New Mac network - is this possible?

[DMcCoy]

Some are create by os x when it finds they are not there, you will know if it's copied the template as the ichat icons will be in the Pictures folder.

[sidewinder]

Well I just couldnt use that script at all, I corrected whatever spaces had been put in at line 4, but then it had trouble with the 'else' at the end, and hours of changing and retyping it later it still wouldnt run.

 

So in the end, I turned on SMB, and created the folders and set the permissions with a windows script. Obviously I'm missing the template this way, but it creates the desktop, downloads and library folders, and ive created the Documents folders with a script.

Seems to work well enough.

 

Not perfect but I was rapidly running out of time and have a lot of other things to do.

 

Thanks for all your help dmccoy, and sorry for all the stupid questions.

Theres still little bits to sort, the printers via managed prefs is one of them, but all the user creation and authentication bits are done so I'm happy

[HodgeHi]

how many users do you have? I only had around three hundred or so and decided to manually copy the template profile into each home dir. Once I had edited the template by logging in as a user and then copying that template into the english.lproj template folder using the template app found on the apple-scripts site. I then copied the template onto the desktop. I then copied them manually into each user dir. With the acls propergating through the folders the permissions were created as the files copied in as expected. The only issue I saw was the drop box but we don't use them anyway. I would like to use the script method and will look into it when I have more time.

 

For converting line endings I found textwrangler really good as you have the option at the save prompt to choose which type of carriage returns to use.

 

Good luck with your adventures. I've yet to find out if mines gonna hold up to the task. That day is Monday.

[sidewinder]

Ive got about 300 in each year, and years 10, 11, 12 and 13 use the Macs so thats 1200...bit too many to do manually lol

But yeah I do find that doing things manually sometimes is quicker than fiddling for hours trying to get the 'quick' way working.

 

Good luck for Monday. I've got till Wednesday, will be glad when its survived a day in 'action'