smart group based on the >>> name. That is how we track it, you could maybe do something similar. >>> >>> >>> ___________________________ >>> Thomas Larkin >>> TIS Department >>> KCKPS USD500 >>> tlarki at kckps.org >>> blackberry: 913-449-7589 >>> office: 913-627-0351 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Roger Corbin <rcorbin at mac.com> 05/08/09 >>> 10:03 AM >>> >>> >>> More and more Casper is also becoming a tool to track all of our >>> computer assets. Eventually a computer gets too old for us to use or >>> is deemed not repairable. In our old inventory system (Which we are >>> still running simultaneously as well.) we can change the >>> classification of these machines to "decommissioned". For >>> accounting, historical and work order purposes we track those >>> machines >>> for a time even after they are sent off to recycling. It would be >>> great if Casper had some sort of classification for this so that you >>> could leave it in inventory but not take up a license (managed or >>> unmanaged.) I'm not sure how practical this would be, but it would be >>> handy for us. These decommissioned assets would not need much >>> information on them. Just asset number, make and model and serial >>> number. Maybe some date information. Just bare bones basics. I'm not >>> sure if this is something anyone else would use or not but it would >>> be >>> very handy for us. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Casper mailing list >>> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >>> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >>> >>> =_______________________________________________ >>> Casper mailing list >>> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >>> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Casper mailing list >> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090508/ee0b0faa/attachment.htm From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Fri May 8 12:52:26 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 14:52:26 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned Machines In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I was under the impression that although the system still shows up as unmanaged, it still counts against your seats. Your Total Computers on the Admin tab -> Activation Code tab. Is there some separation between managing systems and what you license and what you inventory (recon?) Craig E On 5/8/09 2:19 PM, "Joshua Holland" wrote: Hello all, Just to clarify the point, unmanaged Macs will not count as a licensed seat. If you edit the record for a decommissioned Mac, and remove the Management Username and Management Password (and uncheck Ensure this computer is managed), it will be considered unmanaged, and not show up in a search for managed computers. You can also create a building, department etc called Decommissioned (or something to that effect) and assign it to those machines to easily find them or create a Smart Group in the JSS. Thanks, Josh ........................................................ Joshua Holland Sr. Systems Engineer ........................................................ JAMF Software 1011 Washington Ave S. #350 Minneapolis, MN 55415 ........................................................ Office (612) 605-6625 Fax (612) 332-9054 ........................................................ http://www.jamfsoftware.com On May 8, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Roger Corbin wrote: > That's exactly what we would like to see. And either no license fee > (or a very discounted) > one for those machines labeled as stolen, parted out, or > decommissioned. > > On May 8, 2009, at 2:51 PM, adamshep07 at aol.com wrote: > >> I think a solution could be to change "Ensure this computer is >> managed" >> from a check box to a drop down with managed and unmanaged as options >> as well as to add "Stolen", "Parted Out" (We salvage broken off >> warranty computers to repair other computers), Decommissioned or any >> other possible options. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Roger Corbin >> To: Thomas Larkin >> Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> Sent: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:16 am >> Subject: Re: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned >> Machines >> >> But then isn't that stolen machine still taking up a managed >> or unmanaged license ? This is another example of a thing we would do >> as well. We are a large school district and over the years these >> stolen >> or decommissioned machines can add up. Taking up managed or >> unmanagedlicenses in Casper. Perhaps Jamf can still charge us for >> these >> licenses, but at a lower rate. >> On May 8, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote:One thing we do for >> stolen equipment is add the word _STOLEN at the end of the computer >> name in the JSS database. Then we create a smart group based on the >> name. That is how we track it, you could maybe do something similar. >> >> >> ___________________________ >> Thomas Larkin >> TIS Department >> KCKPS USD500 >> tlarki at kckps.org >> blackberry: 913-449-7589 >> office: 913-627-0351 >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> Roger Corbin <rcorbin at mac.com> 05/08/09 >> 10:03 AM >> >>> >> More and more Casper is also becoming a tool to track all of our >> computer assets. Eventually a computer gets too old for us to use or >> is deemed not repairable. In our old inventory system (Which we are >> still running simultaneously as well.) we can change the >> classification of these machines to "decommissioned". For >> accounting, historical and work order purposes we track those >> machines >> for a time even after they are sent off to recycling. It would be >> great if Casper had some sort of classification for this so that you >> could leave it in inventory but not take up a license (managed or >> unmanaged.) I'm not sure how practical this would be, but it would be >> handy for us. These decommissioned assets would not need much >> information on them. Just asset number, make and model and serial >> number. Maybe some date information. Just bare bones basics. I'm not >> sure if this is something anyone else would use or not but it would >> be >> very handy for us. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Casper mailing list >> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >> >> =_______________________________________________ >> Casper mailing list >> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090508/efec2038/attachment.html From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Mon May 11 07:07:29 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 10:07:29 -0400 Subject: [Casper] self-healing.. Message-ID: I'm working on configuring my options for Self Healing and am wondering how many of you have it set up. What I'd like to have is a system that would automatically populate whatever Autorun data that was needed for a given computer to do Self Healing on the installed applications for that client. Does anyone have a simplified way of handling this? I really don't feel like adding individual applications to each and every computer's Autorun data since not all of the computers received the exact same configuration. John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090511/bbc97413/attachment.html From Justin.G.Crowe at nasa.gov Wed May 13 10:17:45 2009 From: Justin.G.Crowe at nasa.gov (Justin Crowe) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 10:17:45 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Marking adobe packages as adobe packages in Casper Admin Message-ID: <835D6834-8D88-48A3-A533-3269D02FBACF@nasa.gov> Does anyone know if this is working correctly and I am not doing it right? When I download a patch from Adobe's website and try to mark it as an Adobe Patch package in the Info tab in Casper Admin, it always tells me that the package is not an Adobe Patch package. I have tried it with multiple different packages from their site but they all didn't seem to work. I tried indexing them first and that didn't seem to do anything either. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Justin From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Wed May 13 10:30:32 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:30:32 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Marking adobe packages as adobe packages in Casper Admin In-Reply-To: <835D6834-8D88-48A3-A533-3269D02FBACF@nasa.gov> Message-ID: CS4 or CS3? And which software updat? On 5/13/09 12:17 PM, "Justin Crowe" wrote: Does anyone know if this is working correctly and I am not doing it right? When I download a patch from Adobe's website and try to mark it as an Adobe Patch package in the Info tab in Casper Admin, it always tells me that the package is not an Adobe Patch package. I have tried it with multiple different packages from their site but they all didn't seem to work. I tried indexing them first and that didn't seem to do anything either. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Justin _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090513/67feeff6/attachment.html From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Wed May 13 10:28:13 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 13:28:13 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Marking adobe packages as adobe packages in Casper Admin In-Reply-To: <835D6834-8D88-48A3-A533-3269D02FBACF@nasa.gov> Message-ID: If this is either a) a CS4 update or b) an Acrobat update it will fail. Casper 7 will support CS4 installers/updates. Acrobat, I tend to roll out as a regular update. You likely need to treat them in this manner. j On 5/13/09 13:17 , "Justin Crowe" wrote: Does anyone know if this is working correctly and I am not doing it right? When I download a patch from Adobe's website and try to mark it as an Adobe Patch package in the Info tab in Casper Admin, it always tells me that the package is not an Adobe Patch package. I have tried it with multiple different packages from their site but they all didn't seem to work. I tried indexing them first and that didn't seem to do anything either. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Justin _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090513/b155da24/attachment.html From justin.g.crowe at nasa.gov Wed May 13 10:40:29 2009 From: justin.g.crowe at nasa.gov (Justin Crowe) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 10:40:29 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Marking adobe packages as adobe packages in Casper Admin In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <10D8F27D-1B59-430B-AE9F-12CEA07EC715@nasa.gov> Mainly Acrobat and Reader for now. We have copies of Acrobat 7, 8, and 9 and managing them all is hard since there are different versions of Pro and Standard. I am trying to patch Reader to 9.1.1 and Acrobat to all the latest versions. Just as I am typing this I see the other response to roll them out as a regular update and not using this option. It would be nice if this could work on all Adobe products. Thank you, Justin On May 13, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Ernst, Craig S. wrote: > CS4 or CS3? And which software updat? > > > On 5/13/09 12:17 PM, "Justin Crowe" wrote: > > Does anyone know if this is working correctly and I am not doing it > right? When I download a patch from Adobe's website and try to mark > it as an Adobe Patch package in the Info tab in Casper Admin, it > always tells me that the package is not an Adobe Patch package. I have > tried it with multiple different packages from their site but they all > didn't seem to work. I tried indexing them first and that didn't seem > to do anything either. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Justin > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090513/8311b9b0/attachment.htm From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Wed May 13 10:43:55 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:43:55 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Marking adobe packages as adobe packages in Casper Admin In-Reply-To: <10D8F27D-1B59-430B-AE9F-12CEA07EC715@nasa.gov> Message-ID: Agreed. Would also be nice to have a command line updater so you wouldn't need to put the updates in the system at all...just run a command! Am I missing something there? On 5/13/09 12:40 PM, "Justin Crowe" wrote: It would be nice if this could work on all Adobe products. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090513/a7b1bc41/attachment.html From william.smith at merrillcorp.com Wed May 13 11:15:04 2009 From: william.smith at merrillcorp.com (Smith, William) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 13:15:04 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Marking adobe packages as adobe packages in Casper Admin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: From: "Ernst, Craig S." Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:43:55 -0500 > Agreed. > > Would also be nice to have a command line updater so you wouldn?t need to put > the updates in the system at all...just run a command! Am I missing something > there? This is all Adobe. The JAMF folks simply use the scripting APIs provided by Adobe for their installers. The Acrobat team at Adobe does its own thing compared to the rest of the suite and one of those things it doesn't do is provide scripting support in its Acrobat updaters for Mac. Adobe has said that the next version of Acrobat installer for Mac will come as a .pkg format, which gives me a modicum of hope for the future. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Wed May 13 11:16:27 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 14:16:27 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Marking adobe packages as adobe packages in Casper Admin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: About the only thing that works reliably is to use the Casper tools, especially smart groups and making sure you recon after each patch. I really wish Adobe would at least stop with delta-only updates. Microsoft has finally (I think ) caught on with Office 2008, now we just need Adobe to follow suit. j On 5/13/09 13:43 , "Ernst, Craig S." wrote: Agreed. Would also be nice to have a command line updater so you wouldn't need to put the updates in the system at all...just run a command! Am I missing something there? On 5/13/09 12:40 PM, "Justin Crowe" wrote: It would be nice if this could work on all Adobe products. --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090513/d18193b5/attachment.htm From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Thu May 14 07:12:08 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:12:08 -0400 Subject: [Casper] authenticating.. Message-ID: I am no longer prompted upon NetBoot for AD authentication to use Casper Imaging. This is a big security issue for us and I desperately need to remedy this. How can I mass edit the Autorun data or delete what was set with it so that staff is prompted for AD authentication when using Casper Imaging at NetBoot? Any help is greatly appreciated. John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090514/1ced14a3/attachment.htm From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Thu May 14 08:19:39 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:19:39 -0500 Subject: [Casper] authenticating.. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Go to your JSS, then select the Admin Tab from there you should be able to choose Autorun Data (Right side almost all the way down under the "Mass Edit" heading) In there you should be able to grab whatever group you want (i.e. all managed computers if you don't want it on any) it will prompt you to verify them and then after that you can select to change whatever you want, or simply uncheck everything so there isn't any autorun data. Long story short JSS>Admin>Autorun Data -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of John McLaughlin Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:12 AM To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] authenticating.. I am no longer prompted upon NetBoot for AD authentication to use Casper Imaging. This is a big security issue for us and I desperately need to remedy this. How can I mass edit the Autorun data or delete what was set with it so that staff is prompted for AD authentication when using Casper Imaging at NetBoot? Any help is greatly appreciated. John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090514/9d23850c/attachment.htm From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Thu May 14 08:22:26 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:22:26 -0400 Subject: [Casper] authenticating.. In-Reply-To: <2A3135A5-0FEF-4722-A9CC-F3376CCCB9CC@embl.de> References: <2A3135A5-0FEF-4722-A9CC-F3376CCCB9CC@embl.de> Message-ID: Thanks for the help. I should mention that this all started because I edited the Autorun data for All Managed Machines because JAMF's techs were helping me work out Self Healing issues. Once I changed that though, all machines are skipping passed authentication when they NetBooted to Casper Imaging. I think I have deleted most of the machines Autorun data since I don't need it but it would be nice to know how to do this on a large scale. John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools Carmelo Lopez writes: >Hi >I had this problem and was to enable Use Authentication when >connecting-->Simple under Admin-->LDAP Servers >But I am using LDAP and not AD. > > >Here is a picture >I hope this is the case >cheers >carmelo > > > > >[Image] >On May 14, 2009, at 4:12 PM, John McLaughlin wrote: > > > >I am no longer prompted upon NetBoot for AD authentication to use Casper >Imaging. This is a big security issue for us and I desperately need to >remedy this. How can I mass edit the Autorun data or delete what was set >with it so that staff is prompted for AD authentication when using Casper >Imaging at NetBoot? Any help is greatly appreciated. > >John McLaughlin >Technical Support Specialist >Newton Public Schools > > >_______________________________________________ >Casper mailing list >[ mailto:Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com ]Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >[ http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >]http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > >Carmelo Lopez Portilla > > >ITS EMBL Heidelberg >Tel. +49 (0) 6221 387 8444 >Fax +49 (0) 6221 387 8517 >email: [ mailto:lopez at embl.de ]lopez at embl.de > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090514/a207b9e7/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Picture 6.png Type: image/png Size: 60823 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090514/a207b9e7/attachment.png From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Thu May 14 08:26:42 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:26:42 -0400 Subject: [Casper] authenticating.. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I don't have anything checked there. I had just changed the distribution server at the bottom to another server. Since there is always something there, how do you revert a change like that? John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools "Dorey, Dustin" writes: >Go to your JSS, then select the Admin Tab from there you should be able >to choose Autorun Data (Right side almost all the way down under the >?Mass Edit? heading) > >In there you should be able to grab whatever group you want (i.e. all >managed computers if you don?t want it on any) it will prompt you to >verify them and then after that you can select to change whatever you >want, or simply uncheck everything so there isn?t any autorun data. > >Long story short JSS>Admin>Autorun Data > >-Dusty- > > > >Dustin Dorey >Technology Support Cluster Specialist >Independant School District 196 >Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools >dustin.dorey at district196.org >651|423|7971 > > > >From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com >[mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of John McLaughlin >Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:12 AM >To: Casper List >Subject: [Casper] authenticating.. > > > > > >I am no longer prompted upon NetBoot for AD authentication to use Casper >Imaging. This is a big security issue for us and I desperately need to >remedy this. How can I mass edit the Autorun data or delete what was set >with it so that staff is prompted for AD authentication when using Casper >Imaging at NetBoot? Any help is greatly appreciated. > >John McLaughlin >Technical Support Specialist >Newton Public Schools > > >_______________________________________________ >Casper mailing list >Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090514/d82f3fa5/attachment.html From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Thu May 14 08:58:39 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:58:39 -0500 Subject: [Casper] authenticating.. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: What do you mean revert? Do you have more than one distribution point? If not it shouldn't matter if the fileserver shows up there. If it does matter you'll need to mass edit your groups depending on which share you want each to point at i.e. if each building had a share then you could edit it that way. I don't think there is a way to just do a edit>undo or anything like that. -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: John McLaughlin [mailto:John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:27 AM To: Dorey, Dustin Cc: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] authenticating.. I don't have anything checked there. I had just changed the distribution server at the bottom to another server. Since there is always something there, how do you revert a change like that? John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools "Dorey, Dustin" writes: Go to your JSS, then select the Admin Tab from there you should be able to choose Autorun Data (Right side almost all the way down under the "Mass Edit" heading) In there you should be able to grab whatever group you want (i.e. all managed computers if you don't want it on any) it will prompt you to verify them and then after that you can select to change whatever you want, or simply uncheck everything so there isn't any autorun data. Long story short JSS>Admin>Autorun Data -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of John McLaughlin Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:12 AM To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] authenticating.. I am no longer prompted upon NetBoot for AD authentication to use Casper Imaging. This is a big security issue for us and I desperately need to remedy this. How can I mass edit the Autorun data or delete what was set with it so that staff is prompted for AD authentication when using Casper Imaging at NetBoot? Any help is greatly appreciated. John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090514/2a52fbe7/attachment.html From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Thu May 14 13:27:05 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:27:05 -0500 Subject: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions Message-ID: OK so here goes, I have this application that I want to use, it's a Password Expiration Monitor that sits in the Menu Bar and displays the days until their password expires, also if you click on it the menu has a "change password" option and opens system prefs and takes them to the change password. I like it, it makes our AD users lives a little easier. The caveat is that if you just package and install it the user still has to launch the app and in it's preferences set it to launch at login. Not something I'd like to have them do when I'm trying to make their lives easier. So I wrote an applescript that adds the app to their login items for them. So then I wanted to find a way to trigger that applescript. Launchd seemed a good way to go, so I created a User Agent with Lingon that launches the applescript (I also added a line to the applescript that deletes the Agent so it only runs the first time) Well as convulted as this sounds it worked well. On a machine the first time a user logs in launchd sees the agent I created, which launches the applescript that adds the Password Monitor to the login items, and then deletes the Agent since it's not needed anymore. The problem is when I build the package and select to Fill the User Template so AD users will get that launchd agent FUT sets the permissions to that user. For the agent to work it needs a very specific set of permissions and ownership. Any ideas on how to override this or have I just gone off the deep? I'm trying to avoid having a policy set to all of our AD bound machines since the number of policies is getting rather astronomical and if I could have everything contained in the app I'd be much happier. Is the answer a Dummy Receipt? J -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090514/8d215236/attachment.html From tlarki at kckps.org Thu May 14 13:38:41 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:38:41 -0500 Subject: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A0C3B01.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Where did you put the launchd item? /Library/LaunchAgents is for users at log in and will apply to all users /Library/LaunchDaemons is for system wide launchd items and are ran at boot ~/Library/LaunchAgents are user specific launchd items and only launch when that specific user logs in. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Dorey, Dustin" 05/14/09 3:27 PM >>> OK so here goes, I have this application that I want to use, it?s a Password Expiration Monitor that sits in the Menu Bar and displays the days until their password expires, also if you click on it the menu has a ?change password? option and opens system prefs and takes them to the change password. I like it, it makes our AD users lives a little easier. The caveat is that if you just package and install it the user still has to launch the app and in it?s preferences set it to launch at login. Not something I?d like to have them do when I?m trying to make their lives easier. So I wrote an applescript that adds the app to their login items for them. So then I wanted to find a way to trigger that applescript. Launchd seemed a good way to go, so I created a User Agent with Lingon that launches the applescript (I also added a line to the applescript that deletes the Agent so it only runs the first time) Well as convulted as this sounds it worked well. On a machine the first time a user logs in launchd sees the agent I created, which launches the applescript that adds the Password Monitor to the login items, and then deletes the Agent since it?s not needed anymore. The problem is when I build the package and select to Fill the User Template so AD users will get that launchd agent FUT sets the permissions to that user. For the agent to work it needs a very specific set of permissions and ownership. Any ideas on how to override this or have I just gone off the deep? I?m trying to avoid having a policy set to all of our AD bound machines since the number of policies is getting rather astronomical and if I could have everything contained in the app I?d be much happier. Is the answer a Dummy Receipt? J -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090514/8350abce/attachment.htm From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Thu May 14 13:50:29 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:50:29 -0500 Subject: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions In-Reply-To: <4A0C3B01.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <4A0C3B01.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: Sorry ~/Library/LaunchAgents as I wanted it to launch for each new AD user that was created at the time of their first login . Some of our machines have more than one AD user on them. And I really didn?t care if it got put in startup items for non AD users since it would then just display a diamond in the menubar. The associated Applescript that it launches creates a login item for the logged in user as well and then removes the agent ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.isd19.login.plist . -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: Thomas Larkin [mailto:tlarki at kckps.org] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 3:39 PM To: Dorey, Dustin; Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions Where did you put the launchd item? /Library/LaunchAgents is for users at log in and will apply to all users /Library/LaunchDaemons is for system wide launchd items and are ran at boot ~/Library/LaunchAgents are user specific launchd items and only launch when that specific user logs in. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Dorey, Dustin" 05/14/09 3:27 PM >>> OK so here goes, I have this application that I want to use, it?s a Password Expiration Monitor that sits in the Menu Bar and displays the days until their password expires, also if you click on it the menu has a ?change password? option and opens system prefs and takes them to the change password. I like it, it makes our AD users lives a little easier. The caveat is that if you just package and install it the user still has to launch the app and in it?s preferences set it to launch at login. Not something I?d like to have them do when I?m trying to make their lives easier. So I wrote an applescript that adds the app to their login items for them. So then I wanted to find a way to trigger that applescript. Launchd seemed a good way to go, so I created a User Agent with Lingon that launches the applescript (I also added a line to the applescript that deletes the Agent so it only runs the first time) Well as convulted as this sounds it worked well. On a machine the first time a user logs in launchd sees the agent I created, which launches the applescript that adds the Password Monitor to the login items, and then deletes the Agent since it?s not needed anymore. The problem is when I build the package and select to Fill the User Template so AD users will get that launchd agent FUT sets the permissions to that user. For the agent to work it needs a very specific set of permissions and ownership. Any ideas on how to override this or have I just gone off the deep? I?m trying to avoid having a policy set to all of our AD bound machines since the number of policies is getting rather astronomical and if I could have everything contained in the app I?d be much happier. Is the answer a Dummy Receipt? J -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090514/77e41cfa/attachment.html From adamshep07 at aol.com Thu May 14 17:32:26 2009 From: adamshep07 at aol.com (Adam Shepard) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 17:32:26 -0700 Subject: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <638F67B7-763E-4611-B607-1FB6482DE4A1@aol.com> We have an app that we load in the menu bar that users can click on and get their local ethernet and airport IP address'. In order to launch this on all machines we use launchd. This simply points to the application to launch and is also set with the KeepAlive key set to true so that even if the user quits it, it relaunches. Below is the launchd plist we use. -Adam Adam Shepard Creighton School District Web Developer / System Administrator [Office 602-381-6000][Cell 602-319-8935] Label org.creightonschools.ip4me KeepAlive ProgramArguments /Applications/ip4me.app/Contents/MacOS/ip4me On May 14, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Dorey, Dustin wrote: > OK so here goes, > I have this application that I want to use, it?s a Password > Expiration Monitor that sits in the Menu Bar and displays the days > until their password expires, also if you click on it the menu has a > ?change password? option and opens system prefs and takes them to > the change password. I like it, it makes our AD users lives a > little easier. The caveat is that if you just package and install > it the user still has to launch the app and in it?s preferences set > it to launch at login. Not something I?d like to have them do > when I?m trying to make their lives easier. So I wrote an > applescript that adds the app to their login items for them. So > then I wanted to find a way to trigger that applescript. Launchd > seemed a good way to go, so I created a User Agent with Lingon that > launches the applescript (I also added a line to the applescript > that deletes the Agent so it only runs the first time) > > Well as convulted as this sounds it worked well. On a machine the > first time a user logs in launchd sees the agent I created, which > launches the applescript that adds the Password Monitor to the login > items, and then deletes the Agent since it?s not needed anymore. > > The problem is when I build the package and select to Fill the User > Template so AD users will get that launchd agent FUT sets the > permissions to that user. > For the agent to work it needs a very specific set of permissions > and ownership. Any ideas on how to override this or have I just > gone off the deep? I?m trying to avoid having a policy set to all > of our AD bound machines since the number of policies is getting > rather astronomical and if I could have everything contained in the > app I?d be much happier. > > Is the answer a Dummy Receipt? J > > -Dusty- > > Dustin Dorey > Technology Support Cluster Specialist > Independant School District 196 > Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools > dustin.dorey at district196.org > 651|423|7971 > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090514/545245b3/attachment.html From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Fri May 15 05:49:38 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 07:49:38 -0500 Subject: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions In-Reply-To: <638F67B7-763E-4611-B607-1FB6482DE4A1@aol.com> References: <638F67B7-763E-4611-B607-1FB6482DE4A1@aol.com> Message-ID: I'm assuming that this is a daemon and not a user agent, is that correct? -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: Adam Shepard [mailto:adamshep07 at aol.com] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:32 PM To: Dorey, Dustin Cc: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions We have an app that we load in the menu bar that users can click on and get their local ethernet and airport IP address'. In order to launch this on all machines we use launchd. This simply points to the application to launch and is also set with the KeepAlive key set to true so that even if the user quits it, it relaunches. Below is the launchd plist we use. -Adam Adam Shepard Creighton School District Web Developer / System Administrator [Office 602-381-6000][Cell 602-319-8935] Label org.creightonschools.ip4me KeepAlive ProgramArguments /Applications/ip4me.app/Contents/MacOS/ip4me On May 14, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Dorey, Dustin wrote: OK so here goes, I have this application that I want to use, it's a Password Expiration Monitor that sits in the Menu Bar and displays the days until their password expires, also if you click on it the menu has a "change password" option and opens system prefs and takes them to the change password. I like it, it makes our AD users lives a little easier. The caveat is that if you just package and install it the user still has to launch the app and in it's preferences set it to launch at login. Not something I'd like to have them do when I'm trying to make their lives easier. So I wrote an applescript that adds the app to their login items for them. So then I wanted to find a way to trigger that applescript. Launchd seemed a good way to go, so I created a User Agent with Lingon that launches the applescript (I also added a line to the applescript that deletes the Agent so it only runs the first time) Well as convulted as this sounds it worked well. On a machine the first time a user logs in launchd sees the agent I created, which launches the applescript that adds the Password Monitor to the login items, and then deletes the Agent since it's not needed anymore. The problem is when I build the package and select to Fill the User Template so AD users will get that launchd agent FUT sets the permissions to that user. For the agent to work it needs a very specific set of permissions and ownership. Any ideas on how to override this or have I just gone off the deep? I'm trying to avoid having a policy set to all of our AD bound machines since the number of policies is getting rather astronomical and if I could have everything contained in the app I'd be much happier. Is the answer a Dummy Receipt? J -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090515/2e83ceba/attachment.htm From adamshep07 at aol.com Fri May 15 06:11:12 2009 From: adamshep07 at aol.com (Adam Shepard) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 06:11:12 -0700 Subject: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions In-Reply-To: References: <638F67B7-763E-4611-B607-1FB6482DE4A1@aol.com> Message-ID: <98B70699-AEBD-4D5C-9BAB-1C71831FDC2C@aol.com> Correct this is a daemon that we put here: /Library/LaunchDaemons/. This would also help you avoid having to use FUT and an AppleScript which would be one less point of failure to have to troubleshoot. On May 15, 2009, at 5:49 AM, Dorey, Dustin wrote: > I?m assuming that this is a daemon and not a user agent, is that > correct? > > -Dusty- > > Dustin Dorey > Technology Support Cluster Specialist > Independant School District 196 > Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools > dustin.dorey at district196.org > 651|423|7971 > > > > From: Adam Shepard [mailto:adamshep07 at aol.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:32 PM > To: Dorey, Dustin > Cc: Casper List > Subject: Re: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions > > We have an app that we load in the menu bar that users can click on > and get their local ethernet and airport IP address'. In order to > launch this on all machines we use launchd. This simply points to > the application to launch and is also set with the KeepAlive key set > to true so that even if the user quits it, it relaunches. > > Below is the launchd plist we use. > > -Adam > > Adam Shepard > Creighton School District Web Developer / System Administrator > [Office 602-381-6000][Cell 602-319-8935] > > > "> > > > Label > org.creightonschools.ip4me > KeepAlive > > ProgramArguments > > /Applications/ip4me.app/Contents/MacOS/ > ip4me > > > > > > > > > On May 14, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Dorey, Dustin wrote: > > > OK so here goes, > I have this application that I want to use, it?s a Password > Expiration Monitor that sits in the Menu Bar and displays the days > until their password expires, also if you click on it the menu has a > ?change password? option and opens system prefs and takes them to > the change password. I like it, it makes our AD users lives a > little easier. The caveat is that if you just package and install > it the user still has to launch the app and in it?s preferences set > it to launch at login. Not something I?d like to have them do > when I?m trying to make their lives easier. So I wrote an > applescript that adds the app to their login items for them. So > then I wanted to find a way to trigger that applescript. Launchd > seemed a good way to go, so I created a User Agent with Lingon that > launches the applescript (I also added a line to the applescript > that deletes the Agent so it only runs the first time) > > Well as convulted as this sounds it worked well. On a machine the > first time a user logs in launchd sees the agent I created, which > launches the applescript that adds the Password Monitor to the login > items, and then deletes the Agent since it?s not needed anymore. > > The problem is when I build the package and select to Fill the User > Template so AD users will get that launchd agent FUT sets the > permissions to that user. > For the agent to work it needs a very specific set of permissions > and ownership. Any ideas on how to override this or have I just > gone off the deep? I?m trying to avoid having a policy set to all > of our AD bound machines since the number of policies is getting > rather astronomical and if I could have everything contained in the > app I?d be much happier. > > Is the answer a Dummy Receipt? J > > -Dusty- > > Dustin Dorey > Technology Support Cluster Specialist > Independant School District 196 > Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools > dustin.dorey at district196.org > 651|423|7971 > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090515/499bde43/attachment.html From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Fri May 15 06:15:58 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 08:15:58 -0500 Subject: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions In-Reply-To: <98B70699-AEBD-4D5C-9BAB-1C71831FDC2C@aol.com> References: <638F67B7-763E-4611-B607-1FB6482DE4A1@aol.com> <98B70699-AEBD-4D5C-9BAB-1C71831FDC2C@aol.com> Message-ID: Thanks for the idea, I'm going to try building it right now. I just had it stuck in my head to add the item to the user's login items and just kept going down that path, kind of stuck in a rut. BTW ever use lingon to build your agents, and daemons? Thanks again! -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: Adam Shepard [mailto:adamshep07 at aol.com] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:11 AM To: Dorey, Dustin Cc: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions Correct this is a daemon that we put here: /Library/LaunchDaemons/. This would also help you avoid having to use FUT and an AppleScript which would be one less point of failure to have to troubleshoot. On May 15, 2009, at 5:49 AM, Dorey, Dustin wrote: I'm assuming that this is a daemon and not a user agent, is that correct? -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: Adam Shepard [mailto:adamshep07 at aol.com] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:32 PM To: Dorey, Dustin Cc: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions We have an app that we load in the menu bar that users can click on and get their local ethernet and airport IP address'. In order to launch this on all machines we use launchd. This simply points to the application to launch and is also set with the KeepAlive key set to true so that even if the user quits it, it relaunches. Below is the launchd plist we use. -Adam Adam Shepard Creighton School District Web Developer / System Administrator [Office 602-381-6000][Cell 602-319-8935] Label org.creightonschools.ip4me KeepAlive ProgramArguments /Applications/ip4me.app/Contents/MacOS/ip4me On May 14, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Dorey, Dustin wrote: OK so here goes, I have this application that I want to use, it's a Password Expiration Monitor that sits in the Menu Bar and displays the days until their password expires, also if you click on it the menu has a "change password" option and opens system prefs and takes them to the change password. I like it, it makes our AD users lives a little easier. The caveat is that if you just package and install it the user still has to launch the app and in it's preferences set it to launch at login. Not something I'd like to have them do when I'm trying to make their lives easier. So I wrote an applescript that adds the app to their login items for them. So then I wanted to find a way to trigger that applescript. Launchd seemed a good way to go, so I created a User Agent with Lingon that launches the applescript (I also added a line to the applescript that deletes the Agent so it only runs the first time) Well as convulted as this sounds it worked well. On a machine the first time a user logs in launchd sees the agent I created, which launches the applescript that adds the Password Monitor to the login items, and then deletes the Agent since it's not needed anymore. The problem is when I build the package and select to Fill the User Template so AD users will get that launchd agent FUT sets the permissions to that user. For the agent to work it needs a very specific set of permissions and ownership. Any ideas on how to override this or have I just gone off the deep? I'm trying to avoid having a policy set to all of our AD bound machines since the number of policies is getting rather astronomical and if I could have everything contained in the app I'd be much happier. Is the answer a Dummy Receipt? J -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper = = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090515/1347c3b2/attachment.htm From lpnicholas at moravian.edu Fri May 15 08:38:21 2009 From: lpnicholas at moravian.edu (Nicholas, Lauren) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:38:21 -0400 Subject: [Casper] ADmitMac deployment Message-ID: For those who are ADmitMac users- I am getting an error when trying to deploy our ADmitMac package on my config on casper imaging. Here is what I got: An error occurred executing the policy "Binding" on the computer "MREVLIB03". Event log from the policy: /usr/sbin/jamf is version 6.01 Executing Policy Binding... Downloading http://10.225.1.144:80/CasperShare/Scripts//bindToOD.sh ... Running Script bindToOD.sh... Downloading BOM for ADmitMac.pkg... Downloading Components of http://10.225.1.144:80/CasperShare/Packages//ADmitMac.pkg ... Installing ADmitMac.pkg... Installation failed. The installer reported: read: No such file or directory can't read from /Library/Application Support/JAMF/Downloads/ADmitMac.pkg/Contents/Resources/ADmitMac.bom installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: '/Library/Application Support/JAMF/Downloads/ADmitMac.pkg'. Blessing i386 OS X System on /... Creating Reboot Script... Nick told me that the error I'm seeing seems to relate to the ADmitMac package not having an index.bom file. (which provides each client a list of files that are contained in the PKG, so that when a package is downloaded via HTTP, a client can know when it has a complete package.) I should be prompted with a dialog that a package is missing an index.bom file, in which case i can click "create BOMs" and it would be fixed. However, I am not seeing any kind of dialog when I launch Casper Admin. Has anyone seen this before, or know what how I might be able to correct this? (the package works fine when I deploy it via ARD or manually.) Thanks! - lauren - LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst - Hurd Campus Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090515/3cf17c80/attachment.html From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Fri May 15 08:49:41 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 10:49:41 -0500 Subject: [Casper] ADmitMac deployment In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Have you indexed the package? -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Nicholas, Lauren Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 10:38 AM To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Subject: [Casper] ADmitMac deployment For those who are ADmitMac users- I am getting an error when trying to deploy our ADmitMac package on my config on casper imaging. Here is what I got: An error occurred executing the policy "Binding" on the computer "MREVLIB03". Event log from the policy: /usr/sbin/jamf is version 6.01 Executing Policy Binding... Downloading http://10.225.1.144:80/CasperShare/Scripts//bindToOD.sh ... Running Script bindToOD.sh... Downloading BOM for ADmitMac.pkg... Downloading Components of http://10.225.1.144:80/CasperShare/Packages//ADmitMac.pkg ... Installing ADmitMac.pkg... Installation failed. The installer reported: read: No such file or directory can't read from /Library/Application Support/JAMF/Downloads/ADmitMac.pkg/Contents/Resources/ADmitMac.bom installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: '/Library/Application Support/JAMF/Downloads/ADmitMac.pkg'. Blessing i386 OS X System on /... Creating Reboot Script... Nick told me that the error I'm seeing seems to relate to the ADmitMac package not having an index.bom file. (which provides each client a list of files that are contained in the PKG, so that when a package is downloaded via HTTP, a client can know when it has a complete package.) I should be prompted with a dialog that a package is missing an index.bom file, in which case i can click "create BOMs" and it would be fixed. However, I am not seeing any kind of dialog when I launch Casper Admin. Has anyone seen this before, or know what how I might be able to correct this? (the package works fine when I deploy it via ARD or manually.) Thanks! - lauren - LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst - Hurd Campus Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090515/17eb89fd/attachment.htm From adamshep07 at aol.com Fri May 15 09:16:11 2009 From: adamshep07 at aol.com (adamshep07 at aol.com) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 12:16:11 -0400 Subject: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8CBA38F98A26BF1-156C-1E1@MBLK-M38.sysops.aol.com> When I got to work I looked again at my e-mails and saw that I said it LaunchDaemon. This would probably work but wouldn't be a good practice. You probably want a Launch Agent installed here: /Library/LaunchAgents From the Apple web site (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/ launchd.plist.5.html): /Library/LaunchAgents Per-user agents provided by the administrator. /Library/LaunchDaemons System wide daemons provided by the administrator. Let me know how this works out. -Adam -----Original Message----- From: Dorey, Dustin To: Adam Shepard Cc: Casper List Sent: Fri, 15 May 2009 6:15 am Subject: RE: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions Thanks for the idea, I?m going to try building it right now.?? I just had it stuck in my head to add the item to the user?s login items and just kept going down that path, kind of stuck in a rut.?? BTW ever use lingon to build your agents, and daemons??? Thanks again! ? -Dusty- ? Dustin? Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 ? ? ? From: Adam Shepard [mailto:adamshep07 at aol.com] =0 D Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:11 AM To: Dorey, Dustin Cc: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions ? Correct this is a daemon that we put here: ?/Library/LaunchDaemons/. This would also help you avoid having to use FUT and an AppleScript which would be one less point of failure to have to troubleshoot. ? ? ? On May 15, 2009, at 5:49 AM, Dorey, Dustin wrote: I?m assuming that this is a daemon and not a user agent, is that correct? ? -Dusty- ? Dustin? Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 ? ? ? From:?Adam Shepard [mailto:adamshep07 at aol.com]? Sent:?Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:32 PM To:?Dorey, Dustin Cc:?Casper List Subject:?Re: [Casper] FUT, ownership, and permissions =0 D ? We have an app that we load in the menu bar that users can click on and get their local ethernet and airport IP address'. ?In order to launch this on all machines we use launchd. This simply points to the application to launch and is also set with the KeepAlive key set to true so that even if the user quits it, it relaunches. ? Below is the launchd plist we use. ? -Adam ? Adam Shepard Creighton School District Web Developer / System Administrator [Office 602-381-6000][Cell 602-319-8935] ? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> ?? ? ? ?<key>Label</key> ?? ? ? ?<string>org.creightonschools.ip4me</string> ?? ? ? ?<key>KeepAlive</key> ?<true/> ?<key>ProgramArguments</key> ?? ? ? ?<array> ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?<string>/Applications/ip4me.app/Contents/MacOS/ip4me</string> ; ?? ? ? ?</array> </dict> </plist> ? ? ? ? ? On May 14, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Dorey, Dustin wrote: OK so here goes, I have this application that I want to use, it?s a Password Expiration Monitor that sits in the Menu Bar and displays the days until their password expires, also if you click on it the menu has a ?change password? option and opens system prefs and takes them to the change password.??? I like it, it makes our AD users lives a little easier.? ??The caveat is that if you just package and install it the user still has to launch the app and in it?s preferences set it to launch at login.??? Not something I?d like to have them do when I?m trying to make their lives easier.??? So I wrote an applescript that adds the app to their login items for them.? So then I wanted to find a way to trigger that applescript.?? Launchd seemed a good way to go, so I created a User Agent with Lingon that launches the applescript (I also added a line to the applescript that deletes the Agent so it only runs the first time) ? Well as convulted as this sounds it worked well.?? On a machine the first time a user logs in launchd sees the agent I created, which launches the applescript that adds the Password Monitor to the login items, and then deletes the Agent since it?s not needed anymore.? ? The problem is when I build the package and select to Fill the User Template so AD users will get that launchd agent FUT sets the permissions to that user. For the agent to work it needs a very specific set of permissions and owne rship.??? Any ideas on how to override this or have I just gone off the deep??? I?m trying to avoid having a policy set to all of our AD bound machines since the number of policies is getting rather astronomical and if I could have everything contained in the app I?d be much happier.?? ? Is the answer a Dummy Receipt????J ? -Dusty- ? Dustin? Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 ? _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ? = ? = From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Fri May 15 12:01:26 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:01:26 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Firefox 3.0.10 deployment Message-ID: Hi- Is anyone having trouble with Firefox 3.0.10 deployment? I know it seems like a simple thing, but I'm running into problems. My policy is basically, run a prescript that consists of "killall firefox-bin" to make sure that firefox isn't running during the install. (This will also (hopefully) let firefox think it's crashed and will prompt the user to restore session (and thus their open tabs) when they return to firefox.) Then, install firefox (just the App, no profiles or settings as we already distribute a minimally customized app). Then, recon it and re-open firefox. I'm seeing problems with firefox hanging on the quit and dock icons disappearing. If firefox isn't open during the deployment, all runs fine. I only run into problems if it's open. Should I approach this differently? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090515/6baba91b/attachment.htm From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Fri May 15 12:01:26 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:01:26 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Firefox 3.0.10 deployment Message-ID: Hi- Is anyone having trouble with Firefox 3.0.10 deployment? I know it seems like a simple thing, but I'm running into problems. My policy is basically, run a prescript that consists of "killall firefox-bin" to make sure that firefox isn't running during the install. (This will also (hopefully) let firefox think it's crashed and will prompt the user to restore session (and thus their open tabs) when they return to firefox.) Then, install firefox (just the App, no profiles or settings as we already distribute a minimally customized app). Then, recon it and re-open firefox. I'm seeing problems with firefox hanging on the quit and dock icons disappearing. If firefox isn't open during the deployment, all runs fine. I only run into problems if it's open. Should I approach this differently? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090515/6baba91b/attachment.html From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Fri May 15 12:40:42 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:40:42 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Firefox 3.0.10 deployment In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This may be more work than it's worth so anyone with a more efficient way please jump in. Here's a three step way but once set up should be hands off other then deleting a few things in the JSS later. 1. Create a policy to cache the package. 2. Make a smart group of all the computers that have that packaged cached. 3. Create a second policy scoped to your smartgroup from step 2 that triggers the install at startup that way there is little to no chance of the user having the app running at trigger time. You could make this one available offline too since the package will be cached already I'm thinking. -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Nichols, Jared Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 2:01 PM To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] Firefox 3.0.10 deployment Hi- Is anyone having trouble with Firefox 3.0.10 deployment? I know it seems like a simple thing, but I'm running into problems. My policy is basically, run a prescript that consists of "killall firefox-bin" to make sure that firefox isn't running during the install. (This will also (hopefully) let firefox think it's crashed and will prompt the user to restore session (and thus their open tabs) when they return to firefox.) Then, install firefox (just the App, no profiles or settings as we already distribute a minimally customized app). Then, recon it and re-open firefox. I'm seeing problems with firefox hanging on the quit and dock icons disappearing. If firefox isn't open during the deployment, all runs fine. I only run into problems if it's open. Should I approach this differently? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090515/0db4562c/attachment.html From tlarki at kckps.org Fri May 15 12:46:54 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:46:54 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Firefox 3.0.10 deployment In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A0D805E.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Think about using self service? Then have a series of scripts run that 1) kill the application, 2) wipe out the existing application and it's contents, then 3) installs new FF package? You could even explain how to back up bookmarks in your self service description. That is what I would do. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Nichols, Jared" 05/15/09 2:01 PM >>> Hi- Is anyone having trouble with Firefox 3.0.10 deployment? I know it seems like a simple thing, but I?m running into problems. My policy is basically, run a prescript that consists of ?killall firefox-bin? to make sure that firefox isn?t running during the install. (This will also (hopefully) let firefox think it?s crashed and will prompt the user to restore session (and thus their open tabs) when they return to firefox.) Then, install firefox (just the App, no profiles or settings as we already distribute a minimally customized app). Then, recon it and re-open firefox. I?m seeing problems with firefox hanging on the quit and dock icons disappearing. If firefox isn?t open during the deployment, all runs fine. I only run into problems if it?s open. Should I approach this differently? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090515/16dc7ae5/attachment.htm From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Fri May 15 12:57:28 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:57:28 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Firefox 3.0.10 deployment In-Reply-To: <4A0D805E.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: I actually already have it available in self service, and that deployment works fine, even if it's open, oddly. I think it has something to do with the killing of firefox unexpectedly. I think I'll set it as a a login and go from there. That should hopefully resolve it. j On 5/15/09 15:46 , "Thomas Larkin" wrote: Think about using self service? Then have a series of scripts run that 1) kill the application, 2) wipe out the existing application and it's contents, then 3) installs new FF package? You could even explain how to back up bookmarks in your self service description. That is what I would do. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Nichols, Jared" 05/15/09 2:01 PM >>> Hi- Is anyone having trouble with Firefox 3.0.10 deployment? I know it seems like a simple thing, but I'm running into problems. My policy is basically, run a prescript that consists of "killall firefox-bin" to make sure that firefox isn't running during the install. (This will also (hopefully) let firefox think it's crashed and will prompt the user to restore session (and thus their open tabs) when they return to firefox.) Then, install firefox (just the App, no profiles or settings as we already distribute a minimally customized app). Then, recon it and re-open firefox. I'm seeing problems with firefox hanging on the quit and dock icons disappearing. If firefox isn't open during the deployment, all runs fine. I only run into problems if it's open. Should I approach this differently? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090515/7fed5fe6/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Fri May 15 13:16:55 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:16:55 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Firefox 3.0.10 deployment In-Reply-To: References: <4A0D805E.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <4A0D8767.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> I just know a lot of things break in updates of firefox and I let the users upgrade it them self. That way their favorite add ons don't break. Hell I am still running FF 2 on one of my Macs because it seems to me that spell check sucks in version 3 on the OS X side. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Nichols, Jared" 05/15/09 2:57 PM >>> I actually already have it available in self service, and that deployment works fine, even if it?s open, oddly. I think it has something to do with the killing of firefox unexpectedly. I think I?ll set it as a a login and go from there. That should hopefully resolve it. j On 5/15/09 15:46 , "Thomas Larkin" wrote: Think about using self service? Then have a series of scripts run that 1) kill the application, 2) wipe out the existing application and it's contents, then 3) installs new FF package? You could even explain how to back up bookmarks in your self service description. That is what I would do. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Nichols, Jared" 05/15/09 2:01 PM >>> Hi- Is anyone having trouble with Firefox 3.0.10 deployment? I know it seems like a simple thing, but I?m running into problems. My policy is basically, run a prescript that consists of ?killall firefox-bin? to make sure that firefox isn?t running during the install. (This will also (hopefully) let firefox think it?s crashed and will prompt the user to restore session (and thus their open tabs) when they return to firefox.) Then, install firefox (just the App, no profiles or settings as we already distribute a minimally customized app). Then, recon it and re-open firefox. I?m seeing problems with firefox hanging on the quit and dock icons disappearing. If firefox isn?t open during the deployment, all runs fine. I only run into problems if it?s open. Should I approach this differently? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090515/ec154f0b/attachment.html From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Fri May 15 13:25:16 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:25:16 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Firefox 3.0.10 deployment In-Reply-To: <4A0D8767.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: Yeah, that is a drawback. Unfortunately, the 2 branch is no longer receiving any security updates and there's a gaping one in .20. So, our hand was forced. j On 5/15/09 16:16 , "Thomas Larkin" wrote: I just know a lot of things break in updates of firefox and I let the users upgrade it them self. That way their favorite add ons don't break. Hell I am still running FF 2 on one of my Macs because it seems to me that spell check sucks in version 3 on the OS X side. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Nichols, Jared" 05/15/09 2:57 PM >>> I actually already have it available in self service, and that deployment works fine, even if it's open, oddly. I think it has something to do with the killing of firefox unexpectedly. I think I'll set it as a a login and go from there. That should hopefully resolve it. j On 5/15/09 15:46 , "Thomas Larkin" wrote: Think about using self service? Then have a series of scripts run that 1) kill the application, 2) wipe out the existing application and it's contents, then 3) installs new FF package? You could even explain how to back up bookmarks in your self service description. That is what I would do. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Nichols, Jared" 05/15/09 2:01 PM >>> Hi- Is anyone having trouble with Firefox 3.0.10 deployment? I know it seems like a simple thing, but I'm running into problems. My policy is basically, run a prescript that consists of "killall firefox-bin" to make sure that firefox isn't running during the install. (This will also (hopefully) let firefox think it's crashed and will prompt the user to restore session (and thus their open tabs) when they return to firefox.) Then, install firefox (just the App, no profiles or settings as we already distribute a minimally customized app). Then, recon it and re-open firefox. I'm seeing problems with firefox hanging on the quit and dock icons disappearing. If firefox isn't open during the deployment, all runs fine. I only run into problems if it's open. Should I approach this differently? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090515/17caa1be/attachment.htm From cmyers at uclan.ac.uk Sat May 16 11:51:41 2009 From: cmyers at uclan.ac.uk (Criss Myers) Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 19:51:41 +0100 Subject: [Casper] Firefox 3.0.10 deployment In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <17AFAE85-BB29-4D69-B303-89A70F124FD4@uclan.ac.uk> You make it a launch item at startup that way it gets installed and startup and then deletes itself afterwards, I do that with all updates that require the user not to logged in or running the program, I also use the jamfhelper if I need to prevent users from logging in On 15 May 2009, at 21:25, "Nichols, Jared" wrote: > Yeah, that is a drawback. Unfortunately, the 2 branch is no longer > receiving any security updates and there?s a gaping one in .20. So, > our hand was forced. > > j > > > On 5/15/09 16:16 , "Thomas Larkin" wrote: > > > > I just know a lot of things break in updates of firefox and I let > the users upgrade it them self. That way their favorite add ons > don't break. Hell I am still running FF 2 on one of my Macs because > it seems to me that spell check sucks in version 3 on the OS X side. > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> "Nichols, Jared" 05/15/09 2:57 PM >>> > > > > > I actually already have it available in self service, and that > deployment works fine, even if it?s open, oddly. I think it has som > ething to do with the killing of firefox unexpectedly. I think I?ll > set it as a a login and go from there. That should hopefully resol > ve it. > > j > > > On 5/15/09 15:46 , "Thomas Larkin" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Think about using self service? Then have a series of scripts run > that 1) kill the application, 2) wipe out the existing application > and it's contents, then 3) installs new FF package? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You could even explain how to back up bookmarks in your self > service description. That is what I would do. > > > > > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> "Nichols, Jared" 05/15/09 2:01 PM >>> > > > > > Hi- > > Is anyone having trouble with Firefox 3.0.10 deployment? I know it > seems like a simple thing, but I?m running into problems. My policy > is basically, run a prescript that consists of ?killall firefox-bin > ? to make sure that firefox isn?t running during the install. > (This will also (hopefully) let firefox think it?s crashed and will > prompt the user to restore session (and thus their open tabs) when t > hey return to firefox.) Then, install firefox (just the App, no pro > files or settings as we already distribute a minimally customized ap > p). Then, recon it and re-open firefox. > > I?m seeing problems with firefox hanging on the quit and dock icons > disappearing. If firefox isn?t open during the deployment, all runs > fine. I only run into problems if it?s open. Should I approach th > is differently? > > j > --- > Jared F. Nichols > Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations > Information Services Department > MIT Lincoln Laboratory > 244 Wood Street > Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 > 781.981.5436 > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > Jared F. Nichols > Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations > Information Services Department > MIT Lincoln Laboratory > 244 Wood Street > Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 > 781.981.5436 > > > > > > --- > Jared F. Nichols > Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations > Information Services Department > MIT Lincoln Laboratory > 244 Wood Street > Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 > 781.981.5436 > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090516/5c7b51c3/attachment.htm From kristian.christensen at oslo.ddb.com Mon May 18 02:02:52 2009 From: kristian.christensen at oslo.ddb.com (Kristian Christensen) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 11:02:52 +0200 Subject: [Casper] GSX integration Message-ID: I am having trouble getting the GSX integration to work as planed My GSX account has these setting: Can check Coverage/Warranty Can access Repair History Can Access Web Services It get an error like this every time i try to look something up org.apache.wsif.WSIFException: Cannot get part 'AuthenticateReturn'. Part was not found in message Any idea whats wrong? Regards Kristian Christensen It-manager [cid:3325489372_9152580] DDB Oslo Wergelandsveien 21 P.O. Box 7084 Majorstuen N-0306 Oslo Tlf dir: + 47 22 59 32 56 Mobil: +47 92 20 12 34 www.ddb.no ________________________________ *********************************************************************************** This e-mail is intended only for the named person or entity to which it is addressed and contains valuable business information that is privileged, confidential and/or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee, or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is strictly prohibited. All contents are the copyright property of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, you are nevertheless bound to respect the sender's worldwide legal rights. We require that unintended recipients delete the e-mail and destroy all electronic copies in their system, retaining no copies in any media. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify us by calling (+47) 22 59 32 00, or e-mail to it at oslo.ddb.com. We appreciate your cooperation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/a0f7af41/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.gif Type: image/gif Size: 605 bytes Desc: image.gif Url : http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/a0f7af41/attachment.gif From kristian.christensen at oslo.ddb.com Mon May 18 05:33:40 2009 From: kristian.christensen at oslo.ddb.com (Kristian Christensen) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 14:33:40 +0200 Subject: [Casper] [BULK] GSX integration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I get the problem when i look up something, both individual and from smartlists. I go to inventory and find a computer, clicks edit and go to the Purchasing Info tab, clicks retries information from the GSX, the the error shows up. Looking at the casper site, they says that Can Access Web Services should be enough, but...... Dosent work Kristian PS: I got my account from our apple dealer, and we do not have the full GSX access, only as shown under Can check Coverage/Warranty Can access Repair History Can Access Web Services Nicholas, Lauren skrev f?lgende den 18.05.09 14.25: Hmm... we just signed up for this and I simply entered our login information into the JSS and I was good to go. At what point did you get the error? Just when you tried to look up something? I assume you've logged into the GSX site and had no problems? - lauren - LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst - Hurd Campus Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Kristian Christensen Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 5:03 AM To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Subject: [BULK] [Casper] GSX integration Importance: Low I am having trouble getting the GSX integration to work as planed My GSX account has these setting: Can check Coverage/Warranty Can access Repair History Can Access Web Services It get an error like this every time i try to look something up org.apache.wsif.WSIFException: Cannot get part 'AuthenticateReturn'. Part was not found in message Any idea whats wrong? Regards Kristian Christensen It-manager [cid:3325502020_9920869] DDB Oslo Wergelandsveien 21 P.O. Box 7084 Majorstuen N-0306 Oslo Tlf dir: + 47 22 59 32 56 Mobil: +47 92 20 12 34 www.ddb.no ________________________________ *********************************************************************************** This e-mail is intended only for the named person or entity to which it is addressed and contains valuable business information that is privileged, confidential and/or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee, or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is strictly prohibited. All contents are the copyright property of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, you are nevertheless bound to respect the sender's worldwide legal rights. We require that unintended recipients delete the e-mail and destroy all electronic copies in their system, retaining no copies in any media. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify us by calling (+47) 22 59 32 00, or e-mail to it at oslo.ddb.com. We appreciate your cooperation ________________________________ *********************************************************************************** This e-mail is intended only for the named person or entity to which it is addressed and contains valuable business information that is privileged, confidential and/or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee, or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is strictly prohibited. All contents are the copyright property of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, you are nevertheless bound to respect the sender's worldwide legal rights. We require that unintended recipients delete the e-mail and destroy all electronic copies in their system, retaining no copies in any media. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify us by calling (+47) 22 59 32 00, or e-mail to it at oslo.ddb.com. We appreciate your cooperation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/eebecc11/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.gif Type: image/gif Size: 605 bytes Desc: image.gif Url : http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/eebecc11/attachment.gif From julius.wilpon at pearson.com Mon May 18 06:02:42 2009 From: julius.wilpon at pearson.com (Julius Wilpon) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:02:42 -0400 Subject: [Casper] [BULK] GSX integration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: You have to contact GSX and make sure your account has webservices enabled. By default it?s not. Julius Wilpon Director, Technology Support Pearson | Architecture, Engineering & Support 1 Lake Street Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 201-236-7817 office 201-574-6930 cell Julius.wilpon at pearson.com P Pearson is Green. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. From: Kristian Christensen Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 14:33:40 +0200 To: "casper at list.jamfsoftware.com" Subject: Re: [Casper] [BULK] GSX integration I get the problem when i look up something, both individual and from smartlists. I go to inventory and find a computer, clicks edit and go to the Purchasing Info tab, clicks retries information from the GSX, the the error shows up. Looking at the casper site, they says that Can Access Web Services should be enough, but...... Dosent work Kristian PS: I got my account from our apple dealer, and we do not have the full GSX access, only as shown under Can check Coverage/Warranty Can access Repair History Can Access Web Services Nicholas, Lauren skrev f?lgende den 18.05.09 14.25: > Hmm... we just signed up for this and I simply entered our login information > into the JSS and I was good to go. At what point did you get the error? Just > when you tried to look up something? I assume you?ve logged into the GSX site > and had no problems? > - > lauren > > > ? > LAUREN NICHOLAS > User Support Analyst ? Hurd Campus > Center for Information Technology ? CIT > Moravian College > adjunct prof | graphic design & music > ph. 610 861 1633 > lpnicholas at moravian.edu > > > From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Kristian > Christensen > Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 5:03 AM > To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > Subject: [BULK] [Casper] GSX integration > Importance: Low > > I am having trouble getting the GSX integration to work as planed > > My GSX account has these setting: > > Can check Coverage/Warranty > Can access Repair History > Can Access Web Services > > It get an error like this every time i try to look something up > > org.apache.wsif.WSIFException: Cannot get part 'AuthenticateReturn'. Part was > not found in message > > Any idea whats wrong? > > Regards > > > Kristian Christensen > It-manager > > > DDB Oslo > Wergelandsveien 21 > P.O. Box 7084 Majorstuen > N-0306 Oslo > > Tlf dir: + 47 22 59 32 56 > Mobil: +47 92 20 12 34 > > www.ddb.no > > > > ****************************************************************************** > ***** > This e-mail is intended only for the named person or entity to which it is > addressed and contains valuable business information that is privileged, > confidential and/or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, > distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone > other than the intended recipient, or an employee, or agent responsible for > delivering the message to the intended recipient, is strictly prohibited. All > contents are the copyright property of the sender. If you are not the intended > recipient, you are nevertheless bound to respect the sender's worldwide legal > rights. We require that unintended recipients delete the e-mail and destroy > all electronic copies in their system, retaining no copies in any media. If > you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify us by > calling (+47) 22 59 32 00, or e-mail to it at oslo.ddb.com. We appreciate your > cooperation > > > > > ****************************************************************************** > ***** > This e-mail is intended only for the named person or entity to which it is > addressed and contains valuable business information that is privileged, > confidential and/or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, > distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone > other than the intended recipient, or an employee, or agent responsible for > delivering the message to the intended recipient, is strictly prohibited. All > contents are the copyright property of the sender. If you are not the intended > recipient, you are nevertheless bound to respect the sender's worldwide legal > rights. We require that unintended recipients delete the e-mail and destroy > all electronic copies in their system, retaining no copies in any media. If > you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify us by > calling (+47) 22 59 32 00, or e-mail to it at oslo.ddb.com. We appreciate your > cooperation > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/293ce2f5/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 605 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/293ce2f5/attachment.gif From kristian.christensen at oslo.ddb.com Mon May 18 07:02:39 2009 From: kristian.christensen at oslo.ddb.com (Kristian Christensen) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:02:39 +0200 Subject: [Casper] [BULK] GSX integration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I though that when i have access to "Can Access Web Services", that meant that Web Services was enabled? Is that wrong Kristian Julius Wilpon skrev f?lgende den 18.05.09 15.02: You have to contact GSX and make sure your account has webservices enabled. By default it's not. ________________________________ *********************************************************************************** This e-mail is intended only for the named person or entity to which it is addressed and contains valuable business information that is privileged, confidential and/or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee, or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is strictly prohibited. All contents are the copyright property of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, you are nevertheless bound to respect the sender's worldwide legal rights. We require that unintended recipients delete the e-mail and destroy all electronic copies in their system, retaining no copies in any media. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify us by calling (+47) 22 59 32 00, or e-mail to it at oslo.ddb.com. We appreciate your cooperation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/580be2d1/attachment.htm From julius.wilpon at pearson.com Mon May 18 07:40:39 2009 From: julius.wilpon at pearson.com (Julius Wilpon) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:40:39 -0400 Subject: [Casper] [BULK] GSX integration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Not to my knowledge. I thought the same, but ended up having to call Apple to get it enabled. From: Kristian Christensen Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:02:39 +0200 To: "casper at list.jamfsoftware.com" Subject: Re: [Casper] [BULK] GSX integration I though that when i have access to ?Can Access Web Services?, that meant that Web Services was enabled? Is that wrong Kristian Julius Wilpon skrev f?lgende den 18.05.09 15.02: > You have to contact GSX and make sure your account has webservices enabled. By > default it?s not. **************************************************************************** ******* This e-mail is intended only for the named person or entity to which it is addressed and contains valuable business information that is privileged, confidential and/or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee, or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is strictly prohibited. All contents are the copyright property of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, you are nevertheless bound to respect the sender's worldwide legal rights. We require that unintended recipients delete the e-mail and destroy all electronic copies in their system, retaining no copies in any media. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify us by calling (+47) 22 59 32 00, or e-mail to it at oslo.ddb.com. We appreciate your cooperation _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/bff578f3/attachment.htm From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Mon May 18 07:32:06 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:32:06 -0400 Subject: [Casper] I can't be the only one who... Message-ID: Finds Adobe enragingly difficult. Why.... Christ on a pony why, would they distribute a patch as an app?! I'm talking about the Reader 9.1.1 update. Does anyone know who, (i.e. An actual human being) we can complain to about these shenanigans? It defies logic. --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/e4dcb996/attachment.htm From John.Warming at pearson.com Mon May 18 07:52:02 2009 From: John.Warming at pearson.com (Warming, John T.) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:52:02 -0500 Subject: [Casper] I can't be the only one who... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3B1880B698CF3A498481F1C4BF40990C7CF4FE@USBGTMNNCSPMX01.NCSP.PEROOT.COM> John here, first time complainer... Agreed, I'm revamping Reader now for our distribution audience. If you find an Adobe body to chastise, do let me know. Cheers, John. John T. Warming * Sr. Desktop Support Technician Pearson Architecture, Engineering & Support *: 952-681-3687(O) | *: 612-369-2134(M) *: john.warming at pearson.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ________________________________ From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Nichols, Jared Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 9:32 AM To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] I can't be the only one who... Finds Adobe enragingly difficult. Why.... Christ on a pony why, would they distribute a patch as an app?! I'm talking about the Reader 9.1.1 update. Does anyone know who, (i.e. An actual human being) we can complain to about these shenanigans? It defies logic. --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/4f02954a/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 1376 bytes Desc: image001.jpg Url : http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/4f02954a/attachment.jpe From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Mon May 18 07:56:40 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:56:40 -0400 Subject: [Casper] I can't be the only one who... In-Reply-To: <3B1880B698CF3A498481F1C4BF40990C7CF4FE@USBGTMNNCSPMX01.NCSP.PEROOT.COM> Message-ID: Also the whole non-Universal nature of it irks the crap out of me too. What really can't be sorted out where they make it a Universal app?? j On 5/18/09 10:52 , "Warming, John T." wrote: John here, first time complainer... Agreed, I'm revamping Reader now for our distribution audience. If you find an Adobe body to chastise, do let me know. Cheers, John. John T. Warming n Sr. Desktop Support Technician Pearson Architecture, Engineering & Support (: 952-681-3687(O) | *: 612-369-2134(M) *: john.warming at pearson.com [cid:3325489000_606566] Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ________________________________ From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Nichols, Jared Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 9:32 AM To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] I can't be the only one who... Finds Adobe enragingly difficult. Why.... Christ on a pony why, would they distribute a patch as an app?! I'm talking about the Reader 9.1.1 update. Does anyone know who, (i.e. An actual human being) we can complain to about these shenanigans? It defies logic. --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/2dd08e9e/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1376 bytes Desc: image.jpg Url : http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/2dd08e9e/attachment.jpg From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Mon May 18 07:56:40 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:56:40 -0400 Subject: [Casper] I can't be the only one who... In-Reply-To: <3B1880B698CF3A498481F1C4BF40990C7CF4FE@USBGTMNNCSPMX01.NCSP.PEROOT.COM> Message-ID: Also the whole non-Universal nature of it irks the crap out of me too. What really can't be sorted out where they make it a Universal app?? j On 5/18/09 10:52 , "Warming, John T." wrote: John here, first time complainer... Agreed, I'm revamping Reader now for our distribution audience. If you find an Adobe body to chastise, do let me know. Cheers, John. John T. Warming n Sr. Desktop Support Technician Pearson Architecture, Engineering & Support (: 952-681-3687(O) | *: 612-369-2134(M) *: john.warming at pearson.com [cid:3325489000_606566] Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ________________________________ From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Nichols, Jared Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 9:32 AM To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] I can't be the only one who... Finds Adobe enragingly difficult. Why.... Christ on a pony why, would they distribute a patch as an app?! I'm talking about the Reader 9.1.1 update. Does anyone know who, (i.e. An actual human being) we can complain to about these shenanigans? It defies logic. --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/2dd08e9e/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1376 bytes Desc: image.jpg Url : http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/2dd08e9e/attachment-0001.jpg From john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us Mon May 18 09:10:40 2009 From: john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us (John Wetter) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 11:10:40 -0500 Subject: [Casper] [BULK] GSX integration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Julius is correct, unfortunately there is no automated way to do this other than to submit in the request form to add it. Not sure why, especially when they have that check box that seems like the same thing... John -- John Wetter Technology Support Administrator Educational Technology, Media & Information Services Hopkins Public Schools 952-988-5373 ________________________________ From: Julius Wilpon Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:40:39 -0500 To: Kristian Christensen , Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] [BULK] GSX integration Not to my knowledge. I thought the same, but ended up having to call Apple to get it enabled. ________________________________ From: Kristian Christensen Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:02:39 +0200 To: "casper at list.jamfsoftware.com" Subject: Re: [Casper] [BULK] GSX integration I though that when i have access to "Can Access Web Services", that meant that Web Services was enabled? Is that wrong Kristian Julius Wilpon skrev f?lgende den 18.05.09 15.02: You have to contact GSX and make sure your account has webservices enabled. By default it's not. ________________________________ *********************************************************************************** This e-mail is intended only for the named person or entity to which it is addressed and contains valuable business information that is privileged, confidential and/or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee, or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is strictly prohibited. All contents are the copyright property of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, you are nevertheless bound to respect the sender's worldwide legal rights. We require that unintended recipients delete the e-mail and destroy all electronic copies in their system, retaining no copies in any media. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify us by calling (+47) 22 59 32 00, or e-mail to it at oslo.ddb.com. We appreciate your cooperation ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/c9585cbe/attachment.htm From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Mon May 18 10:01:20 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 13:01:20 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Downloaded Packages Message-ID: Hi- I noticed on my test partition today that it was out of hard drive space. I thought that was a bit odd and went poking for things to delete and found that /Library/Application Support/JAMF/Downloads had a few packages in it that were quite large. Is this folder supposed to empty itself? Why would those packages stick around after they were installed? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090518/62b61404/attachment.html From Halvorson.Jason at mayo.edu Tue May 19 14:47:55 2009 From: Halvorson.Jason at mayo.edu (Jason Halvorson) Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 16:47:55 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Slow to shutdown when not connect to internal network. Message-ID: Multiple Macs are slow to shutdown when not connect to our internal network. The shutdown process takes about 60 seconds. If they are connect to our internal network, the shutdown process is quick. The reports from users come in waves. It's not entirely clear to me if it is related certain updates from Apple, but the problem is occurring again. I've compared the Console "All Messages" between a normal shutdown and the slow shut down. The normal shutdown occurred when the same system was connected to our internal network. The key difference that I see is the one minute pause when JAMF is attempting to check for logout policies: 5/19/09 3:39:09 PM com.apple.loginwindow[34] Checking for policies triggered by "logout" for user "mac"... 5/19/09 3:39:09 PM com.apple.loginwindow[34] Gathering Policy Information from https://jss.domain.edu:8443/... 5/19/09 3:40:09 PM com.apple.loginwindow[34] Could not connect to the JSS. Looking for cached policies... Besides exposing the jss to our DMZ, is there any other way to avoid this? Is it really the JAMF client that causing the delay on shutdown or it is something with Mac OS X 10.5.7? Jason From jstrauss at loyolahs.edu Wed May 20 08:11:12 2009 From: jstrauss at loyolahs.edu (Jeff Strauss) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 08:11:12 -0700 Subject: [Casper] OD Binding Message-ID: Has anyone had trouble using the OD binding script in the resource kit to securely bind machines to OD? I'm hard-coding the values in the script and am running it "After." The computer binds, but the machine account doesn't show up in Workgroup Manager. Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090520/dba98306/attachment.html From NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org Wed May 20 08:47:56 2009 From: NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org (NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 10:47:56 -0500 Subject: [Casper] OD Binding In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Jeff, I found that I need to put the address of the OD server in both variables for it to work. Strange, but that is what happens. I don't use authenticated binding. I also make this an "At Reboot" script because like AD, each matching/binding has to be unique. You might be able to have it work when imaging, just by changing to "at reboot" if you are pushing with Casper Remote, should just work as after on live machine. Not showing up in WGM. Usually, I toss out the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration which means I need to rename the computer and check the Network prefs. Then it shows up in WGM. This is probably the more drastic fix, but I don't know which file needs to be changed, deleted etc. Good luck, -Nathaniel Saint Paul Public Schools From: Jeff Strauss To: Casper List Date: 05/20/2009 10:02 AM Subject: [Casper] OD Binding Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com Has anyone had trouble using the OD binding script in the resource kit to securely bind machines to OD? I?m hard-coding the values in the script and am running it ?After.? The computer binds, but the machine account doesn?t show up in Workgroup Manager. Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090520/05df51e5/attachment.htm From jgreenaway at lblp.com Wed May 20 10:34:31 2009 From: jgreenaway at lblp.com (jgreenaway) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 10:34:31 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Casper Remote Script params problem. 6.0.1 Bug?? Message-ID: I think I found a bug in Casper Remote when passing script parameters. I'm using the BashExample.sh script here. Here is how to recreate the bug: 1. Launch Casper Remote and login to JSS 2. Select Computers -> any machine 3. Goto Scripts -> Select BashExample.sh 4. Fill in "parameter 1" with value of "paramA" 5. Important: Without selecting anything else and leaving focus on the "parameter 1" field click the "Go" or just enter. View the log when script is done running and notice that "parameter 1" does not have any value: [..........] Custom Parameter 1: Custom Parameter 2: Custom Parameter 3: [........] Now do the same steps as above setting "parameter 1" to "paramA" and "parameter 2" to "paramB". Again, leave the focus on the "parameter 2" field and submit the job. You will see something like this in your log: [..........] Custom Parameter 1: paramA Custom Parameter 2: Custom Parameter 3: [........] So this time you get the correct "parameter 1" value but "parameter 2" is blank. I previously thought that Casper Remote was just lopping off the last passed parameter but some more testing proved me wrong. Now I believe Casper Remote is only updating it's job payload/details as there are changes (or "un-focus" events) in the UI, and not as values are entered. This bug probably doesn't affect too many people because I could find no one else having it, but it's annoying. Oddly enough, if you save the job and run the .casper file you get the results you would expect. I have tested this on a handful of different machines and I get the same results. Can someone else out there confirm this bug using the above steps? Casper version : 6.01 Jim Greenaway Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: BashExample.sh Type: application/octet-stream Size: 1369 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090520/bb9e1211/attachment.obj From NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org Wed May 20 11:00:20 2009 From: NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org (NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 13:00:20 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Casper Remote Script params problem. 6.0.1 Bug?? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This might explain why my bindtoOD.sh script needs the custom IP address put in both Parameter1 and Parameter2. -Nathaniel From: "jgreenaway" To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Date: 05/20/2009 12:25 PM Subject: [Casper] Casper Remote Script params problem. 6.0.1 Bug?? Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com I think I found a bug in Casper Remote when passing script parameters. I'm using the BashExample.sh script here. Here is how to recreate the bug: 1. Launch Casper Remote and login to JSS 2. Select Computers -> any machine 3. Goto Scripts -> Select BashExample.sh 4. Fill in "parameter 1" with value of "paramA" 5. Important: Without selecting anything else and leaving focus on the "parameter 1" field click the "Go" or just enter. View the log when script is done running and notice that "parameter 1" does not have any value: [..........] Custom Parameter 1: Custom Parameter 2: Custom Parameter 3: [........] Now do the same steps as above setting "parameter 1" to "paramA" and "parameter 2" to "paramB". Again, leave the focus on the "parameter 2" field and submit the job. You will see something like this in your log: [..........] Custom Parameter 1: paramA Custom Parameter 2: Custom Parameter 3: [........] So this time you get the correct "parameter 1" value but "parameter 2" is blank. I previously thought that Casper Remote was just lopping off the last passed parameter but some more testing proved me wrong. Now I believe Casper Remote is only updating it's job payload/details as there are changes (or "un-focus" events) in the UI, and not as values are entered. This bug probably doesn't affect too many people because I could find no one else having it, but it's annoying. Oddly enough, if you save the job and run the .casper file you get the results you would expect. I have tested this on a handful of different machines and I get the same results. Can someone else out there confirm this bug using the above steps? Casper version : 6.01 Jim Greenaway Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes [attachment "BashExample.sh" deleted by NATHANIEL LINDLEY/spps] _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090520/b204cc3c/attachment.htm From jstrauss at loyolahs.edu Wed May 20 12:27:24 2009 From: jstrauss at loyolahs.edu (Jeff Strauss) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 12:27:24 -0700 Subject: [Casper] ImageBootCamp.sh Message-ID: I'm receiving the following error when trying to run the imageBootCamp.sh during imgaing: The script does not exist in the Scripts folder. Has anyone seen that? Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090520/ef6c54e1/attachment.html From greg.lopez at wunderman.com Wed May 20 16:02:55 2009 From: greg.lopez at wunderman.com (Gregory Lopez) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 16:02:55 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Can't SSH into 10.5 macs - Port 22 Connection Refused Message-ID: I posted this problem a few months back and found a temporary solution which works but really hamstrings my package pushing capabilities. Hoping now to find a solution. The problem is that I cannot SSH into most (but not all) of my 10.5.6 macs on the floor. That includes localhost on my mac. All 10.5.6 macs have had NAV 11 installed. I?ve uninstalled NAV on some macs during troubleshooting but I am still not able to connect via SSH. The temporary workaround has been to repair disk permissions in Disk Utility and reboot. Afterward, I am able to SSH into the machine. However, I am denied the next day when I try to SSH into the mac. Here is a log of me trying to SSH into localhost on my mac: SEA-LOPEZG:~ lopezgreg$ ssh -vvv localhost OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to localhost [::1] port 22. debug1: connect to address ::1 port 22: Connection refused debug1: Connecting to localhost [fe80::1%lo0] port 22. debug1: connect to address fe80::1%lo0 port 22: Connection refused debug1: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port 22. debug1: connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 22: Connection refused ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused Interestingly, there is one 10.5.6 mac running NAV 11 that I am able to SSH into. Any ideas as to why the connection is refusing on port 22? G Lo -- Gregory Lopez Sr. Mac/Network Analyst -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090520/7433e76b/attachment.html From cmyers at uclan.ac.uk Wed May 20 22:52:47 2009 From: cmyers at uclan.ac.uk (Criss Myers) Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 06:52:47 +0100 Subject: [Casper] Casper Remote Script params problem. 6.0.1 Bug?? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <524585DE-7831-46A7-829D-7CB77A965160@uclan.ac.uk> Yes I had the same problem and found the same solution entering prameter 2 , I sent it to the list but dunno if anyone else noticed the error On 20 May 2009, at 18:34, "jgreenaway" wrote: > I think I found a bug in Casper Remote when passing script > parameters. I'm using the > BashExample.sh script here. Here is how to recreate the bug: > > 1. Launch Casper Remote and login to JSS > 2. Select Computers -> any machine > 3. Goto Scripts -> Select BashExample.sh > 4. Fill in "parameter 1" with value of "paramA" > 5. Important: Without selecting anything else and leaving focus on > the "parameter 1" field click > the "Go" or just enter. > > View the log when script is done running and notice that "parameter > 1" does not have any value: > [..........] > Custom Parameter 1: > Custom Parameter 2: > Custom Parameter 3: > [........] > > Now do the same steps as above setting "parameter 1" to "paramA" and > "parameter 2" to "paramB". > Again, leave the focus on the "parameter 2" field and submit the > job. You will see something like > this in your log: > [..........] > Custom Parameter 1: paramA > Custom Parameter 2: > Custom Parameter 3: > [........] > > So this time you get the correct "parameter 1" value but "parameter > 2" is blank. I previously > thought that Casper Remote was just lopping off the last passed > parameter but some more testing > proved me wrong. > > Now I believe Casper Remote is only updating it's job payload/ > details as there are changes (or > "un-focus" events) in the UI, and not as values are entered. This > bug probably doesn't affect too > many people because I could find no one else having it, but it's > annoying. Oddly enough, if you > save the job and run the .casper file you get the results you would > expect. > > I have tested this on a handful of different machines and I get the > same results. Can someone else > out there confirm this bug using the above steps? > > Casper version : 6.01 > Jim Greenaway > Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Thu May 21 04:26:59 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 07:26:59 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Casper Remote Script params problem. 6.0.1 Bug?? In-Reply-To: <524585DE-7831-46A7-829D-7CB77A965160@uclan.ac.uk> Message-ID: I don't know if it's related, but we had a few macs out of the box (10.5.4?) a while back that couldn't be ssh'd into. Turns out if you cleared the ipfw rules it was fine (sudo ipfw flush). Not sure why it was this way, but it worked every time we ran into that. j On 5/21/09 01:52 , "Criss Myers" wrote: Yes I had the same problem and found the same solution entering prameter 2 , I sent it to the list but dunno if anyone else noticed the error On 20 May 2009, at 18:34, "jgreenaway" wrote: > I think I found a bug in Casper Remote when passing script > parameters. I'm using the > BashExample.sh script here. Here is how to recreate the bug: > > 1. Launch Casper Remote and login to JSS > 2. Select Computers -> any machine > 3. Goto Scripts -> Select BashExample.sh > 4. Fill in "parameter 1" with value of "paramA" > 5. Important: Without selecting anything else and leaving focus on > the "parameter 1" field click > the "Go" or just enter. > > View the log when script is done running and notice that "parameter > 1" does not have any value: > [..........] > Custom Parameter 1: > Custom Parameter 2: > Custom Parameter 3: > [........] > > Now do the same steps as above setting "parameter 1" to "paramA" and > "parameter 2" to "paramB". > Again, leave the focus on the "parameter 2" field and submit the > job. You will see something like > this in your log: > [..........] > Custom Parameter 1: paramA > Custom Parameter 2: > Custom Parameter 3: > [........] > > So this time you get the correct "parameter 1" value but "parameter > 2" is blank. I previously > thought that Casper Remote was just lopping off the last passed > parameter but some more testing > proved me wrong. > > Now I believe Casper Remote is only updating it's job payload/ > details as there are changes (or > "un-focus" events) in the UI, and not as values are entered. This > bug probably doesn't affect too > many people because I could find no one else having it, but it's > annoying. Oddly enough, if you > save the job and run the .casper file you get the results you would > expect. > > I have tested this on a handful of different machines and I get the > same results. Can someone else > out there confirm this bug using the above steps? > > Casper version : 6.01 > Jim Greenaway > Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090521/1b8b8643/attachment.html From lopez at embl.de Fri May 22 01:48:09 2009 From: lopez at embl.de (Carmelo Lopez) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 10:48:09 +0200 Subject: [Casper] Recon on 10.4.11 Message-ID: Dear all I encounter a little problem with some imacs 10.4.11. When I run recon as admin, I cannot click Submit since is grayout anybody has a solution for this thanks in advance cheers Carmelo Lopez Portilla ITS EMBL Heidelberg From lopez at embl.de Fri May 22 05:36:26 2009 From: lopez at embl.de (Carmelo Lopez) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 14:36:26 +0200 Subject: [Casper] wake macs via network Message-ID: <1F26B263-3852-4D2B-BAFA-7C48EC462A53@embl.de> Dear all, I would like to be able via Casper Policies to power on computers, let mac start (with a delay) and then make a dd or a winclone for deploying a new image of linux or windows. I will have a triple boot with rEfit has anybody look into this? thanks in advance Carmelo Lopez Portilla ITS EMBL Heidelberg From lopez at embl.de Fri May 22 06:11:45 2009 From: lopez at embl.de (Carmelo Lopez) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 15:11:45 +0200 Subject: [Casper] Linux deployment Message-ID: <553A27CF-B908-4F0A-871D-BA1DAAAA60B6@embl.de> Dear all, have you ever tried to deploy Linux image back to a mac ? What do you use to make the image of the linux partition? Would "dd" be too slow for 40 machines to be deployed at the same time on a 1Gpbs network enviroment? My main goal is to have iMacs for courses and forget about the pc's. So basically I would have them all with a triple boot (Mac, windows and linux) and then redeploy the windows (via winclone) or Linux (via dd??) images using casper policies (and various scripts) so I can redeploy the latest up to day images of both systems For windows I have no problem, the scrips inside Winclone are doing the job,but for linux I think ""dd" could be a little bit too much (since it copies sector by sector, even empty sectors). Thanks in advance cheers Carmelo Lopez Portilla ITS EMBL Heidelberg email: lopez at embl.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090522/719e2ad9/attachment.html From tlarki at kckps.org Fri May 22 06:46:48 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 08:46:48 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Can't SSH into 10.5 macs - Port 22 Connection Refused In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A166678.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Sounds like remote log in is disabled, which allows ssh connections and is different from remote desktop connections. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Gregory Lopez 05/20/09 6:02 PM >>> I posted this problem a few months back and found a temporary solution which works but really hamstrings my package pushing capabilities. Hoping now to find a solution. The problem is that I cannot SSH into most (but not all) of my 10.5.6 macs on the floor. That includes localhost on my mac. All 10.5.6 macs have had NAV 11 installed. I?ve uninstalled NAV on some macs during troubleshooting but I am still not able to connect via SSH. The temporary workaround has been to repair disk permissions in Disk Utility and reboot. Afterward, I am able to SSH into the machine. However, I am denied the next day when I try to SSH into the mac. Here is a log of me trying to SSH into localhost on my mac: SEA-LOPEZG:~ lopezgreg$ ssh -vvv localhost OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to localhost [::1] port 22. debug1: connect to address ::1 port 22: Connection refused debug1: Connecting to localhost [fe80::1%lo0] port 22. debug1: connect to address fe80::1%lo0 port 22: Connection refused debug1: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port 22. debug1: connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 22: Connection refused ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused Interestingly, there is one 10.5.6 mac running NAV 11 that I am able to SSH into. Any ideas as to why the connection is refusing on port 22? G Lo -- Gregory Lopez Sr. Mac/Network Analyst -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090522/179be98b/attachment.htm From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Fri May 22 06:55:11 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 09:55:11 -0400 Subject: [Casper] wake macs via network In-Reply-To: <1F26B263-3852-4D2B-BAFA-7C48EC462A53@embl.de> Message-ID: I think the main thing you'll run into is actually waking the Macs up. There are some utilities for waking Macs (including Apple Remote Desktop) but many of the products depend on at least 1 mac on the target subnet being awake. Also, magic packets generally won't traverse routers (unless they're configured for it) which depending on your network may or may not be a problem. I really wish Apple would get more on board with power management with the Intel vPro. j On 5/22/09 08:36 , "Carmelo Lopez" wrote: Dear all, I would like to be able via Casper Policies to power on computers, let mac start (with a delay) and then make a dd or a winclone for deploying a new image of linux or windows. I will have a triple boot with rEfit has anybody look into this? thanks in advance Carmelo Lopez Portilla ITS EMBL Heidelberg _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090522/1b5bdb88/attachment.htm From jeff.johnson at glendale.k12.wi.us Fri May 22 07:13:47 2009 From: jeff.johnson at glendale.k12.wi.us (Jeff Johnson) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 09:13:47 -0500 Subject: [Casper] 10.5.7 server Message-ID: Wondering if anyone has upgraded their Casper/JSS server to 10.5.7 yet and, if so, if you did that via SWU or by manually downloading and installing the upgrade. Thank you - and Happy Friday! Jeff Johnson Technology Coordinator Glendale-River Hills School District Glendale, WI 53209 jeff.johnson at glendale.k12.wi.us From lopez at embl.de Fri May 22 07:42:24 2009 From: lopez at embl.de (Carmelo Lopez Portilla) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:42:24 +0200 Subject: [Casper] 10.5.7 server In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I had to update since my server admin/netboot was geayout and 10.5.7 fixed this. I used a download, since I had troubles on normal iMacs with Swu So far stable. Cheers Carmelo Lopez Portilla Please consider the enviroment before printing this e-mail. El 22/05/2009, a las 16:13, "Jeff Johnson" escribi?: > Wondering if anyone has upgraded their Casper/JSS server to 10.5.7 yet > and, if so, if you did that via SWU or by manually downloading and > installing the upgrade. > > Thank you - and Happy Friday! > > Jeff Johnson > Technology Coordinator > Glendale-River Hills School District > Glendale, WI 53209 > jeff.johnson at glendale.k12.wi.us > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org Fri May 22 07:49:33 2009 From: aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org (Brad Rellinger) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 10:49:33 -0400 Subject: [Casper] 10.5.7 server In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5596f1620905220749u1703b2c6ja91d4933d0439ce@mail.gmail.com> Kinda. I moved my JSS install over to a new server with 10.5.7 already on it. No problems so far.-- Brad Rellinger Technology Specialist Anthony Wayne Local Schools K-12 aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Jeff Johnson < jeff.johnson at glendale.k12.wi.us> wrote: > Wondering if anyone has upgraded their Casper/JSS server to 10.5.7 yet > and, if so, if you did that via SWU or by manually downloading and > installing the upgrade. > > Thank you - and Happy Friday! > > Jeff Johnson > Technology Coordinator > Glendale-River Hills School District > Glendale, WI 53209 > jeff.johnson at glendale.k12.wi.us > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090522/7a7767d1/attachment.htm From lopez at embl.de Fri May 22 08:06:12 2009 From: lopez at embl.de (Carmelo Lopez Portilla) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 17:06:12 +0200 Subject: [Casper] wake macs via network In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: So far my network won't be a problem. But I will try ard Thanks Carmelo Lopez Portilla Please consider the enviroment before printing this e-mail. El 22/05/2009, a las 15:55, "Nichols, Jared" escribi?: > I think the main thing you?ll run into is actually waking the Macs u > p. There are some utilities for waking Macs (including Apple Remote > Desktop) but many of the products depend on at least 1 mac on the t > arget subnet being awake. Also, magic packets generally won?t trave > rse routers (unless they?re configured for it) which depending on yo > ur network may or may not be a problem. > > I really wish Apple would get more on board with power management > with the Intel vPro. > > j > > > On 5/22/09 08:36 , "Carmelo Lopez" wrote: > > Dear all, > > I would like to be able via Casper Policies to power on computers, let > mac start (with a delay) and then make a dd or a winclone for > deploying a new image of linux or windows. > I will have a triple boot with rEfit > > has anybody look into this? > > thanks in advance > > Carmelo Lopez Portilla > > ITS EMBL Heidelberg > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > --- > Jared F. Nichols > Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations > Information Services Department > MIT Lincoln Laboratory > 244 Wood Street > Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 > 781.981.5436 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090522/b8256756/attachment.html From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Fri May 22 09:37:58 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 12:37:58 -0400 Subject: [Casper] scripting.. Message-ID: Hi, I'm trying to get my script (which works locally) to deploy over Casper and it's not. I'm trying to determine whether there are certain directories present and, if there are, run a command to install an item into the dock. I have used the built-in parameter substitution and I've tried it without. In most cases, the script appears to run but does nothing. This is a sample of the variations I've tried thus far. # Application variables computerName=$2 someapp1=$2/Applications/Something\ I\ Need\ To\ Deploy someapp2="$2/Applications/Something" someapp3="$computerName/Applications/Something" Here is the actual script. #!/bin/sh # Applications kid_pix="/Applications/Kid Pix Deluxe 4" ttl="/Applications/Type To Learn 3" kidspiration="/Applications/Kidspiration 2" inspiration="/Applications/Inspiration 8" if [ -e $kid_pix ]; then defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString/Applications/Kid Pix Deluxe 4/Kid Pix Deluxe 4/_CFURLStringType0" fi if [ -e $kidspiration ]; then defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString/Applications/Kidspiration 2/Kidspiration 2.app/_CFURLStringType0" fi if [ -e $inspiration ]; then defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString/Applications/Inspiration 8/Inspiration 8.app/_CFURLStringType0" fi if [ -e $ttl ]; then defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString/Applications/Type To Learn 3/Type To Learn 3/_CFURLStringType0" fi killall Dock exit 0 John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090522/eac520f3/attachment.htm From charlie.butters at shopko.com Fri May 22 13:57:56 2009 From: charlie.butters at shopko.com (Charlie Butters) Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 15:57:56 -0500 Subject: [Casper] scripting Message-ID: John, One thing you will definitely need to do is to put double quotes around any variable that has a value that contains spaces. So for instance, in your example for kid_pix, you used double quotes when you assigned the value to kid_pix, but not when you referenced it in your if statement. The if statement will fail unless you change it to: if [ -e ?$kid_pix? ]; then Not sure if that will entirely solve the problem, but it is probably part of it. Be sure to use double quotes and not single quotes. Charlie ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 12:37:58 -0400 From: "John McLaughlin" Subject: [Casper] scripting.. To: "Casper List" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi, I'm trying to get my script (which works locally) to deploy over Casper and it's not. I'm trying to determine whether there are certain directories present and, if there are, run a command to install an item into the dock. I have used the built-in parameter substitution and I've tried it without. In most cases, the script appears to run but does nothing. This is a sample of the variations I've tried thus far. # Application variables computerName=$2 someapp1=$2/Applications/Something\ I\ Need\ To\ Deploy someapp2="$2/Applications/Something" someapp3="$computerName/Applications/Something" Here is the actual script. #!/bin/sh # Applications kid_pix="/Applications/Kid Pix Deluxe 4" ttl="/Applications/Type To Learn 3" kidspiration="/Applications/Kidspiration 2" inspiration="/Applications/Inspiration 8" if [ -e $kid_pix ]; then defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString /Applications/Kid Pix Deluxe 4/Kid Pix Deluxe 4/_CFURLStringType0" fi if [ -e $kidspiration ]; then defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString /Applications/Kidspiration 2/Kidspiration 2.app/_CFURLStringType0 " fi if [ -e $inspiration ]; then defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString /Applications/Inspiration 8/Inspiration 8.app/_CFURLStringType0 " fi if [ -e $ttl ]; then defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString /Applications/Type To Learn 3/Type To Learn 3/_CFURLStringType0" fi killall Dock exit 0 John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090522/c6920df0/attachment.htm From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Tue May 26 06:15:49 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:15:49 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Migration Message-ID: Hi- I've gotten a brandy new Xserve in house (oh she's a beast) and will be planning server migration soon. I've read through the migration bit in the documentation and it seems straightforward enough, though I have two questions: 1. Is there anything "out of the ordinary" that people ran into during a migration that they weren't expecting? 2. I currently employ a two server strategy - one for the JSS, one for the SUS - but the new server is certainly beefy enough to do double duty. Ideally, I'd like to go "big bang" and get it all done in one fell swoop, reassigning everyone's SUS to the new JSS. Advisable? Pros/Cons? FYI, the JSS uses DNS rather than direct IP so cutover is a breeze. j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/160184d3/attachment.htm From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Tue May 26 06:45:42 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 08:45:42 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Migration In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Though we haven't exactly "migrated" from one server to a different one, we have backed up all data and the JSS and wiped current servers for a fresh install. And in our experiences here if you make sure and back everything up properly and per JAMF's instruction you should have no issues. What took us the longest was zeroing the drives and re-installing the OS. The casper piece went quickly and smoothly. Too smoothly in fact, I spent the next couple days digging for issues that I never found. Also out of paranoia we took screenshots of all of our settings and printed a list of all of our policies just in case something went wrong we'd at least know what was set before hand to redo it. I'm pretty sure we never looked at them. Hopefully your experience goes as well. Good luck! -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Nichols, Jared Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:16 AM To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] Migration Hi- I've gotten a brandy new Xserve in house (oh she's a beast) and will be planning server migration soon. I've read through the migration bit in the documentation and it seems straightforward enough, though I have two questions: 1. Is there anything "out of the ordinary" that people ran into during a migration that they weren't expecting? 2. I currently employ a two server strategy - one for the JSS, one for the SUS - but the new server is certainly beefy enough to do double duty. Ideally, I'd like to go "big bang" and get it all done in one fell swoop, reassigning everyone's SUS to the new JSS. Advisable? Pros/Cons? FYI, the JSS uses DNS rather than direct IP so cutover is a breeze. j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/ca4f9213/attachment.html From tlarki at kckps.org Tue May 26 06:51:39 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 08:51:39 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Migration In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A1BAD9B.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> I just did a full export of my old JSS and then imported on the new server last summer, pretty painless procedure to be honest. >>> "Nichols, Jared" 05/26/09 8:15 AM >>> Hi- I?ve gotten a brandy new Xserve in house (oh she?s a beast) and will be planning server migration soon. I?ve read through the migration bit in the documentation and it seems straightforward enough, though I have two questions: Is there anything ?out of the ordinary? that people ran into during a migration that they weren?t expecting? I currently employ a two server strategy ? one for the JSS, one for the SUS ? but the new server is certainly beefy enough to do double duty. Ideally, I?d like to go ?big bang? and get it all done in one fell swoop, reassigning everyone?s SUS to the new JSS. Advisable? Pros/Cons? FYI, the JSS uses DNS rather than direct IP so cutover is a breeze. j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/b268cf6f/attachment.html From Halvorson.Jason at mayo.edu Tue May 26 06:52:07 2009 From: Halvorson.Jason at mayo.edu (Jason Halvorson) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 08:52:07 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Migration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: We migrated from a PowerMac G5 to a Xserve with JAMF 5.1. Ditto to what Dustin mentioned: ?The casper piece went quickly and smoothly. Too smoothly in fact, I spent the next couple days digging for issues that I never found. Also out of paranoia we took screenshots of all of our settings and printed a list of all of our policies just in case something went wrong we?d at least know what was set before hand to redo it.? Jason From: "Dorey, Dustin" Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 08:45:42 -0500 To: "Nichols, Jared" , Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] Migration Though we haven?t exactly ?migrated? from one server to a different one, we have backed up all data and the JSS and wiped current servers for a fresh install. And in our experiences here if you make sure and back everything up properly and per JAMF?s instruction you should have no issues. What took us the longest was zeroing the drives and re-installing the OS. The casper piece went quickly and smoothly. Too smoothly in fact, I spent the next couple days digging for issues that I never found. Also out of paranoia we took screenshots of all of our settings and printed a list of all of our policies just in case something went wrong we?d at least know what was set before hand to redo it. I?m pretty sure we never looked at them. Hopefully your experience goes as well. Good luck! -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Nichols, Jared Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:16 AM To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] Migration Hi- I?ve gotten a brandy new Xserve in house (oh she?s a beast) and will be planning server migration soon. I?ve read through the migration bit in the documentation and it seems straightforward enough, though I have two questions: 1. Is there anything ?out of the ordinary? that people ran into during a migration that they weren?t expecting? 2. I currently employ a two server strategy ? one for the JSS, one for the SUS ? but the new server is certainly beefy enough to do double duty. Ideally, I?d like to go ?big bang? and get it all done in one fell swoop, reassigning everyone?s SUS to the new JSS. Advisable? Pros/Cons? FYI, the JSS uses DNS rather than direct IP so cutover is a breeze. j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/6e3a9003/attachment.htm From jeff.johnson at glendale.k12.wi.us Tue May 26 07:22:56 2009 From: jeff.johnson at glendale.k12.wi.us (Jeff Johnson) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:22:56 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Migration In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Migrated from a G5 xServe (10.4.11) running Casper 5.1 to an Intel xServe (10.5.x) running Casper 6 last summer - no problems. Jeff Glendale, WI Jason Halvorson on May 26, 2009 at 8:52 AM -0500 wrote: >We migrated from a PowerMac G5 to a Xserve with JAMF 5.1. Ditto to what >Dustin mentioned: >?The casper piece went quickly and smoothly. Too smoothly in fact, I >spent the next couple days digging for issues that I never found. Also >out of paranoia we took screenshots of all of our settings and printed a >list of all of our policies just in case something went wrong we?d at >least know what was set before hand to redo it.? > >Jason From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Tue May 26 07:43:03 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:43:03 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Migration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: As everyone else has stated already it just works. I migrated from our PowerPC Xserves to our new Intel based Xserves with no issues. We also have DNS for the SUS so we don't need to change anything but the DNS entry point for a change in SUS servers as well. My two servers are quite large, but I still separate out services, JSS on one and Netboot, ASUS and VMs on the other. It's also my backup replication point. Life is good. Craig E On 5/26/09 8:15 AM, "Nichols, Jared" wrote: Hi- I've gotten a brandy new Xserve in house (oh she's a beast) and will be planning server migration soon. I've read through the migration bit in the documentation and it seems straightforward enough, though I have two questions: 1. Is there anything "out of the ordinary" that people ran into during a migration that they weren't expecting? 2. I currently employ a two server strategy - one for the JSS, one for the SUS - but the new server is certainly beefy enough to do double duty. Ideally, I'd like to go "big bang" and get it all done in one fell swoop, reassigning everyone's SUS to the new JSS. Advisable? Pros/Cons? FYI, the JSS uses DNS rather than direct IP so cutover is a breeze. j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/19ecbff0/attachment.html From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Tue May 26 07:49:28 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 10:49:28 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Sidebar mounted disks Message-ID: Hi- Are people having problems with disk images not being removed from users' sidebars when they're done deploying? They're not mounted but stick in the sidebar. The only way to get rid of it seems to be by dragging it off the sidebar. I'd like to have no evidence that I was there :) --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/39bd42e4/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Picture 2.tiff Type: application/octet-stream Size: 495834 bytes Desc: Picture 2.tiff Url : http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/39bd42e4/attachment-0001.obj From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Tue May 26 07:57:23 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:57:23 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Sidebar mounted disks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I've seen this happen with software installs or updates from policies. The mounted disk image still shows in the left part of the finder window. Haven't seen if this has carried over into 10.5.7 yet. Craig E On 5/26/09 9:49 AM, "Nichols, Jared" wrote: Hi- Are people having problems with disk images not being removed from users' sidebars when they're done deploying? They're not mounted but stick in the sidebar. The only way to get rid of it seems to be by dragging it off the sidebar. I'd like to have no evidence that I was there :) --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/564d4726/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Tue May 26 08:02:21 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 10:02:21 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Sidebar mounted disks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A1BBE2C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> I've seen it for sure, and it is a small problem I have just been living with since I have had other bigger problems to deal with. >>> "Ernst, Craig S." 05/26/09 9:57 AM >>> I?ve seen this happen with software installs or updates from policies. The mounted disk image still shows in the left part of the finder window. Haven?t seen if this has carried over into 10.5.7 yet. Craig E On 5/26/09 9:49 AM, "Nichols, Jared" wrote: Hi- Are people having problems with disk images not being removed from users? sidebars when they?re done deploying? They?re not mounted but stick in the sidebar. The only way to get rid of it seems to be by dragging it off the sidebar. I?d like to have no evidence that I was there :) --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/f960dfde/attachment.html From jstrauss at loyolahs.edu Tue May 26 10:48:49 2009 From: jstrauss at loyolahs.edu (Jeff Strauss) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 10:48:49 -0700 Subject: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing Message-ID: Anyone using a 10.5.7 image bound to OD using managed printers? I'm getting an authentication error and can't log into machines. Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/e7eaa689/attachment.html From aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org Tue May 26 10:57:38 2009 From: aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org (Brad Rellinger) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 13:57:38 -0400 Subject: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5596f1620905261057t4b04454dx2f580aa39bd55e45@mail.gmail.com> Did you happen to manually modify any of the cups files in the image (cupsd.conf)? They made some significant changes to managed printers in 10.5.7. -- Brad Rellinger Technology Specialist Anthony Wayne Local Schools K-12 aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jeff Strauss wrote: > Anyone using a 10.5.7 image bound to OD using managed printers? I?m > getting an authentication error and can?t log into machines. > * > Jeffrey A. Strauss > *Department of Educational Technology > *Systems Administrator > *Loyola High School of Los Angeles > 1901 Venice Blvd. > Los Angeles, Ca 90006 > (213) 381-5121 x265 > > ? Apple Certified Support Professional > ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator > > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/5457f9a9/attachment.htm From NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org Tue May 26 11:05:01 2009 From: NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org (NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 13:05:01 -0500 Subject: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing In-Reply-To: <5596f1620905261057t4b04454dx2f580aa39bd55e45@mail.gmail.com> References: <5596f1620905261057t4b04454dx2f580aa39bd55e45@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Are the computers PPC based and not Intel? There was a issue with PPC updates to 10.5.7 with /etc/authorization and managed clients. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2762 Also, non-admin printing support in 10.5.7 http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2762 -Nathaniel SPPS From: Brad Rellinger To: Casper List Date: 05/26/2009 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com Did you happen to manually modify any of the cups files in the image (cupsd.conf)? They made some significant changes to managed printers in 10.5.7. -- Brad Rellinger Technology Specialist Anthony Wayne Local Schools K-12 aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jeff Strauss wrote: Anyone using a 10.5.7 image bound to OD using managed printers? I?m getting an authentication error and can?t log into machines. Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/99a70fa5/attachment.html From jstrauss at loyolahs.edu Tue May 26 11:16:21 2009 From: jstrauss at loyolahs.edu (Jeff Strauss) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:16:21 -0700 Subject: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Intel machines... All of 'em. I'll check out those KB articles. Thanks :) On 5/26/09 11:05 AM, "NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org" wrote: Are the computers PPC based and not Intel? There was a issue with PPC updates to 10.5.7 with /etc/authorization and managed clients. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2762 Also, non-admin printing support in 10.5.7 http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2762 -Nathaniel SPPS From: Brad Rellinger To: Casper List Date: 05/26/2009 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com ________________________________ Did you happen to manually modify any of the cups files in the image (cupsd.conf)? They made some significant changes to managed printers in 10.5.7. -- Brad Rellinger Technology Specialist Anthony Wayne Local Schools K-12 aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jeff Strauss > wrote: Anyone using a 10.5.7 image bound to OD using managed printers? I'm getting an authentication error and can't log into machines. Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/044ca244/attachment.htm From jstrauss at loyolahs.edu Tue May 26 11:38:16 2009 From: jstrauss at loyolahs.edu (Jeff Strauss) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:38:16 -0700 Subject: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing In-Reply-To: <5596f1620905261057t4b04454dx2f580aa39bd55e45@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: I haven't made any modifications whatsoever. This was a clean 10.5 install from disc, then update to 10.5.7, then turned into deployable image. I've been reading things here and there about /etc/authorization modifications, but I haven't done any research past that yet. On 5/26/09 10:57 AM, "Brad Rellinger" wrote: Did you happen to manually modify any of the cups files in the image (cupsd.conf)? They made some significant changes to managed printers in 10.5.7. -- Brad Rellinger Technology Specialist Anthony Wayne Local Schools K-12 aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jeff Strauss wrote: Anyone using a 10.5.7 image bound to OD using managed printers? I'm getting an authentication error and can't log into machines. Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/51971a51/attachment.html From rharter at uwsp.edu Tue May 26 12:00:44 2009 From: rharter at uwsp.edu (Ryan Harter) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 14:00:44 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Sidebar mounted disks In-Reply-To: <4A1BBE2C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <4A1BBE2C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <66ABBBBA-73CE-45C8-843C-960C257C44D8@uwsp.edu> I've actually reported this to JAMF and they told me that it is an issue with the Finder not refreshing the Sidebar cache. I've just been living with it, but I wonder if there is a command line way to have the sidebar reload the cache. Also, I'm not sure exactly how they are mounting the disks, I would assume with the mount command launched from the jamf binary because why wouldn't they just use the tools already there. Anyway, the mount command has a "-nobrowse" option which hides the mounted item from the finder completely. I think this would be a good option because I don't even want users to see the mounted disk anywhere. Ryan Harter UW - Stevens Point Workstation Developer 715.346.2716 Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu On May 26, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Thomas Larkin wrote: > I've seen it for sure, and it is a small problem I have just been > living with since I have had other bigger problems to deal with. > > >>> "Ernst, Craig S." 05/26/09 9:57 AM >>> > I?ve seen this happen with software installs or updates from > policies. The mounted disk image still shows in the left part of the > finder window. > > Haven?t seen if this has carried over into 10.5.7 yet. > > Craig E > > On 5/26/09 9:49 AM, "Nichols, Jared" wrote: > > Hi- > > Are people having problems with disk images not being removed from > users? sidebars when they?re done deploying? They?re not mounted > but stick in the sidebar. The only way to get rid of it seems to be > by dragging it off the sidebar. I?d like to have no evidence that I > was there :) > > > --- > Jared F. Nichols > Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations > Information Services Department > MIT Lincoln Laboratory > 244 Wood Street > Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 > 781.981.5436 > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/6e930a77/attachment.html From detroye1 at apple.com Tue May 26 12:03:17 2009 From: detroye1 at apple.com (John DeTroye) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 13:03:17 -0600 Subject: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <860DDC85-37DF-45EB-8602-59A818BD0622@apple.com> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3511 -- John DeTroye Email: johnd at apple.com Sr. Consulting Engineer Systems Management Specialist Apple - Education iChat: johnd at mac.com Systems Management Guide - http://www.apple.com/education/go/sysmgmt/ Tips and Tricks Docs - http://web.me.com/johnd/ -- On May 26, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Jeff Strauss wrote: > I haven?t made any modifications whatsoever. This was a clean 10.5 > install from disc, then update to 10.5.7, then turned into > deployable image. I?ve been reading things here and there about /etc/ > authorization modifications, but I haven?t done any research past > that yet. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/c5cd955d/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Tue May 26 12:06:55 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 14:06:55 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Sidebar mounted disks In-Reply-To: <66ABBBBA-73CE-45C8-843C-960C257C44D8@uwsp.edu> References: <4A1BBE2C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> <66ABBBBA-73CE-45C8-843C-960C257C44D8@uwsp.edu> Message-ID: <4A1BF77E.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Eh, you could try the good old killall finder as a post command after a package is installed. Not sure how that would affect the end user, could get interesting though for sure! >>> Ryan Harter 05/26/09 2:00 PM >>> I've actually reported this to JAMF and they told me that it is an issue with the Finder not refreshing the Sidebar cache. I've just been living with it, but I wonder if there is a command line way to have the sidebar reload the cache. Also, I'm not sure exactly how they are mounting the disks, I would assume with the mount command launched from the jamf binary because why wouldn't they just use the tools already there. Anyway, the mount command has a "-nobrowse" option which hides the mounted item from the finder completely. I think this would be a good option because I don't even want users to see the mounted disk anywhere. Ryan Harter UW - Stevens Point Workstation Developer 715.346.2716 Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu On May 26, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Thomas Larkin wrote: I've seen it for sure, and it is a small problem I have just been living with since I have had other bigger problems to deal with. >>> "Ernst, Craig S." 05/26/09 9:57 AM >>> I?ve seen this happen with software installs or updates from policies. The mounted disk image still shows in the left part of the finder window. Haven?t seen if this has carried over into 10.5.7 yet. Craig E On 5/26/09 9:49 AM, "Nichols, Jared" wrote: Hi- Are people having problems with disk images not being removed from users? sidebars when they?re done deploying? They?re not mounted but stick in the sidebar. The only way to get rid of it seems to be by dragging it off the sidebar. I?d like to have no evidence that I was there :) --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/c19c9fa0/attachment.html From rharter at uwsp.edu Tue May 26 12:08:57 2009 From: rharter at uwsp.edu (Ryan Harter) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 14:08:57 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Sidebar mounted disks In-Reply-To: <4A1BF77E.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <4A1BBE2C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> <66ABBBBA-73CE-45C8-843C-960C257C44D8@uwsp.edu> <4A1BF77E.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <9DF713CF-6EAC-4AD6-82DD-31B6C2D69118@uwsp.edu> I've tried this before and it does seem to work, but that's some scary stuff if a user is logged in. I can only imagine a user copying a file for backup and you kill the finder mid stream. Ryan Harter UW - Stevens Point Workstation Developer 715.346.2716 Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu On May 26, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote: > Eh, you could try the good old killall finder as a post command > after a package is installed. Not sure how that would affect the > end user, could get interesting though for sure! > > > >>> Ryan Harter 05/26/09 2:00 PM >>> > I've actually reported this to JAMF and they told me that it is an > issue with the Finder not refreshing the Sidebar cache. I've just > been living with it, but I wonder if there is a command line way to > have the sidebar reload the cache. Also, I'm not sure exactly how > they are mounting the disks, I would assume with the mount command > launched from the jamf binary because why wouldn't they just use the > tools already there. Anyway, the mount command has a "-nobrowse" > option which hides the mounted item from the finder completely. I > think this would be a good option because I don't even want users to > see the mounted disk anywhere. > > Ryan Harter > UW - Stevens Point > Workstation Developer > 715.346.2716 > > Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu > > On May 26, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Thomas Larkin wrote: > >> I've seen it for sure, and it is a small problem I have just been >> living with since I have had other bigger problems to deal with. >> >> >>> "Ernst, Craig S." 05/26/09 9:57 AM >>> >> I?ve seen this happen with software installs or updates from >> policies. The mounted disk image still shows in the left part of >> the finder window. >> >> Haven?t seen if this has carried over into 10.5.7 yet. >> >> Craig E >> >> On 5/26/09 9:49 AM, "Nichols, Jared" >> wrote: >> >> Hi- >> >> Are people having problems with disk images not being removed from >> users? sidebars when they?re done deploying? They?re not mounted >> but stick in the sidebar. The only way to get rid of it seems to >> be by dragging it off the sidebar. I?d like to have no evidence >> that I was there :) >> >> >> --- >> Jared F. Nichols >> Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations >> Information Services Department >> MIT Lincoln Laboratory >> 244 Wood Street >> Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 >> 781.981.5436 >> >> >> > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/a63b1dd4/attachment.htm From john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us Tue May 26 21:22:16 2009 From: john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us (John Wetter) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 23:22:16 -0500 Subject: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing In-Reply-To: References: <5596f1620905261057t4b04454dx2f580aa39bd55e45@mail.gmail.com>, Message-ID: That's interesting as according to Apple's KB, this should only happen to 'improperly modified' /etc/authorization files... I think the KB John was referring to is: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2762 John -- John Wetter Technology Support Administrator Educational Technology, Media & Information Services Hopkins Public Schools 952-988-5373 ________________________________ From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Strauss [jstrauss at loyolahs.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:38 PM To: Brad Rellinger; Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing I haven?t made any modifications whatsoever. This was a clean 10.5 install from disc, then update to 10.5.7, then turned into deployable image. I?ve been reading things here and there about /etc/authorization modifications, but I haven?t done any research past that yet. On 5/26/09 10:57 AM, "Brad Rellinger" > wrote: Did you happen to manually modify any of the cups files in the image (cupsd.conf)? They made some significant changes to managed printers in 10.5.7. -- Brad Rellinger Technology Specialist Anthony Wayne Local Schools K-12 aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jeff Strauss > wrote: Anyone using a 10.5.7 image bound to OD using managed printers? I?m getting an authentication error and can?t log into machines. Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/f3f8dd19/attachment.htm From jstrauss at loyolahs.edu Tue May 26 21:27:31 2009 From: jstrauss at loyolahs.edu (Jeff Strauss) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:27:31 -0700 Subject: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing In-Reply-To: References: <5596f1620905261057t4b04454dx2f580aa39bd55e45@mail.gmail.com>, Message-ID: Yeah, my issue occurred on a clean, unmodified install. Weird. ...sent from a mobile device. On May 26, 2009, at 9:24 PM, "John Wetter" > wrote: That's interesting as according to Apple's KB, this should only happen to 'improperly modified' /etc/authorization files... I think the KB John was referring to is: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2762 John -- John Wetter Technology Support Administrator Educational Technology, Media & Information Services Hopkins Public Schools 952-988-5373 ________________________________ From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Strauss [jstrauss at loyolahs.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:38 PM To: Brad Rellinger; Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing I haven?t made any modifications whatsoever. This was a clean 10.5 install from disc, then update to 10.5.7, then turned into deployable image. I?ve been reading things here and there about /etc/authorization modifications, but I haven?t done any research past that yet. On 5/26/09 10:57 AM, "Brad Rellinger" <aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org> wrote: Did you happen to manually modify any of the cups files in the image (cupsd.conf)? They made some significant changes to managed printers in 10.5.7. -- Brad Rellinger Technology Specialist Anthony Wayne Local Schools K-12 aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jeff Strauss <jstrauss at loyolahs.edu> wrote: Anyone using a 10.5.7 image bound to OD using managed printers? I?m getting an authentication error and can?t log into machines. Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/cc1cdddc/attachment.html From john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us Tue May 26 21:26:44 2009 From: john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us (John Wetter) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 23:26:44 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Migration In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The only thing of note that I'll add is the only settings that don't come across in a migration (did it last summer) are the local server settings such as Tomcat 64-bit and memory settings, backup jobs, log cleaning, etc. as those are local LaunchD items on the server and not part of the database. Everything else works great. I'm a fan of keeping it seperated. Our JSS is a server, and the SUS is a server with our OD, then our Netboot/fileshare is another server. If you're doing it now, there is no versioning of the JSS to worry about. Last I heard 7 was do out by the end of June though... John -- John Wetter Technology Support Administrator Educational Technology, Media & Information Services Hopkins Public Schools 952-988-5373 ________________________________ From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Nichols, Jared [jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:15 AM To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] Migration Hi- I?ve gotten a brandy new Xserve in house (oh she?s a beast) and will be planning server migration soon. I?ve read through the migration bit in the documentation and it seems straightforward enough, though I have two questions: 1. Is there anything ?out of the ordinary? that people ran into during a migration that they weren?t expecting? 2. I currently employ a two server strategy ? one for the JSS, one for the SUS ? but the new server is certainly beefy enough to do double duty. Ideally, I?d like to go ?big bang? and get it all done in one fell swoop, reassigning everyone?s SUS to the new JSS. Advisable? Pros/Cons? FYI, the JSS uses DNS rather than direct IP so cutover is a breeze. j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090526/13fc17c2/attachment.htm From lpnicholas at moravian.edu Wed May 27 08:56:54 2009 From: lpnicholas at moravian.edu (Nicholas, Lauren) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 11:56:54 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Casper Remote Freezing Message-ID: I'm having a weird problem: on some packages, Casper Remote will freeze at "downloading package x" but when I look at the logs on the JSS it says it's completed successfully and also on the client, it has completed successfully. I have to force-quit the application. It's troublesome, because I don't know that the package completed. Has anyone experienced this? - LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst - Hurd Campus Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090527/bbd1ab11/attachment.html From jstrauss at loyolahs.edu Wed May 27 09:09:01 2009 From: jstrauss at loyolahs.edu (Jeff Strauss) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:09:01 -0700 Subject: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Not to mention, all our machines are Intel... On 5/26/09 9:27 PM, "Jeff Strauss" wrote: Yeah, my issue occurred on a clean, unmodified install. Weird. ...sent from a mobile device. On May 26, 2009, at 9:24 PM, "John Wetter" wrote: That's interesting as according to Apple's KB, this should only happen to 'improperly modified' /etc/authorization files... I think the KB John was referring to is: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2762 John Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090527/2841a943/attachment.htm From lpnicholas at moravian.edu Wed May 27 09:11:23 2009 From: lpnicholas at moravian.edu (Nicholas, Lauren) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:11:23 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Casper Remote Freezing Message-ID: I'm having a weird problem: on some packages, Casper Remote will freeze at "downloading package x" but when I look at the logs on the JSS it says it's completed successfully and also on the client, it has completed successfully. I have to force-quit the application. It's troublesome, because I don't know that the package completed. Has anyone experienced this? - LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst - Hurd Campus Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090527/ff03b1cc/attachment.html From aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org Wed May 27 09:19:03 2009 From: aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org (Brad Rellinger) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:19:03 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Casper Remote Freezing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5596f1620905270919m57c9c3b8ie40b6278e2aafdb2@mail.gmail.com> I've seen these several times but never dug into it. -- Brad Rellinger Technology Specialist Anthony Wayne Local Schools K-12 aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Nicholas, Lauren wrote: > I?m having a weird problem: on some packages, Casper Remote will freeze at > ?downloading package x? ?but when I look at the logs on the JSS it says it?s > completed successfully and also on the client, it has completed > successfully. I have to force-quit the application. It?s troublesome, > because I don?t know that the package completed. Has anyone experienced > this? > > > > > > > > ? > LAUREN NICHOLAS > User Support Analyst ? Hurd Campus > > Center for Information Technology ? CIT > > Moravian College > > adjunct prof | graphic design & music > ph. 610 861 1633 > lpnicholas at moravian.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > From Jason.Weber at district196.org Wed May 27 09:19:13 2009 From: Jason.Weber at district196.org (Weber, Jason) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 11:19:13 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Disable Parental Controls Message-ID: Ok, so I have a site that decided to somehow manage to turn on Parental Controls for all of it's AD users.. My problem is finding out a way to disable or turn off the Parental Controls from all accounts. (Of course by enabling this feature, people are now having issues doing the easiest of things such as printing!) Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this?? I've tried running Composer to see if I can find any system plists that I could replace, but no luck there.. Jason Weber Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independent School District 196 jason.weber at district196.org (651)-423-7974 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090527/3bf118ab/attachment.html From chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us Wed May 27 09:44:54 2009 From: chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us (Chad Brewer) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:44:54 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Casper Remote Freezing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I've seen this problem when using the default method of HTTP for large files. Try clicking on Override Defaults and forcing AFP. Chad "Nicholas, Lauren" on May 27, 2009 at 9:11 AM -0700 wrote: >I?m having a weird problem: on some packages, Casper Remote will freeze >at ?downloading package x? but when I look at the logs on the JSS it >says it?s completed successfully and also on the client, it has completed >successfully. I have to force-quit the application. It?s troublesome, >because I don?t know that the package completed. Has anyone experienced >this? > > > > > > > >? >LAUREN NICHOLAS >User Support Analyst ? Hurd Campus > >Center for Information Technology ? CIT > >Moravian College > >adjunct prof | graphic design & music >ph. 610 861 1633 >[ fcp://@fc.bend.k12.or.us,%2318810066/Mailbox/lpnicholas at moravian.edu >]lpnicholas at moravian.edu > > > >_______________________________________________ >Casper mailing list >Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090527/3b038ac0/attachment.html From lpnicholas at moravian.edu Wed May 27 09:57:54 2009 From: lpnicholas at moravian.edu (Nicholas, Lauren) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:57:54 -0400 Subject: [Casper] dmg left on user's desktop? Message-ID: I have a package or two that leave a dmg file on desktops of users. has anyone seen this before and know what I might be missing? (I don't think this matters, but currently, I'm seeing it with my Filemaker Pro 10 dmg file) thanks. - LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst - Hurd Campus Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090527/052b9d5a/attachment.htm From adamshep07 at aol.com Wed May 27 10:45:07 2009 From: adamshep07 at aol.com (Adam Shepard) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 10:45:07 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Disable Parental Controls In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7DA66CA7-C468-4AE0-9350-DBA207E7AFBB@aol.com> Are these accounts managed through WGM. If so maybe that is where they enabled the preference and in that case deleting a file would not resolve this. Sent from my iPhone On May 27, 2009, at 9:19 AM, "Weber, Jason" wrote: > Ok, so I have a site that decided to somehow manage to turn on > Parental Controls for all of it?s AD users.. My problem is finding o > ut a way to disable or turn off the Parental Controls from all accou > nts. (Of course by enabling this feature, people are now having issu > es doing the easiest of things such as printing!) > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this?? I?ve trie > d running Composer to see if I can find any system plists that I cou > ld replace, but no luck there.. > > > > > > Jason Weber > Technology Support Cluster Specialist > Independent School District 196 > jason.weber at district196.org > (651)-423-7974 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us Wed May 27 10:46:41 2009 From: chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us (Chad Brewer) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 10:46:41 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Home dir opening on first login Message-ID: Does anyone know what causes the User's home directory to open in Finder on a first login? I thought it was tied to the WindowState key in com.apple.finder.plist but now I don't think thats it. Basically I'm trying to avoid having this open up the first time a user logs in. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090527/5b72d90f/attachment.html From tlarki at kckps.org Wed May 27 11:28:07 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:28:07 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Home dir opening on first login In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A1D3FE7.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Nope, I don't but I do know that by default any new finder window that you open up will default the home directory. Perhaps at first time log in it is just the OS opening up a Finder window??? That is my guess. >>> "Chad Brewer" 05/27/09 12:46 PM >>> Does anyone know what causes the User's home directory to open in Finder on a first login? I thought it was tied to the WindowState key in com.apple.finder.plist but now I don't think thats it. Basically I'm trying to avoid having this open up the first time a user logs in. > Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090527/d5fe5742/attachment.html From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Wed May 27 11:30:25 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:30:25 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Disable Parental Controls In-Reply-To: <7DA66CA7-C468-4AE0-9350-DBA207E7AFBB@aol.com> References: <7DA66CA7-C468-4AE0-9350-DBA207E7AFBB@aol.com> Message-ID: I thought I'd reply for Jason since he's neglecting his post :) We do not use WGM here. It seems as though that particular building tech clerk sent something out with ARD that caused the change. We don't think it's likely that they went around to each machine and turned it on by hand. And they don't have access to casper other than local imaging, and inventory in the JSS. Thanks! Keep the tips and ideas coming! -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 -----Original Message----- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Adam Shepard Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 12:45 PM To: Weber, Jason Cc: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] Disable Parental Controls Are these accounts managed through WGM. If so maybe that is where they enabled the preference and in that case deleting a file would not resolve this. Sent from my iPhone On May 27, 2009, at 9:19 AM, "Weber, Jason" wrote: > Ok, so I have a site that decided to somehow manage to turn on > Parental Controls for all of it?s AD users.. My problem is finding o > ut a way to disable or turn off the Parental Controls from all accou > nts. (Of course by enabling this feature, people are now having issu > es doing the easiest of things such as printing!) > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this?? I?ve trie > d running Composer to see if I can find any system plists that I cou > ld replace, but no luck there.. > > > > > > Jason Weber > Technology Support Cluster Specialist > Independent School District 196 > jason.weber at district196.org > (651)-423-7974 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From jorge at nyu.edu Wed May 27 11:59:06 2009 From: jorge at nyu.edu (jorge a. najera-ordonez) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:59:06 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Home dir opening on first login In-Reply-To: <4A1D3FE7.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <4A1D3FE7.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <97473A7C-BCD8-4F29-8E41-9BAC06CF623E@nyu.edu> i believe it is the windowstate key in the finder plist. the finder plist we deploy to our managed accounts and the user template looks like this WindowState and we no longer have the users home folder open up on first login. jorge a. najera-ordonez On May 27, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote: > Nope, I don't but I do know that by default any new finder window > that you open up will default the home directory. Perhaps at first > time log in it is just the OS opening up a Finder window??? > > That is my guess. > > > >>> "Chad Brewer" 05/27/09 12:46 PM >>> > Does anyone know what causes the User's home directory to open in > Finder on a first login? I thought it was tied to the WindowState > key in com.apple.finder.plist but now I don't think thats it. > Basically I'm trying to avoid having this open up the first time a > user logs in. > > > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090527/ed31c463/attachment.html From Cindi.Starr at k12.sd.us Wed May 27 12:28:59 2009 From: Cindi.Starr at k12.sd.us (Cindi.Starr at k12.sd.us) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:28:59 -0500 Subject: [Casper] MS Office 2008 for Mac - Is it possible to relocate the "Microsoft User Data" folder? Message-ID: Does anyone know of a way to prevent or relocate the "Microsoft User Data" folder that writes itself to the user's Documents folder using Casper? I would like to move somewhere else, and in the previous version of Office (2004) it let me move it to the User's Library/Application Support folder, so I packaged it this way with Composer. Office 2008 doesn't seem to fall for this trick. Any suggestions? Thanks so much! Cindi Starr Rapid City Area Schools South Dakota cindi.starr at k12.sd.us From chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us Wed May 27 12:44:29 2009 From: chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us (Chad Brewer) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:44:29 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Home dir opening on first login In-Reply-To: <97473A7C-BCD8-4F29-8E41-9BAC06CF623E@nyu.edu> References: <4A1D3FE7.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> <97473A7C-BCD8-4F29-8E41-9BAC06CF623E@nyu.edu> Message-ID: Thanks. I tried managing the WindowState key in com.apple.finder.plist via workgroup manager and it does appear to be working. Chad "jorge a. najera-ordonez" on May 27, 2009 at 11:59 AM -0700 wrote: >i believe it is the windowstate key in the finder plist. the finder plist >we deploy to our managed accounts and the user template looks like this > > >WindowState > > > >and we no longer have the users home folder open up on first login. > > >jorge a. najera-ordonez > > > >On May 27, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote: > > > >Nope, I don't but I do know that by default any new finder window that >you open up will default the home directory. Perhaps at first time log >in it is just the OS opening up a Finder window??? > >That is my guess. > > > > > > >>>> "Chad Brewer" <[ mailto:chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us >]chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us> 05/27/09 12:46 PM >>> > >Does anyone know what causes the User's home directory to open in Finder >on a first login? I thought it was tied to the WindowState key in >com.apple.finder.plist but now I don't think thats it. Basically I'm >trying to avoid having this open up the first time a user logs in. > >> >Thanks. >_______________________________________________ >Casper mailing list >[ mailto:Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com ]Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >[ http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >]http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090527/c0165d74/attachment.htm From keith.hamilton at wk.com Wed May 27 12:45:58 2009 From: keith.hamilton at wk.com (Keith Hamilton) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:45:58 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Sidebar mounted disks (Ryan Harter) Message-ID: I have run into this problem in the past, and have found that, although the admin runs the risk of interrupting a transfer, a simple killall Finder command will get rid of the remnant disk icon. Just enter killall Finder in the final policy window as a command to execute after the policy has installed the software. Keith ---- Keith Hamilton Mac Support Technician Wieden + Kennedy phone: 503.937.7476 keith.hamilton at wk.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090527/1d42d37a/attachment.html From william.smith at merrillcorp.com Wed May 27 12:55:40 2009 From: william.smith at merrillcorp.com (Smith, William) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:55:40 -0500 Subject: [Casper] MS Office 2008 for Mac - Is it possible to relocate the "Microsoft User Data" folder? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > From: > Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:28:59 -0500 > > Does anyone know of a way to prevent or relocate the "Microsoft User Data" > folder that writes itself to the user's Documents folder using Casper? I > would like to move somewhere else, and in the previous version of Office > (2004) it let me move it to the User's Library/Application Support folder, so > I packaged it this way with Composer. Office 2008 doesn't seem to fall for > this trick. Any suggestions? A sym-link or alias pointing back to the original should still work in Office 2008. This is the only way you could do it with Office 2004. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Wed May 27 13:07:12 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:07:12 -0400 Subject: [Casper] dock problem.. Message-ID: Okay, so this is the latest status on my dock problem. I have this script which I can run locally on any given user and it will create a dock item for any of these programs that are present on the system. However, it will not work if I launch it through Casper. As you can see, I've tried many different methods to get defaults to work for the logged in user but all I see is the dock relaunching. Does anyone have any ideas? Has anyone done anything like this? #!/bin/sh # Applications user=`ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4` username=`/usr/bin/w | grep console | awk '{print $1}'` current_user=`/usr/bin/finger -s -l | grep Login | awk '{print $2}'` kid_pix="/Applications/Kid Pix Deluxe 4" ttl="/Applications/Type To Learn 3" kidspiration="/Applications/Kidspiration 2" inspiration="/Applications/Inspiration 8" echo "3=$3" echo "user=$user" echo "username=$username" echo "current_user=$current_user" #sleep 20 if [[ -e "$kid_pix" ]]; then su $user defaults write /Users/macuser/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString/Applications/Kid Pix Deluxe 4/Kid Pix Deluxe 4/_CFURLStringType0" fi if [[ -e "$kidspiration" ]]; then su "$user" defaults write /Users/$user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString/Applications/Kidspiration 2/Kidspiration 2.app/_CFURLStringType0" fi if [[ -e "$inspiration" ]]; then defaults write /Users/"$user"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString/Applications/Inspiration 8/Inspiration 8.app/_CFURLStringType0" fi if [[ -e "$ttl" ]]; then defaults write /Users/$current_user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString/Applications/Type To Learn 3/Type To Learn 3/_CFURLStringType0" fi killall Dock exit 0 John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090527/3625630b/attachment.htm From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Wed May 27 13:04:13 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:04:13 -0400 Subject: [Casper] MS Office 2008 for Mac - Is it possible to relocate the "Microsoft User Data" folder? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: That's probably the safest way to do it, unless you did something like re-locate the entire user folder. j On 5/27/09 15:55 , "Smith, William" wrote: > From: > Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:28:59 -0500 > > Does anyone know of a way to prevent or relocate the "Microsoft User Data" > folder that writes itself to the user's Documents folder using Casper? I > would like to move somewhere else, and in the previous version of Office > (2004) it let me move it to the User's Library/Application Support folder, so > I packaged it this way with Composer. Office 2008 doesn't seem to fall for > this trick. Any suggestions? A sym-link or alias pointing back to the original should still work in Office 2008. This is the only way you could do it with Office 2004. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090527/32746a6c/attachment.html From adamshep07 at aol.com Wed May 27 16:45:37 2009 From: adamshep07 at aol.com (Adam Shepard) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:45:37 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Disable Parental Controls In-Reply-To: References: <7DA66CA7-C468-4AE0-9350-DBA207E7AFBB@aol.com> Message-ID: <984C821D-53CC-47A5-8EAA-74B2A2E9DBCE@aol.com> Even without WGM you can still manage local MCX preferences. Are these 10.4 or 10.5 clients. The preference file could have been created and distributed via ARD. This file could have been sent out that way. It's interesting that the "building tech clerk" doesn't know if or what they sent out? Adam Shepard Web Developer / System Administrator Creighton School District [Office 602-381-6000] [Cell 602-319-8935] ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator ? Apple Certified System Administrator On May 27, 2009, at 11:30 AM, Dorey, Dustin wrote: > I thought I'd reply for Jason since he's neglecting his post :) > We do not use WGM here. It seems as though that particular > building tech clerk sent something out with ARD that caused the > change. We don't think it's likely that they went around to each > machine and turned it on by hand. And they don't have access to > casper other than local imaging, and inventory in the JSS. > > Thanks! Keep the tips and ideas coming! > -Dusty- > > Dustin Dorey > Technology Support Cluster Specialist > Independant School District 196 > Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools > dustin.dorey at district196.org > 651|423|7971 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > ] On Behalf Of Adam Shepard > Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 12:45 PM > To: Weber, Jason > Cc: Casper List > Subject: Re: [Casper] Disable Parental Controls > > Are these accounts managed through WGM. If so maybe that is where they > enabled the preference and in that case deleting a file would not > resolve this. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 27, 2009, at 9:19 AM, "Weber, Jason" > wrote: > >> Ok, so I have a site that decided to somehow manage to turn on >> Parental Controls for all of it?s AD users.. My problem is finding >> o >> ut a way to disable or turn off the Parental Controls from all accou >> nts. (Of course by enabling this feature, people are now having issu >> es doing the easiest of things such as printing!) >> >> >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this?? I?ve >> trie >> d running Composer to see if I can find any system plists that I cou >> ld replace, but no luck there.. >> >> >> >> >> >> Jason Weber >> Technology Support Cluster Specialist >> Independent School District 196 >> jason.weber at district196.org >> (651)-423-7974 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Casper mailing list >> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090527/1487008b/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Thu May 28 11:43:09 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:43:09 -0500 Subject: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A1E94ED.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> In response to this link posted earlier http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3511 How are you all getting this to work? I just spent the last two days troubleshooting a stupid launchd item that a combo update fixed!!! ARRRGGG! Now I want something to work as intended! Do you guys have log in hooks that run that for each user, or could you say just modify that code to add that level of access to the staff group, since every user is a member of staff, or would that be like a huge security leak? Thoughts? Thanks! Tom ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Jeff Strauss 05/27/09 11:09 AM >>> Not to mention, all our machines are Intel... On 5/26/09 9:27 PM, "Jeff Strauss" wrote: Yeah, my issue occurred on a clean, unmodified install. Weird. ...sent from a mobile device. On May 26, 2009, at 9:24 PM, "John Wetter" wrote: That's interesting as according to Apple's KB, this should only happen to 'improperly modified' /etc/authorization files... I think the KB John was referring to is: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2762 John Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090528/fc25b08c/attachment.html From charlie.butters at shopko.com Thu May 28 12:28:45 2009 From: charlie.butters at shopko.com (Charlie Butters) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:28:45 -0500 Subject: [Casper] dock problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: John, Don?t know if this will help, but here is another iteration to try. I think you definitely want to run the defaults command as the user, so using su . In my experience when doing that, I have always used the following syntax (your kidspiration iteration is closest to what I have used): if [[ -e "$kidspiration" ]]; then su - "$user" -c ?defaults write /Users/$user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ?tile-datafile-data_CFURLString /Applications/Kidspiration 2/Kidspiration 2.app/_CFURLStringType0 ?? fi Don?t know how the single/double quotes will come across in the email, but basically, here is what I suggest trying: * add a dash between su and $user * add the ?c flag after $user. * put the entire defaults command in double quotes * put single quotes around the .... directive within that command Again, that?s real close to what you have tried, so it may not make a difference, but that would be the next thing I would try. -- Charlie Butters Shopko Stores charlie.butters at shopko.com Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:07:12 -0400 From: "John McLaughlin" Subject: [Casper] dock problem.. To: "Casper List" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Okay, so this is the latest status on my dock problem. I have this script which I can run locally on any given user and it will create a dock item for any of these programs that are present on the system. However, it will not work if I launch it through Casper. As you can see, I've tried many different methods to get defaults to work for the logged in user but all I see is the dock relaunching. Does anyone have any ideas? Has anyone done anything like this? #!/bin/sh # Applications user=`ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4` username=`/usr/bin/w | grep console | awk '{print $1}'` current_user=`/usr/bin/finger -s -l | grep Login | awk '{print $2}'` kid_pix="/Applications/Kid Pix Deluxe 4" ttl="/Applications/Type To Learn 3" kidspiration="/Applications/Kidspiration 2" inspiration="/Applications/Inspiration 8" echo "3=$3" echo "user=$user" echo "username=$username" echo "current_user=$current_user" #sleep 20 if [[ -e "$kid_pix" ]]; then su $user defaults write /Users/macuser/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString /Applications/Kid Pix Deluxe 4/Kid Pix Deluxe 4/_CFURLStringType0" fi if [[ -e "$kidspiration" ]]; then su "$user" defaults write /Users/$user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString /Applications/Kidspiration 2/Kidspiration 2.app/_CFURLStringType0 " fi if [[ -e "$inspiration" ]]; then defaults write /Users/"$user"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString /Applications/Inspiration 8/Inspiration 8.app/_CFURLStringType0 " fi if [[ -e "$ttl" ]]; then defaults write /Users/$current_user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString /Applications/Type To Learn 3/Type To Learn 3/_CFURLStringType0" fi killall Dock exit 0 John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Thu May 28 12:58:37 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:58:37 -0400 Subject: [Casper] dock problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks so much for the help. I will try that. John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools Charlie Butters writes: >John, > >Don?t know if this will help, but here is another iteration to try. I >think >you definitely want to run the defaults command as the user, so using su . >In my experience when doing that, I have always used the following syntax >(your kidspiration iteration is closest to what I have used): > >if [[ -e "$kidspiration" ]]; then >su - "$user" -c ?defaults write >/Users/$user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock >persistent-apps -array-add >?tile-datafile-data_CFURLString >/Applications/Kidspiration 2/Kidspiration >2.app/_CFURLStringType0 >?? >fi > >Don?t know how the single/double quotes will come across in the email, but >basically, here is what I suggest trying: > >* add a dash between su and $user >* add the ?c flag after $user. >* put the entire defaults command in double quotes >* put single quotes around the .... directive within that >command > >Again, that?s real close to what you have tried, so it may not make a >difference, but that would be the next thing I would try. > >-- >Charlie Butters >Shopko Stores >charlie.butters at shopko.com > > > >Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:07:12 -0400 >From: "John McLaughlin" >Subject: [Casper] dock problem.. >To: "Casper List" >Message-ID: > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Okay, so this is the latest status on my dock problem. I have this script >which I can run locally on any given user and it will create a dock item >for any of these programs that are present on the system. However, it >will not work if I launch it through Casper. As you can see, I've tried >many different methods to get defaults to work for the logged in user but >all I see is the dock relaunching. Does anyone have any ideas? Has >anyone done anything like this? > > >#!/bin/sh > > ># Applications >user=`ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4` >username=`/usr/bin/w | grep console | awk '{print $1}'` >current_user=`/usr/bin/finger -s -l | grep Login | awk '{print $2}'` >kid_pix="/Applications/Kid Pix Deluxe 4" >ttl="/Applications/Type To Learn 3" >kidspiration="/Applications/Kidspiration 2" >inspiration="/Applications/Inspiration 8" > >echo "3=$3" >echo "user=$user" >echo "username=$username" >echo "current_user=$current_user" >#sleep 20 > >if [[ -e "$kid_pix" ]]; then >su $user defaults write /Users/macuser/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock >persistent-apps -array-add >"tile-datafile-data_CFURLString >/Applications/Kid >Pix Deluxe 4/Kid Pix Deluxe >4/_CFURLStringType0ct>" >fi > >if [[ -e "$kidspiration" ]]; then >su "$user" defaults write /Users/$user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock >persistent-apps -array-add >"tile-datafile-data_CFURLString >/Applications/Kidspiration >2/Kidspiration >2.app/_CFURLStringType0 >" >fi > >if [[ -e "$inspiration" ]]; then >defaults write /Users/"$user"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock >persistent-apps -array-add >"tile-datafile-data_CFURLString >/Applications/Inspiration >8/Inspiration >8.app/_CFURLStringType0 >" >fi > >if [[ -e "$ttl" ]]; then >defaults write /Users/$current_user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock >persistent-apps -array-add >"tile-datafile-data_CFURLString >/Applications/Type >To Learn 3/Type To Learn >3/_CFURLStringType0ct>" >fi > >killall Dock > > >exit 0 > > >John McLaughlin >Technical Support Specialist >Newton Public Schools > >_______________________________________________ >Casper mailing list >Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090528/9e106edd/attachment.html From tlarki at kckps.org Thu May 28 13:01:25 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:01:25 -0500 Subject: [Casper] dock problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A1EA745.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Sorry if this is way off, but why not capture it with composer and then have it fill existing users and make it self healing so it can't be altered? What is stopping the users from deleting these preferences? Just a thought. Tom >>> "John McLaughlin" 05/28/09 2:58 PM >>> Thanks so much for the help. I will try that. > John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools > > Charlie Butters writes: John, > Don?t know if this will help, but here is another iteration to try. I think you definitely want to run the defaults command as the user, so using su . In my experience when doing that, I have always used the following syntax (your kidspiration iteration is closest to what I have used): > if [[ -e "$kidspiration" ]]; then su - "$user" -c ?defaults write /Users/$user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ?tile-datafile-data_CFURLString /Applications/Kidspiration 2/Kidspiration 2.app/_CFURLStringType0 ?? fi > Don?t know how the single/double quotes will come across in the email, but basically, here is what I suggest trying: > * add a dash between su and $user * add the ?c flag after $user. * put the entire defaults command in double quotes * put single quotes around the .... directive within that command > Again, that?s real close to what you have tried, so it may not make a difference, but that would be the next thing I would try. > -- Charlie Butters Shopko Stores charlie.butters at shopko.com > > > Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:07:12 -0400 From: "John McLaughlin" Subject: [Casper] dock problem.. To: "Casper List" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Okay, so this is the latest status on my dock problem. I have this script which I can run locally on any given user and it will create a dock item for any of these programs that are present on the system. However, it will not work if I launch it through Casper. As you can see, I've tried many different methods to get defaults to work for the logged in user but all I see is the dock relaunching. Does anyone have any ideas? Has anyone done anything like this? > > #!/bin/sh > > # Applications user=`ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4` username=`/usr/bin/w | grep console | awk '{print $1}'` current_user=`/usr/bin/finger -s -l | grep Login | awk '{print $2}'` kid_pix="/Applications/Kid Pix Deluxe 4" ttl="/Applications/Type To Learn 3" kidspiration="/Applications/Kidspiration 2" inspiration="/Applications/Inspiration 8" > echo "3=$3" echo "user=$user" echo "username=$username" echo "current_user=$current_user" #sleep 20 > if [[ -e "$kid_pix" ]]; then su $user defaults write /Users/macuser/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString /Applications/Kid Pix Deluxe 4/Kid Pix Deluxe 4/_CFURLStringType0" fi > if [[ -e "$kidspiration" ]]; then su "$user" defaults write /Users/$user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString /Applications/Kidspiration 2/Kidspiration 2.app/_CFURLStringType0 tile-datafile-data_CFURLString /Applications/Inspiration 8/Inspiration 8.app/_CFURLStringType0 " fi > if [[ -e "$ttl" ]]; then defaults write /Users/$current_user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add "tile-datafile-data_CFURLString /Applications/Type To Learn 3/Type To Learn 3/_CFURLStringType0" fi > killall Dock > > exit 0 > > John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools > _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090528/aa6fe6ba/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Thu May 28 13:53:54 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:53:54 -0500 Subject: [Casper] 10.5.7 printing In-Reply-To: <4A1E94ED.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <4A1E94ED.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <4A1EB392.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Ok I think I am going to have a new approach. I am think I am going to give the _lpadmin group full privs since every user seems to be a member of that group, anyone tried this out yet with a mobile account? Thanks, >>> "Thomas Larkin" 05/28/09 1:43 PM >>> In response to this link posted earlier http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3511 How are you all getting this to work? I just spent the last two days troubleshooting a stupid launchd item that a combo update fixed!!! ARRRGGG! Now I want something to work as intended! Do you guys have log in hooks that run that for each user, or could you say just modify that code to add that level of access to the staff group, since every user is a member of staff, or would that be like a huge security leak? Thoughts? Thanks! Tom ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Jeff Strauss 05/27/09 11:09 AM >>> Not to mention, all our machines are Intel... On 5/26/09 9:27 PM, "Jeff Strauss" wrote: Yeah, my issue occurred on a clean, unmodified install. Weird. ...sent from a mobile device. On May 26, 2009, at 9:24 PM, "John Wetter" wrote: That's interesting as according to Apple's KB, this should only happen to 'improperly modified' /etc/authorization files... I think the KB John was referring to is: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2762 John Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090528/6bb273a4/attachment.html From Jason.Weber at district196.org Fri May 29 06:47:08 2009 From: Jason.Weber at district196.org (Weber, Jason) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 08:47:08 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Enable-Disable Guest account on 10.5.x Message-ID: Curious to see if anyone has a simple way to enable or disable the Guest account in OS X 10.5.x? Our base install has this disabled by default, but we will be putting in a few training labs where the guest account would be handy. We do not have a WorkGroup Manager server in our environment.. Jason Weber Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independent School District 196 jason.weber at district196.org (651)-423-7974 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090529/4b224881/attachment.htm From Jason.Weber at district196.org Fri May 29 06:52:10 2009 From: Jason.Weber at district196.org (Weber, Jason) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 08:52:10 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Script to remove old accounts or home directories? Message-ID: Throwing another post out here.. Kind of following the last post referring to a training lab.. In this lab the computers will also be bound to AD, but will not be making a 'Mobile' account. However even though there is no permanent account created, there is an individual user home directory created that is not deleted once the user logs out. Since this is a training lab, it would be nice to have those home directories cleaned out after the user has left. Does anyone have a good way on how to remove those AD home directories once a user has logged out, but not touch the local accounts created on these machines? Jason Weber Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independent School District 196 jason.weber at district196.org (651)-423-7974 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090529/8a5d47f0/attachment.html From clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca Fri May 29 07:50:05 2009 From: clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca (Clinton Blackmore) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 08:50:05 -0600 Subject: [Casper] forum? -> serverfault References: Message-ID: <8A5FE0BC-9152-4A6E-944C-5C14601F2BB1@westwind.ab.ca> Back in our 'forum?' discussion nearly two months ago, I mentioned that a site called serverfault was coming. It is here -- http://serverfault.com -- and is a great place to ask and answer sysadmin/IT questions, and have the best answers (and questions) rise to the top. You don't even have to sign up to use it, it is useful already and I believe it will become even more useful. I think it does address many of the same things that a forum would, although it is not specific to Casper. Cheers, Clinton Blackmore Begin forwarded message: > From: Clinton Blackmore > Date: April 6, 2009 11:22:09 AM MDT (CA) > To: Criss Myers > Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > Subject: Re: [Casper] forum? > > This is an interesting idea, indeed. > > > First, I wanted to mention a site that should be up within a month, > called http://serverfault.com/ . (Right now they've got a logo > contest going on, with $2^9 on the line.) This will be the sysadmin- > targetted sister site to the programmer-targetted site http://stackoverflow.com/ > . The about page ( http://stackoverflow.com/about ) gives a > reasonable idea of what it is, which, in brief is: you ask a > question, and people give their answers. The better answers (and > questions) are voted up. Furthermore, when the system trusts you > (because you've given good answers in the past), you can edit > questions and answers to clarify them or fix them. > > Thus, the best answers rise to the top, and if there is a bug (like > a missing semi-colon in a script), it will be fixed, so that the > answer is useful. (As opposed to, 50 posts down, seeing "yeah, you > know reply #12, it has this minor typo in it") > > I'm really excited about serverfault. If it takes off at all like > stackoverflow, it'll be an excellent place to go to get your > questions answered (and, as I have time, I hope to answer some other > questions to help people.) Also, you will potentially benefit from > a large community of system administrators, such as the many mac > admins who don't use Casper but can still help with the problems we > face, and, indeed, the many unix admins who can answer a lot of > scripting questions, and heck, if you have a AD or Parallels > problem, some of the Windows administrators can give you there two > bits. > > > Secondly, I wanted to mention that I'd considered blogging about a > couple of things I've found to be useful, but could certainly put > that up at a community site instead. I am considering putting up > screencasts, too. > > > Lastly, I wanted to mention that Jamf does have some knowledgebase > articles up at http://jamfsoftware.com/kb. > > > Cheers, > Clinton Blackmore > > > On 6-Apr-09, at 1:52 AM, Criss Myers wrote: > >> Is anyone interested in a web knowledge base / forum / repository, >> or what ever you wanna call it for us? >> >> This list is great for communication and support for the Casper >> community and im not suggesting we change it or stop using it, but >> would anyone be interested in a website where we can post scripts, >> best practice documents and be a general store of knowledge. >> >> Personally i think it would be great to have a site where we can >> place scripts we use and procedures we use so that others can >> benefit from them and visa versa. We have a great deal of knowledge >> in this group where users have distinct areas or expertise, some of >> us have worked on windows installs, some on printing issues, some >> on Adobe products, some on dump packages and custom triggers etc. >> >> We could build up an archive of useful tips and hints that anyone >> of in the group can dip into at anytime. >> >> You guys may have some great tips and hints and procedures that >> wont get on this list because no one asks the question but may be >> of use to us all. >> >> We could also gather a list of users and what our areas or >> expertise are, where we work and what we. >> >> what do you guys think? >> >> >> Regards >> >> Criss >> >> Criss Myers >> Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) >> Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 >> LIS Business Support Team >> Library 301 >> University of Central Lancashire >> Preston PR1 2HE >> Ex 5054 >> 01772 895054 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Casper mailing list >> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper This email has been scanned by Barracuda Network's Anti-Virus and Spam Firewall. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090529/5fcd7d0e/attachment.html From NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org Fri May 29 07:43:08 2009 From: NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org (NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:43:08 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Script to remove old accounts or home directories? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Jason, I copied a script from Apple's developer site to delete all Mobile accounts from 10.4 and 10.5. It works well, but won't work on home directories that don't have mobile account credentials to match (which is what you have). http://developer.apple.com/ReleaseNotes/MacOSXServer/RN-DirectoryServices/index.html And again, this is a feature in WGM to expire mobile accounts, after a set period of time. If you choose 0, they delete at logout. I'll send you the script off list. -Nathaniel From: "Weber, Jason" To: "Casper List" Date: 05/29/2009 08:42 AM Subject: [Casper] Script to remove old accounts or home directories? Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com Throwing another post out here.. Kind of following the last post referring to a training lab.. In this lab the computers will also be bound to AD, but will not be making a ?Mobile? account. However even though there is no permanent account created, there is an individual user home directory created that is not deleted once the user logs out. Since this is a training lab, it would be nice to have those home directories cleaned out after the user has left. Does anyone have a good way on how to remove those AD home directories once a user has logged out, but not touch the local accounts created on these machines? Jason Weber Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independent School District 196 jason.weber at district196.org (651)-423-7974 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090529/2b63e726/attachment.htm From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Fri May 29 08:07:06 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 10:07:06 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Script to remove old accounts or home directories? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: We clean out home directories nightly in labs with a self-deleting startup item that triggered to run as a policy. This is something you need to be very careful with. 1. We have a package that we only install at image time to the systems that are suppose to use it so if for any reason the policy is called to trigger it it won't do anything. 2. The policy copies the startup item out of the packages location into the correct location and verifies permissions are correct. 3. The system is scheduled to reboot 5 minutes later when it has prompted any logged on users. 4. The reboot runs the startup item that moves to a temp location any folders in Users you wish to keep like Shared, or other specified accounts 5. The script then deletes the remaining items in Users 6. The script movies back the desired folders it put in temp 7. The script then deletes the startup item itself So this works if you already know what the local accounts are as you can define that in the script. There may be a more graceful way then moving them all. I can send you the package I have if you like. Craig E On 5/29/09 8:52 AM, "Weber, Jason" wrote: Throwing another post out here.. Kind of following the last post referring to a training lab.. In this lab the computers will also be bound to AD, but will not be making a 'Mobile' account. However even though there is no permanent account created, there is an individual user home directory created that is not deleted once the user logs out. Since this is a training lab, it would be nice to have those home directories cleaned out after the user has left. Does anyone have a good way on how to remove those AD home directories once a user has logged out, but not touch the local accounts created on these machines? Jason Weber Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independent School District 196 jason.weber at district196.org (651)-423-7974 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090529/b9bcbf7b/attachment.htm From lpnicholas at moravian.edu Fri May 29 13:48:12 2009 From: lpnicholas at moravian.edu (Nicholas, Lauren) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 16:48:12 -0400 Subject: [Casper] casper archives? Message-ID: The search engine on the casper archives site doesn't function for me. Anyone else? - LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst - Hurd Campus Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090529/bf42526e/attachment.html