[knowmad]

and now to punch the deceased equine:

can this be done via MCX?
I have a vauge memory of seeing that elsewhere.
(and yes, I am a total believer in MCX whenever possible.)

[knowmad]

and just to kick the horse that passed away:
a lot of those defaults can be set via MCX.
actually all of it can.
OR
write the defaults to the English.lproj
worth considering….. really

[knowmad]

pepjin, if you simplify that, every new user here will rejoice, and the old ones will sigh with a bit of relief.
Simplifying the choices file would mean I would use it more often.
you have my vote.

[knowmad]

dumb question,
When you placed the printers.conf file…. did you make certain you had the right permissions on it?
conceivably if you screw up the permissions, no one can read it… or worse, no one can read it and a new one cannot be created.

[knowmad]

also,
you can run the command line to check the output result of your file, check out explination at:

[url]https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=18907[/url]
basic is:
[code]sudo installer -target /Volumes/InstaDMG_Target -showChoicesAfterApplyingChangesXML Desktop/Leopard_Choices.xml -pkg /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg > /Users/Shared/OSInstall.mpkg_afterChoiceXML.xml[/code]

of course change your specific file names and locations to match what your doing and don’t forget to mark the target correctly.

[knowmad]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: digitol[/u][p]Hope this Guide will Help out:

http://www.tcsn.net/mont/hiddenuserleopard/welcome.html

-Digito-[/p][/QUOTE]

link is dead

[knowmad]

happy to give you the answer you are looking for:
I use installerchoices files with my office 08 install.
Hell, if you wanted to I think you could even use such with the updates, though I never tried.
here is the contents of my installer choices file:

[code]
messenger

[/code]
heh – I did not realize until now that the only thing I am dumping from it is messenger.
Oh well, I hope that helps.

[knowmad]

well…. so far so good…. but I have no idea how stable this will be because it was reported earlier (unless my memory is messed up) that the retail disc + 10.5.5 would seemingly work on the newer machines, though it was assumed that something would eventually show up as broken and die.
As such, YMMV, but I have built a retail + 10.5.6 image that seems to work, has all the ‘updated’ pref-panes….. Oddly none of my MCX record changes took, so I need to redo those or figure out why they did not work…..
plus I have found permissions issues for the default user folders that I do not get when applying this image to an older macbook or MBP…. no clue how that works but…. i nee to do some more work on the image.

[knowmad]

on mine I found an interesting thing….. on the ones that did not install, which had changed since the last time I ran instadmg from working to not, I found the folder permissions were not allowing group and other to write.
testing the fix now.

[knowmad]

OK, similar issue here, just showed up last night.
I thought I was going nuts.
Office install that worked in the past stopped working, then it came back and another installer disappeared.
….
any ideas?
The only change I have made is that these runs were being done off of the install disks for the very newest MBook, and as such there might be SOMETHING that was not there in the past…. but thats all I have to go on.

[knowmad]

So … it did work with just 01,02,03…?
ie, is your issue resolved?

[knowmad]

This is a system we used WAY back when I was running the labs at queens college, think os 7/8/9 days. We used a program called RevRdist to keep machines up to date and inline. We ran into a problem of people renaming hard drives and thereby messing with the RevRdist runs.
We made a script that ran at boot, noon and 5pm. It was apple script and it basically looked at a hidden file that was set in place by the last RevRdist run. If the HD was named the same as that file, it did nothing. If the names differed, it changed the HD to match.

We also use to run several other scripts in a similar fashion …script checks for presence of an empty hidden file, if not there, run script and create file then quit, if it is there then don’t run.

You might be able to set a cron job that checks the name of the computer once an hour, same with shares…..
course there are ways to make MCX do this with fewer issues…..
more on that when my boss is not walking down the hall.

[knowmad]

ok, silly/dumb questions because I am not awake yet….. (maybe I should wait and read after coffee…. nah I’ll just ask)
1) you are referring to etcadmin ….. is that because your account is named etcadmin or because your account is hidden (why you would put it there I don’t know) in the etc folder….?

Am I correct in assuming it would read something like this if my account was named ACCOUNTNAME: (grabbed code from an earlier example in the thread but it should suffice to understand the situation)
[code]
#!/bin/sh

#Enable ARD for ACCOUNTNAME
“$3″/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -targetdisk “$3” -configure -allowAccessFor -specifiedUsers
“$3″/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -targetdisk “$3” -activate -configure -access -on -users “ACCOUNTNAME” -privs -all -restart -agent

exit 0[/code]

2) creating the permissions you are referring to is done separately from creating the accounts in dslocal?

3) Please break this down into a time line of when your doing what…. ie something like adding events to this list:
a) instadmg
b) reboot/firstboot
c) boot script
d) login script
because I am am not following something and I think it is in that time line.

Thank you,
Knowmad – asking the dumb questions so you don’t have to.

[knowmad]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: chilcote[/u][p]
I did not have luck using InstaDMG with the new install disk images. The second install disc is now called Applications Install Disc, and contains an installer distribution package for the optional installs. InstaDMG just skipped that disk image. I tried putting it in my BaseUpdates in place of a numbered folder, but no go. Haven’t mucked around with it since that first try.
–joe[/p][/QUOTE]

WAY way back in the early days of instadmg (about a year, maybe a wee bit more than that) I (and others) found that if you had a two disk install set you could get instadmg to use/find the second disk by simply mounting it before you started.
I am trying this in the next fifteen minutes.
knowmad

[knowmad]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: trondah[/u][p]This time I removed any other customizations to the loginwindow also, gonna try to find out if any of those was the culprit or if it’s just a matter of using PlistBuddy.[/QUOTE]

Please keep us posted. If it was just plistbuddy vs defaults…. thats REALLY important to know, it would change quite a bit of how I work.
knowmad

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