Comments on: Macworld 2009 MCX presentation

By: GregN

GregN — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:03:57 +0000

I see similar behavior. That must be a relatively new OS bug; I don’t recall seeing that in the past.

I find you can still set the name with the systemsetup binary:

sudo systemsetup -setcomputername “Foobar”

And since I have this scripted anyway, it’s a non-issue for me as far as administration goes, and there’s the side-benefit that a user with admin rights can’t rename the machine.

Still, it’s a bug, so if it affects you, you should report it via bugreporter.apple.com.

-Greg

By: Jason Kuo

Jason Kuo — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:42:16 +0000

Hey Greg,

Thanks for all the help with getting started with Local MCX. I’ve got it implemented on a machine that I’ll be imaging, and I’m running into one issue:

I want to disable automatic login. To do so, I created a computer group called LoginWindow, and then unchecked that ability in the Options tab of the Login Pref pane. Strangely though, when I do that, it also locks out the ability to change the computer name in System Preferences>Computer Name. Any idea what I could be doing to introduce this behavior?

Thanks.

By: GregN

GregN — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:04:08 +0000

Nope.

By: gwinterboer

gwinterboer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:54:35 +0000

You going to attend WWDC 2009?

By: ngriffiths

ngriffiths — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:51:43 +0000

Great stuff!! There never seems to be enough out there on MCX. Wish I could’ve caught the presentation!

By: MCX Lessons from Macworld « NG.Micro

MCX Lessons from Macworld « NG.Micro — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:44:58 +0000

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By: GregN

GregN — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:40:11 +0000

As always: slides != presentation. There’s more to a presentation than the slides, including my talk and the demos. Still, between the slides and my earlier articles (like this one: http://managingosx.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/mcx-dslocal-and-leopard/) you should be able to get the idea…

By: Dan Heaford

Dan Heaford — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:22:37 +0000

Thats Greg that was a good read, I dont suppose theres any way of seeing the demo’s ? Thanks for sharing that very useful.

By: GregN

GregN — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:43:08 +0000

James: that’s not surprising since the person giving the presentation was from a company that sells a cross-platform client management system… It’s not likely that such a person is going to do a fair and balanced overview of the options and approaches.

By: James

James — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:55:05 +0000

Hey,

I attended the MacIT conference and your presentation was great. I originally was attending the presentation next door on managing OSX in mixed environments -> this unfortunately turned out to be a sales demo.