chill3r

Hi Guys, bit of help needed .... Pretty Pwease Back into a windows Enviroment after being in *Nix / Apple enviromentt for years ... One of the problems we are having is the Network recyler folder is filling some 200 Servers up with space - Folder redirect is a mess and GPO cannot be touched - Else i would of just cleared this up ... What im after is a VBSCRIPT i can just run against the Home drives of network user to erase all the recycler data in one go so \\servername\home\username\recycler << this folder gets blatted Has any kind sir got a script that just does this - or can somebody point me in the right direction .... Pwetty Pwease ? Thanks

Hi Matey No ive done this on a few test machines but they revert back to the inbuilt system Dont want to have to create a new default profile on this one - grrrrr

Guys Can anybody advise how to set a default Sound output and input via MCX on Lion 10.7.5. The place has just added new usb external sound devices and would like this device setup as default - Any ideas? Thanks

iPads ? Mac's ? or iPhones?

have you tried adding the domain server by IP address ? can you ping the domain server ?

cheers dude - all spot on now

Feel a bit foolish - whilst testing i had set just a background on the computers group - this was what was cuasing the problems - too much computer makes chill3r Dizzy thanks all

am i being thick or do i untick the read and write shown in the picture ? so all that is ticked is inheritance ? thanks

sorry my bad spotted it now - thanks matey

Hi Mate, Thats the right direction but a bit puzzled on the below bit Everyone Group: Read, Write, Inheritance, just This folder only is ticked. "Just this Folder only is ticked" cant seem to just select that folder matey Thanks for the feedback P.s attached a screenie

thanks dude

Lion server in a AD / OD enviroment - the area they need to access is on the Mac enviroment and connected to the server

Hi Guys, Me again ...... Im having a little problem with setting up a sorted shared area for students - i want the studentsa to be able to create folders, files and rename etc - but unable to do the same to other user created folders .. Is this something i can achive with AFP in server.app using ACL ? Ive tried all sorts of configurations - but it wither locks off full access or it seems to give them full access any help would be great Thanks

Hi Guys, Ive done a new install with all Lion clients and a Mac mini server (Lion) for sending out preferences. All my standard preferences are working fine .. The School would now like me to set a background for all machines .... no problem within workgroup manager >> details >> adding in the managed.app items and then set the background in desktop file. This pushes out nice to all the machines .. One problem we have thou .. they would like to centre the background and then make the background desktop colour black . Ive recreated this on a machine and exported the .plist into WGM ... This thing doesnt send down the settings - Can anybody advise on a better way of Setting the background to the image in /Library/Desktop Pictures/music.png (this has been copied over to all machines) Setting the image to centered setting the background to Black I seem to have all the correct preferences set in the exported plist - but it dont want to play ball ... Hope somebody can point me into the right direction Thanks C

Click the apple logo on one of the machines - click on about this Mac then click on more info >> scroll down to managed preferences and take a look at what you have here if anything. Also what binding setting have you got set under the Directory Utility ? could you screen shot it for me please.

Take a look at this article - this can then be sent out Via MCX RemoteDesktop 3.0 Help: Creating Administrator Access Groups

this is something ive never looked into - but all applications that run on Mac have a Plist - this Plist can be changed so it can restrict things - not too sure how editable the ARD one will be - ill take a quick look and post my findings

Hi People, Just a little bit of Feedback required. Wondering how your School deals with Mac support ? is this Outsourced to a management company or do the Onsite Techys deal with any problems that arise. Are you a school that's has Macs but have no way of getting them supported ?? Just wondering as ive been speaking to a few schools and before i came along at my current company there was no Apple support for them (tickets sitting in the logging system for months on end). This is not a plug for anything just want to find out others views on support ...... Thanks My wonderfull EDU People

Cheers buddy , Ill let you know how things go

The good thing is - it's being installed as we speak he he he so by the time they come back it should now be working how they wanted

Hi Mate, Network AP's are BELKIN - there like Home Routers - they are really bad and shouldnt be used in this enviroment There are 30 Macbooks connecting up to about 2 Ap's (This will be resolved when a Business WIFI is installed) Bad Spec on the Schools part - but we got to try and work with it for the time being - im out testing tomorrow so will tye up any loose ends with the machines. Cheers

Click on the user and choose Preferences and then Network Put a tick in Proxie as always and then save and then click on details - look for com.apple.SystemConfiguration this has lots of Bits and bobs you can configure, but without the proxie being "Invisiable" "Cloacked" etc then im very dought full you can access the Proxy without Authorisation. We use an Ident client in for the form of a Plist so we can track the users and machines filtering. You would maybe have to look at something on the proxy for the Mac users ? Are all your Machines Bound to AD?

doesnt add to key chain work ??? does the Proxy have AD intergration ? What proxy is it ???

Hi Guys and Gals, Just thought I would start a little topic about Lion and 10.6.8 Server Scenario: 30 Mac Book Pro's with Lion 10.7.1 1 Mac server with SL installed and configured with AFP, DHCP, NFS, Update and Open Directory 1 Wireless network - very slow connection - 100mb Switch hard wired into the network for Image deployment on initial builds. What the school wanted to achieve is managed preferences, Internet access to each machine - 2 accounts on each machine I.e. Student01 and Teacher 01 only these accounts being able to login to the certain machine. Adobe Photoshop, Comic Life and access to Network shares i.e. NAS Drive for Mac use only. Work carried out. Created a netboot Image for Lion using Deploy Studio and then uploaded this to the server with Netboot running Created an image from one of the new machines and also uploaded this to the server Created a workflow within Deploy Studio - tested and working ok with the runtime. Connected 4 Mac Books up to the network on the same Subnet as the server - "this is a Must and very important" Netbooted into each machine using ALT and choosing the Netboot image I created. Took 4 Hours to rebuild 4 Mac Books - added the Binding Workflow so it bound each Mac to the Mac server. Because of the network speeds and the size of the image it took me 2 days to image all the machines - but managed it Created new account on the server 60 accounts in total The computers all showed up in WGM so create a new group called managed_books and added all the computers into this group. Set the managed preferences that we wanted. I.e. login window, Mobile accounts, certain mapped Links to the Nas and other drives. I have each machine to show 2 login accounts (Both Portable / mobile) I set the Network account for that machine (so only the 2 network accounts could login to that machine) and logged in using the credentials, I also set a picture for the student / teacher account - done this on all the Mac books and now the login screen only shows the two accounts we need. I could access the internet and other shared resources once logged into the machine (Ethernet) this was one machine at a time for testing. now I was very happy with the setup and everything worked ok from my point of View - then Wireless was put into the equation (so had to set this up on each machine) - on a couple of Home based routers ? (I know not a dam good idea) anyway we set out all the macbooks for a test class and I was running a bit late (Was going to tell the teacher not to tell all the students to login at the same times etc) but this happened and as you can imagine all clients logging into the network all at the same time = Server and Network meltdown - (I Hid in the office:o) ) Some of the problems faced here - Mobile accounts, not a good idea if you have a slow connection - we stopped synch on some of the machines and this caused problems logging in (I'll go into this later) We then couldn’t access the internet - I know why this was a problems - to-do with our Proxy system - so sorted this out. Network printing was ok so was accessing network resources. The machines even at this level of network speed all seemed to get the MCX settings. Now on a couple of the machines we stopped Network sync and now when we even delete the local account from Preferences we cannot login - we login with the other box and type username and password screen goes grey and then comes back to the login screen - but creates the account so it can be viewed on login screen. Weird!! Erased network and local accounts left it for a while and tried it again by creating a network account - but still same problem - this only happens on the couple of machines that we stopped synch on - I’m going to set their Home drives to local see if this has an effect - but I know we will overcome this issue. So my worries of Lion clients and Snow leopard server are no more - just a couple of niggles to iron out and that’s it - one being the Wireless (Couldn’t Look when they where logging in) Hope this helps people in the same boat and also if you have any questions I can help with then Fire away ) P.s Sorry for my spelling mistakes and also grammar i'm pretty clap at explaining things

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