ARD enabling…

[ega]

Has anyone tried to enable ARD with instadmg images? I was hoping maybe someone had an installer to share for 10.5.1 ARD enabling?

[Patrick Fergus]

Depending on how quickly you need it, you can “Create client installer…” and custom-configure it in ARD. Then poke around inside at the postflight scripts inside the resulting installer package and pull the necessary commands out. You probably need to set this up as a StartupItem since I wouldn’t think that the kickstart portion of ARDAgent.app would be able to configure a non-boot drive.

[thegooch49]

Hello, I have a post-install script that is placed during image creation. It’s in /Library/StartupItems, same as the instauser script. It’s just a 1 line kickstart, that turns it on for the pre-configured user that is setup by instauser. This works great for me.

#Configure ARD
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -users YOURUSER -privs -all -restart -agent -menu

[knowmad]

thegooch49 wrote:

Hello, I have a post-install script that is placed during image creation. It’s in /Library/StartupItems, same as the instauser script. It’s just a 1 line kickstart, that turns it on for the pre-configured user that is setup by instauser. This works great for me.

#Configure ARD
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -users YOURUSER -privs -all -restart -agent -menu

Have you tried just adding that to the end of the instauser script?
any effect?

(I did put your line (un-credited as no one but me will ever see it…. mostly…. sorry) in my instauser script, but I think I messed up the rest of the script so i am not certain if it worked or not.)

[thegooch49]

Hi, there is no reason why it wouldn’t work in the instauser script. I just seperate my instauser and postinstall script. My instauser script is static, and never changes. I use a post install script to run stuff that is constantly changing (list of administrators, etc).

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