Month: December 2010

Cannot Launch Applications From NetBoot Image

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I just spent too many hours struggling with a newly created NetBoot Image that booted, but would not launch any applications from the dock & the item that was due to launch at login didn’t (Casper Imaging). However, if i logged out the NetBoot user & logged back in, all was well!

Come midnight (I was remotely NetBooting a machine), I decided to cut my losses & come in next day which was my day off.

Turns out the NetBoot was fine, the issue was simply that the iMac was building had a PC Keyboard connected & not a Mac one!!

As the tagline says, doing the donkey work to make you look like a smart ass!!

Setting the default user settings in Universal Type Server v2

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We’re using Universal Type Server (UTS) for our Font Management, UTS is set to authenticate against our AD with security groups giving access to various Font Workgroups.

As we’ve such a large AD, we’re using an MS SQL Database to host all of our user records.

This is all working well, except the default user settings are as per the above, the below advises what we wished to change the default setting to and how this was accomplished.

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