ARD Show when being observed

Does anyone know if there's anyway to set it so that users can allow or deny being observed/controlled through ARD? And is tehre a way to push it out through unix command?

You can turn off the Control/Observe privilege, and turn on the "Anyone may request permission..." checkbox under "Computer Settings...".
This will present a dialog to the user when the admin requests to observe/control the system. Note that the downside to this is that if no user is at the machine, you can't gain access. It might be possible to work around this with the "VNC viewers may control screen with password" option... I'm not certain.

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"show when being observed" not showing

All machines are OS 10.8.5, Remote desktop on clients and master machine is 3.7.1
Although "show when being observed" is selected in the remote management settings on the client, the menu icon that should show up on observation doesn't show.
If I try to trigger it manually by double-clicking Macintosh HD/System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras/RemoteDesktop.menu still no icon is displayed. However no entry indicating a problem is listed in the system log in console.
For comparison, the other menu icons triggered by double clicking the files in the Menu Extras folder work fine (eject, homesync status, etc).
Does anyone know of software that interferes with the "show when being observed" function?
Is there a command line way of enabling this on the client?
Thanks in advance.

Hi
". . . is there a command line way of enabling this on the client?"
Yes. Try:
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/ki ckstart -configure -clientopts -setmenuextra -menuextra yes
The above is all on one line and must be run as root. To disable the option replace 'yes' with 'no'.
The manual for kickstart is available by simply typing:
man /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent/Contents/Resources/kicks tart
in Terminal.
" . . . Does anyone know of software that interferes with the "show when being observed" function?"
Possibly the topology and/or physical health of your network? Assuming a stock OS install, a healthy drive and with nothing 3rd-Party added it should j'ust work'. By 3rd-Party I don't mean applications such as Adobe CS etc. I mean Little Snitch, Onyx etc and a whole host of other 'system' or 'utility' programs that on the surface appear to 'help' but in fact may be mudying the waters?
HTH?
Tony

Show when being observed check box

Anyone know of a script that will look every hour to see if the "show when being observed" check box is enable or not, and then enable it if not?
Thanks

I need it to run on multiple clients.
You can run that task on whatever clients you want. Just select the clients before you schedule and save the task. The task will then automatically run for the clients you selected.
Also, it is not the visibility in the menu bar that I care much about as that can be on while the show while observed is off.
In the latest client (at least as of 3.2; I can't remember about 3.1 and 3.0) it's all one preference. There's no separate setting just for the "show while being observed"; if the menu bar item is showing, it will show when the system is being observed.

Batch Comamand to Change "Show When Being Observed" on clients to OFF?

I administer roughly 70 machines via ARD3 and have a question:
Is it possible to turn "Show When Being Observed" off on all machines without having to crawl thru each one one-by-one?
I am also using Workgroup Manager to admin all the machines via Open Directory but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to do this.

OK, I can't find the appropriate .plist file for the life of me.
It is not the com.apple.RemoteDesktop.plist one as that is for the Admin Application only. As far as I can see, when I make channges to the setting manually, the com.apple.SystemPreferences file changes, but I don't think the setting is there and I think the Finder shows it simply because I am in the System Prefs and unlocking it, etc.
So in short, I can't figure out what .plist nor what string to add. Any help?

Show when observing or controlling machine

Is there a way to tell a client computer that you (the admin) are observing or controlling their machine? I have "Show when being observed" checked in the Sharing pref pane, but I want my users to know they do have some privacy.

You can send a message to the computer using "Send Message" from the "Interact" menu.

ARD Client Doesn't Show When Using Scanner and Network Range

All-
When I use the Scanner in ARD3 to scan a remote Network Range over the internet, the ARD client that I KNOW EXISTS in that same IP range DOES NOT show up (other ARD clients that I'm not interested in do show up, but not the specific ARD client I need to observe/control).
If I then call the user at the remote ARD client on the telephone, and have them give me their IP address (using www.whatismyip.com, for example), I can use the Scanner in ARD3 to "find" the ARD client and add it to my All Computers list. Process: change the popup box to read "Network Address" instead of "Network Range" and set the IP address field to the address provided by the user.
Why doesn't the remote ARD client show up when I scan for it using a Network Range in ARD3? Obviously, I don't want to have to call up each user every time I need to perform maintenance/control a client to get their (dynamic) IP address.
I could use dynamic DNS, but that's overkill. If I know (from experience) that my ARD clients are in IP ranges X, Y, and Z, then I SHOULD be able to simply scan for them (or so I thought).
Any help appreceated.

Updated to ARD3.1 (admin and clients), but that did not solve the issue.
Let me try to restate the problem:
The ARD client is out of state/across the country (i.e., different sub-net) using a dynamically assigned IP adddress. I can (for now) connect to that ARD client successfully, and perform all ARD functions (that I've tried so far) becasue I know (for now) that client's IP address (I called and spoke with the user who used www.whatismyip.com to give me their IP address). So what's the problem, you ask?
Some time in the future, that same ARD client will have a new, dynamically assigned IP address. I'd like to be able to connect to that client without having to call on the telephone and ask the user what IP address they have been assigned now.
My thinking was that I could make a pretty good guess at their IP address (based on their old IP address, and the way Cable and Telco ISPs allocate/lease IP addresses). For example, if their current dynamic IP address is 999.888.777.45, I could guess that a subsequent dynamically assigned IP address would be in the range 999.888.777.2 to 999.888.777.255. With ARD, I could simply scan that range of network addresses using the Scanner and quickly find the ARD client I want.
I tried to do just that, and the ARD scanner did not find my client when I scanned the network range that the ARD client was actually in. It showed other ARD clients (that I do not administer, own, or want to hack into), but not the one I do want to observe/control/maintain (and have a legal right to). Somewhat paradoxically, when I used the Scanner to find the same ARD client by specific IP address, there was no problem.
Why doesn't the ARD Scanner "see" the ARD client when scanning the network range?

An app which I have never purchased shows as an update on the App store. When I try to deal qith it shows as being purchased by someone with a different apple id than me. No one else uses my Macbook Pro. Any ideas???

An app which I have never purchased shows as an update on the App store. When I try to deal with it shows as being purchased by someone with a different apple id than me. No one else uses my Macbook Pro. A "Genius" at one of my local Apple stores spent over 2 hours trying to fix this and could not do it. His last suuggestion was to go home, back up all the data an take the computer back to the Apple store to reinstall the operating system. Any simpler ideas to solve this problem.???

Post in the App Store forum:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_app_store

I have removed all movies to Seagate portable drive to free up space on the startup disc and can confirm all can not be found on my computer, however it still shows as being there when i check storage ???

I have removed all movies to Seagate portable drive to free up space on the startup disc and can confirm they are no longer on my computer after doing a search, i trashed them and then emptied the trash, however they still show as being there when i check storage on the startup disc???????, can anyone advise what is happening here?

Try reindexing spotlight on the Startup drive.
Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes - Apple Support

When i check my email on my iphone 4 it doesnt show as being read on my Outlook. I have reset the phone but it still doesn't help. I have checked all settings but to no avail.This is an exchange email.

When i check my email on my iphone 4 it does not show as being read on my outlook 2010. I have had my phone reset per apples request but still no good. I have checked all push setting but it all looks normal. This is driving me nuts. Any ideas? This is an exchange email account.

If a phone is sold from one friend to another and wants to use it on a different carrier the friend can contact the carrier it was sold by to request it unlocked. I know AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint will give you the steps to unlock it as long as the original contract it was bought under has been completed. eBay/Craigslist is really not the best place to try to get "unlocked phones" from, if it turns out the phone isn't unlocked then I'm really sorry you got stuck with that one and as stevejobsfan said above I would report them immediately and see if you can recover your money. I sell phones for a living and this happens a lot

Not all computers showing up in observe panel

I have selected 23 computers in my ARD panel and clicked Observe. However, only 20 computers are showing up in the window. When I try to scroll to the right, the remaining two computers are hidden to the side, but sometimes scrolling doesn't work for a reason I can't figure out.
In fact, no matter how many computers I have selected in the list, it always leaves 2 off.
I've already looked in the settings panel and set the # of computers per screen as high as it will go, and it still only shows a partial list.

Sounds like you have "Compilations" switched on.
In Itunes look at "get info" for the missing artists and see if the part of a compilation box is checked.
On you iPod go to settings>compilations and toggle it to off
To get the artists to show up on the Ipod you only need to do step 2.
When you have the compiliations features switched on (in either iTunes or iPod) artists that only have albums that are compilations will not show up in the artist list.
As for your other problem you can sort the columns by clicking on the title bar at the top, to sort by artist or you can add something to the "Greatest Hits" album title to differentiate it - for example all my greatest hits albums are titled GH - Artist so I know which one is which

Ie9 flash object not showing when wmode is set

I'm searching and searching but do not find any solution for this.
We're having a flex web application that is working fine until now. We're using until recently the google maps flash api, unfortunately this is already deprecated and will disappear completely in september 2014. Therefor we moved the whole integration to the js v3 api, which is working fine. The whole thing is an overlay over the application, since everything is moved to js, I added the property wmode to the object in html and set it to opaque in order to be able to layer everything. It's working fine for most people, but some (including my boss) are seeing a blank screen. Seems that nothing happens (although the swf loads), and I can not figure out why. Same browser (ie 9 or 10), same flash player version (11.6.xxx). Browser cache cleared, flash player cache cleared...
Somebody having a clue? Removing the wmode-property solves the issue, but then I'm not be able to get my map on top of the application.
The swf is definetly loading since I see calls made to the server in order to login etc. It's also not a flash player issue. The swf-file is directly accessable and rendering if done so.
Thanks
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This means that the SWF is written so that it only works when
embedded in a web page. When you add the SWF to the stage as a
stand-alone display object using addChild() it is not being hosted
in the web page.
You have 2 options:
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if I have gotten the terminology wrong I apologize, but I HAVE
written a flash application that worked as I describe). My SWF
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figured out exactly how to do this, so If anyone can provide
information on how to do this, I too would be appreciative.

ITunes 10.2.1 shows tv show as being IN my iPhone4, but iPhone doesn't!

iTunes 10.2.1 shows a tv show as being IN my iPhone4 (Devices > iPhone pop down > TV shows) and Not Viewed, but after I sync and look in the iPhone, the tv show is not there.
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When I look in iTunes' iPhone sections (when iPhone is plugged in) and go to the TV shows section (main window), it shows the TV show name with the episodes listed (ep 4 - 10) and episode #4 is ticked but grayed out.
I have automatically include *the oldest unwatched* episode of *selected shows* setting.
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I transferred itunes library from old PC to new PC. The content all shows when I launch iTunes on the new PC now. The previous content does not show in iTunes but folder still looks like it is on hard drive on new PC. Suggestions on how to properly merge?

I transferred itunes library from old PC to new PC. The content all shows when I launch iTunes on the new PC now. The previous content does not show in iTunes but folder still looks like it is on hard drive on new PC. Suggestions on how to properly merge?

Before you connect any device to a new library go to the Devices tab of the the preferences panel via Edit > Preferences (Windows) or iTunes > Preferences (Mac) and ensure the box next to Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically is ticked. You can now safely connect the device to your computer without the danger of media being automatically deleted or overwritten.
To get all your content off your connect your iPad to your new computer.
Then use a 3rd party piece of software to transfer your content
I have found Senuti useful but there are others listed in the article I linked to in a previous post.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991
That will let you transfer your non purchased content
For Purchased content log in to iTunes on the new computer
In Itunes Store click on Purchased under the Quick Links section on the right.
Download any music by clicking on the cloud button

My external hard drive does not show when I am trying to open a document in Office Org??

My external hard drive does not show when I am trying to open a document in Office Org?? When looking in the about IMAC system support it shows as being connected. Any ideas??

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Re-sent Sent Email In Outlook 2010 Showing as Being Sent to the Previous Recipient

When re-sending a previously sent item from within Outlook 2010, after a few seconds, the newly re-sent email is showing as being sent to the last recipient who the email is sent to. For example;
I send an email to [email protected] I then want to send the email to [email protected].. so I click Sent Items, double click the email I have just sent, on the Message tab in the Move group, I click Actions and then click Resend This Message.
I remove the original recipient and add the new recipient and click Send.
I check my sent items a few seconds later and the newly sent email ([email protected]) is showing as being sent to [email protected] However, the re-sent email has actually be sent to the correct recipient.
I would appreciate any advice on this.

Hi,
I assume this issue is related to the corrupted nickname cache. Does this issue occur with certain recipients? If so, I suggest you remove the nickname cache entries of these recipients:
Open a new email message.
Type the first few characters of the nickname cache entry that you want to remove from the cache.
When the entry appears in the list of suggested names, move your mouse pointer over the name until it becomes highlighted, but do not click the name.
When the “X” icon appears next to the highlighted name, click X to remove the name from the list.
If this happens to all recipients, we can consider to reset the whole Outlook nickname cache for Outlook 2010:
Open Outlook 2010.
On the File tab, click Options.
Click the Mail tab.
Under Send Messages, click Empty Auto-Complete List.
Click Yes.
I hope the information is helpful to you.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

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