[Casper] Sidebar mounted disks

[Ryan Harter]

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 <rharter at uwsp.edu> 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." <ERNSTCS at uwec.edu> 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" <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu>  
>> 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
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