ARD, Deep Freeze for Mac

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ARD, Deep Freeze for Mac

Anyone having issues sending the Deep Freeze tasks through ARD to client mac's? Every time i try to send the task to do anything, boot thawed, frozen etc... the command works, however nothing happens. The machine doesn't reboot. I'm using the latest ARD, with Leopard 10.5.6. Any thoughts?

Posted on Jun 2, 2009 8:43 AM

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Answer 1

varjak paw

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Jun 2, 2009 10:42 AM in response to lifeisgood416

You may want to take that up with Faronics, since it's probably not an ARD problem per se. You can contact Faronics tech support, or you can ask in the Faronics forums.

Regards.

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Answer 2

fizzboy

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Jul 2, 2009 10:27 PM in response to lifeisgood416

I use the Deep Freeze tasks regularly through ARD to thaw and freeze entire labs with no problems. One thing to keep in mind is the default tasks that they install will perform the action and just that. You have to send a second command to actually reboot the computer, if I recall correctly.

I say that because I ended up re-writing all of the task scripts and tacked on a /sbin/reboot onto the end just to save myself 5 seconds. 😉

Oh, and if you put single quotes (') around your Deep Freeze admin password in the task script, you can use punctuation marks in the password despite what their silly documentation says.

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