ARD Commands

Question

Good afternoon:
I'm looking for two seperate commands:
1. I'd like to be able to log an entire lab in with a common user name and password without having to touch each screen
2. I'd like to be able to push out new Active Directory binding settings to a group of computers (i.e. change smb to afp)
Any assitance is appreciate!
Thanks,
Jay
P.S. Any good reference books out there on this topic that you'd recommend?

Answer 1

For multiple user log on use:
osascript <<EOF
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "username"
keystroke tab
delay 0.5
keystroke "password"
delay 0.5
keystroke return
end tell
EOF
For number 2 and assuming there's an existing AD configuration:
dsconfigad -protocol afp
Or:
dsconfigad -protocol smb
If you're trying to do one from scratch and using example.com as the example assuming you want all the "bells and whistles" you could use:
dsconfigad -f -domain examle.com -u ADadminname -p ADadminpassword -ou OU=Computers,DC=example,DC=com -preferred IPAddressofDC -localhome disable -protocl smb -passinterval 0
Run the commands root.
I don't know of anything specific or detailed enough TBH. IMHO looking at the man pages in Terminal is as good a place as any to start.
HTH?
Tony