tom_pearson

Hi Drapec, I have this configured on our iMacs by mounting an AFP share at boot up, then using Folder Redirection on Workgroup Manager to redirect home drives to this AFP share. Users SMB home directories are then displayed on the desktop as a mounted volume by default. We're running 10.6.8 Client & Server in a 'Magic Triangle' If you'd like more info PM me. Thanks

I'm pushing a printer out to 10.6 clients via MCX, which is all working fine. However, I need to somehow force the configuration to only print in mono as students keep racking up massive printing bills. Is this possible? I tried monitoring the preference directories whilst setting the printer to mono in hope of finding a plist file being amended to no avail. Thanks

I was always under the impression there was a limit of 10 devices for one Apple ID, especially if you're using it to purchase apps etc. However I've just set up 12 iPads with the same ID with no issues.

You know what to do then

Not having much luck purchasing it though. No surprise there I guess

Ready for download in AppStore

Hang on a minute... I thought they did this with 10.7?

What JR-PCS said

Does anyone have any information on whether I'd be able to bind 10.8 with our current 10.6 server?

Hello Si, I would highly recommend paying for a consultant to get your Apple network set up and connected to your Windows infrastructure, it saved me a lot of time and effort initially, it allowed me to concentrate on getting proper training to support the system rather than trying to patch it all together incorrectly and suffer the consequences! John Roberts (who's on this forum) installed ours, he is also based in the South West. No doubt he will show himself in this thread soon enough The whole iPad thing is slightly different, our school is just beginning to buy lot's of iPads alongside a fleet load of staff iPhones and so far the management has been pretty simple (I use Apple Configurator + AirWatch). I've been playing around with Webdav, but at the moment staff have found it easier to send documents from the ipads to themselves via pre-configured generic email addresses attached to each device. Not a pretty set up but it works. Let me know if you're nearby Taunton as I could probably arrange a sneak peak at our set up.

We only have 15 iPads so far, but also need to manage a plethora of iPhones so we've opted for Airwatch. So far this has been very useful, I don't remember what we're paying off the top of my head. I use Apple Configurator to prepare the devices, which also installs the Airwatch app. The Enterprise Integration Service means we can authenticate with AD users too.

Do you use Apple Remote Desktop? I run a Unix command 'softwareupdate -i -a'. This downloads and installs updates from the software update server without needing any client end interaction. Hope that helps

Hi all. We've had an Apple network for some time now, and due to various problems this is now our setup: - Users authenticate with AD - OD Running on Mini 10.6 Server - Forced local home directories on clients - MCX redirected home folders to a separate Mini Lion server (bound to AD and OD) with Thunderbolt Promise R4 (Clients mount a 'UserData' share on boot up using auto_master with AFP as 'Admin', then users are redirected to this for 'Pictures' 'Video' 'Music' and 'Desktop' Logic has been performing quite well on the RAID device, however recently we've had lot's of issues with permissions. I think some of the problems are down to the mismatch between the two OS X Server versions, I know 10.7.3 is meant to resolve a few issues with AD binding, I'll be trying this over half term. Would it be better to run 10.6 on the RAID server instead? Seeing as OD is running on 10.6?

Not too sure why you are choosing the Mac route if you're only using primary applications... However, out of the software listed above I've only had issues with iPhoto (as others have stated) not playing when using a non-Mac formatted volume to store iPhoto library's. This, plus issues I've had with Logic has meant I've had to force local home directories, then redirect 'Pictures' and 'Music' to a thunderbolt RAID hanging off a Lion Mac Mini Server. User's authenticate with AD, but are managed through OD. The Apple network has cost the school ALOT of money to get to it's current state, and hasn't come without lot's of problems. Mainly due to integration with Windows. If I was in your situation I'd be very cautious about choosing Mac's unless there was a serious demand for them. Good luck either way though!

Hi, I'm trying to automount a volume at boot up using the 'fstab' which seems to be working with the following setup: in auto_master: /Network/Servers -fstab then in fstab: SERVERIP:/SHARE /Network/MOUNT url auto,url==afp://USERNAME:PASSWORD@SERVERIP/SHARE 0 0 At the moment I'm getting a volume mounted, that looks correct, but I have no access to it. I would like any user that logs into the machine to have full access to this volume. I have to admit I'm very green in this department! I've been playing around with some options I've found on the net: rw,gid=12,exec (GID 12 I'm guessing relates to the ID of which ever group you'd like to give access to, in this case 12 is 'Everyone') Eventually I'm going to be using this mount point to redirect home folders to (specifically 'Music' and 'Pictures') Any help is appreciated Thanks