STEPS:
1) Click on the Apple logo at the far left of the menu bar and select “System Preferences”.
STEPS:
1) Click on the Apple logo at the far left of the menu bar and select “System Preferences”.
This command-line tool displays a history of user accounts that were logged into the computer as well as the time and date of access from up to 2 months prior. It will even tell you the amount of time users spent logged in. I’ve had to use this method several times to catch high school students who were using their college friend’s usernames and passwords to login to our lab computers. So here’s how, its really simple..
The “Other” account option at the mac login screen is enabled by default. Networked users can login via Active Directory (AD) or Open Directory by choosing this option. However, in some enterprise situations it’s safer to hide the “Other” option. For example, our Art Department’s file server uses AD to manage student access to its its network sharepoints. One day I noticed a student was logged into the server itself (it’s located in one of the labs and looks like any other computer…don’t ask). Not good. By hiding the “Other” option from the login screen I was able to prevent students from locally accessing the server.
Curtain mode in Apple Remote Desktop to allows IT Admins to lock a remote computer’s screen while displaying a customized message while you work on it (for maintanence/updates etc.) It gives you the freedom to do what you need to do without any user interference. However, the current version of ARD has a small bug where the ARD daemon often dies on the remote server causing the client machine to become unresponsive. From my experience this usually happens if you forget to disable curtain mode before logging out a remote client. You will not be able to remote back into it, ARD will just hang at “Connecting to…”
This error came after installing CS6 on the lab computers manually (one-by-one). Usually if you’re in a local account like “admin” the error should fix itself the first time around, but when you’re dealing with user templates and student accounts, it’ll keep popping up every time Flash is opened. Definitely not what we want.
I came across this problem while trying to erase a partition on one of our file servers. After an hour or so of intense frustration, I came up with two ways to fix this..
I nearly had a heart attack when this happened. I was making configurations on our file server, and after rebooting came across the spinning wheel of death. Fortunately I was able to narrow the problem down to two things: either a file(s) required at launch became corrupt, or system-level file permissions got screwed up.
This is caused by copying certain plist files, or in some cases the entire English.lproj
folder over to the User Template without closing all open windows first. Unless something is done about it, the app window(s) (Terminal, Finder, Safari, etc.) will pop-up at every student login.
With the previous Adobe Creative Suite software versions, once you input the serial number and Adobe ID credentials it asks for in the beginning, you could deploy the image out to the labs with no problems. However, starting with CS6, image deployment breaks the license (serial + credentials) which is a pain because you end up having to manually input the serial number and credentials into each computer in every lab. Fortunately, the folks at Adobe have come up with a solution to this mess. Not only does it save us time but it helps keep our hair black (or blonde…or red…whatever color your hair is. As long as it doesn’t turn white). They’ve even blessed us with a video presentation on how to do it.