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Comment on PPC Not booting from NetBoot Across Subnets package by Three Ways to Netboot Across Subnets | Mac Admin Corner

Three Ways to Netboot Across Subnets | Mac Admin Corner — Sat, 12 May 2012 21:01:03 +0000

[...] OS X 10.4 era). The product still works somewhat, but PPC booting broke when Leopard came out. I posted a fix a couple years ago. These instructions can be used for imaging via Deploy Studio, [...]

Comment on Silent Install of IBM SPSS Statistics 19 for Mac by John Staplehurst

John Staplehurst — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:23:08 +0000

Got a successful silent install of SPSS 20, but notice that SPSS 20.0.0.1 (Fix Pack 1 in the new IBM terminology) is now available – but only as an .app. I guess it’s another Instal Anywhere packaged updater. Anyone managed to instal that silently? Or suggest another mass deployment strategy (I have ARD and Munki available).

Comment on Detecting Flashback.K with Absolute Manage by Use Absolute Manage to detect the Flashback Trojan

Use Absolute Manage to detect the Flashback Trojan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:04:15 +0000

[...] sites offer instructions on manual detection and removal of Flashback. Over at Macadmin, Patrick shows how you can use Absolute Manage to automate these steps. Category: Absolute Manage, Absolute [...]

Comment on Migrate Local User to Domain Account by Craig Richardson

Craig Richardson — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:03:40 +0000

See my post earlier in the thread for changes to make to the script for Lion. I’ve run this on about a hundred Macs now and its working just fine.

One tip though with Lion. Don’t run this immediately after binding the machine to AD. Bind the machine however you normally would (script or manually) then restart it and perform at least one login as a network user.

Then logout, login as a local admin to migrate all the other local user accounts on the Mac.

Comment on Migrate Local User to Domain Account by vasco

vasco — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:33:43 +0000

@Patrick

I had the same effect in Lion Timothy mentoined. Is there any chance that you goint to update the script or can you give us any advice?

Thank’s!

Comment on Allow Non-Admin users to Manage Printers by SURIYA

SURIYA — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:00:10 +0000

i am need how to set password permissions in security while expoting pdf using apple script

Comment on Silent Install of IBM SPSS Statistics 19 for Mac by Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:27:41 +0000

@marcia

The properties file is just a text file. Open it in TextEdit.

Comment on Migrate Local User to Domain Account by Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:47:11 +0000

@Timothy

That’s not the normal result of this script. I haven’t used this script in a long time so it’s possible it needs to be updated for Lion. We mainly used it while we were migrating to AD, that’s long done now and all our new deployments start off with AD.

One thing that stands out is that Lion now has the opendirectoryd process instead of DirectoryService so that bit would need to be updated in this script.

Comment on Migrate Local User to Domain Account by Timothy

Timothy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:04:52 +0000

This script worked for me, sort of. It orphaned the existing local admin account and all its content. I was obliged to set perms on the orphaned account and populate them down through that structure, then copy over content from Documents to AD user Documents, Pictures to Pictures, Movies to Movies…. How was this script helpful then?

Comment on Securing SSH on Mac OS X by limiting who can log in by Mike

Mike — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:20:49 +0000

Thanks for this. I come from the Linux/BSD world, where configuring SSH is simpler. Apple saw fit to add the SACL stuff, which was preventing me from adding another SSH-capable user to my wife’s machine.