Comments for Mac Admin Corner

Comment on How to add an AD user as a local admin by Rakesh

Rakesh — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:45:05 +0000

thank you , it helped me.

Comment on slapd error in system.log every 10 seconds by Meat

Meat — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:03:05 +0000

Yay! Kind of an annoyingly useless error message. I could’a poked around a long time and not found that solution.

Thankee!

Comment on LANDesk – Adding Apple Warranty Data to Inventory by Darin

Darin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:13:37 +0000

Nevermind…I figured it out!

Thanks for the “Doc”

Thanks!

Comment on LANDesk – Adding Apple Warranty Data to Inventory by Darin

Darin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:38:39 +0000

So…a couple of questions as I started down this path.

1. The link in the “doc” to download is broken…
2. I copied the script and saved it as ld_mac_warrenty_sh.zip
3. I tried to create a distribution package, but LANDesk didn’t like the file. I tried Mac package, SWD package, exe package and none of them worked.
4. Do I also need to create a plist file?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance!!!

Comment on LANDesk – Adding Apple Warranty Data to Inventory by Darin

Darin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:58:07 +0000

You are right about the “doc” – LOL

Thank you sir!

Greatly appreciated!!!

Comment on LANDesk – Adding Apple Warranty Data to Inventory by Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:34:55 +0000

@Darin.

I thought this was like a doc.

Basically create a distribution package of the .sh.zip file. Then create a scheduled task to push out to all your Macs (use a query for this) at whatever interval you wish (I think I did monthly).

We’ve actually moved our Macs off LANDesk and onto Absolute Manage (formerly LANrev).

Comment on LANDesk – Adding Apple Warranty Data to Inventory by Darin

Darin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:14:06 +0000

Excellent!!!

Patrick, we just started looking at the Mac side of the house…do you have a doc on this process?

What steps need to be taken?

Thanks!

Comment on Allow Non-Admin users to Manage Printers by internet guide

internet guide — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:51:12 +0000

I use 10.5.7 but it is still not working. Are there other ways? Can you also explain how to do it step by step?

Comment on Migrate Local User to Domain Account by Beatlemike

Beatlemike — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:45:21 +0000

Do I maybe add the AD user AFTER i migrate the user folder? I thought I tried that and it stopped me from creating a user, but I might be wrong.

Comment on Bind to OD Script & Add to Computer Group by Donald

Donald — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:04:19 +0000

This looks helpful, but from first glance there seems to be some errors with you if / fi structure:

You have a three consecutive fi’s after the last “killall DirectoryService”, two of which have no corresponding if.

The line “else if [ "${check4AD}" == "All Domains" ]; then” has no corresponding if.

You have two fi’s before ‘ echo “Finished. Exiting…” ‘ that have no corresponding if.

To put it another way: You have only 6 if’s but 11 fi’s.