Category Archives: Labs

Posts about computer labs and classrooms at Williams College

Windows 10 – SMB Guest access denied by default

Posted on July 6, 2020 by

Windows 10 now, by default, denies an SMB client from connecting to an SMB server with “guest access”.  See: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4046019/guest-access-in-smb2-disabled-by-default-in-windows-10-and-windows-ser The temporary fix is to change the registry to allow guest account access With windows regedit I set : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 – Remote Desktop Access for AD group

Posted on June 10, 2020 by

To allow users in an AD group to access windows 10 desktops remotely … 1) Create the group as a global group in the AD 2) Create an OU for computers that will be in the “Remote Access Pool” 3) … Continue reading →

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Mac – JAMF manual agent installation

Posted on May 26, 2020 by

Sometimes, (in my case when using DEP enrollment on a slow wifi connection) the Jamf agent doesn’t get installed properly during DEP enrollment. To fix that here is what I did: I first ran the following commands to manually download … Continue reading →

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MacOS – Add Active Domain group to local mac group

Posted on March 30, 2020 by

In testing, we found that remote connections from windows clients to the built-in macOS VNC server were not encrypted in any way. To resolve this we decided to use RealVNC as the screen sharing server on Macs. Also, since we … Continue reading →

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Windows – Windows to Go – Portable Windows on an external disk

Posted on October 3, 2019 by

“Windows To Go” is a portable windows environment that Microsoft developed. While Microsoft says they are no longer developing this, it is still available for use on recent versions of windows 10. For the Microsoft overview see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/planning/windows-to-go-overview I have … Continue reading →

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MacOS – Disabling Sleep option from Finder menu

Posted on September 11, 2019 by

We find that if people manually sleep a mac running Mojave (10.14.5) from the Finder menu that mac is then nearly impossible to wake up. So, at least on lecterns, I am using this command to disable the sleep menu … Continue reading →

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MacOS – Script – Getting the logged in user

Posted on September 6, 2019 by

loggedInUser=$( scutil <<< "show State:/Users/ConsoleUser" | awk '/Name :/ && ! /loginwindow/ { print $3 }' ) For more details see: https://scriptingosx.com/2019/09/get-current-user-in-shell-scripts-on-macos/

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Windows 10 – Creating Image for Windows to Go external disks

Posted on July 24, 2019 by

In 2018 we started using “Windows to Go” on externally boot-able disks to provide the “windows” half of a dual-boot mac. To make this work you need to do the following … 1) Purchase really fast external SSD drives of … Continue reading →

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Mac – Installing Spartan ’18 from JAMF

Posted on July 11, 2019 by

To install Spartan ’18 with a network license server correctly as a push from Jamf: 1) First create a package that installs the Spartan ’18 application to the /Applications folder and push that from Jamf 2) Create a script (example … Continue reading →

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