August 31

PaperCut Install Steps for Mac Lab

  1. Make a master image
  2. Install the papercut client and printer drivers and delete all the printers
  3. Colone Image
  4. Delete Superduper!
  5. Rename Computer
  6. Disable WiFi Settings   (Go to System Preferences → Network, select your Wi-Fi service and click Advanced…. Enable Require administrator authorization to: Change networks.
  7. Join to Domain
  8. Add Printers
  9. Remove the default user account only keep Mac user account

For Mobile users, laptop users

Go to system preferences -> open Directory Utility -> make sure “create mobile account at login” is checked.

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August 30

Install PaperCut User Client on Mac OS X

Here is the original link

 

To install the User Client on a multi-user system:

  1. Start and log in to the Mac computer.Ensure the Mac computer is connected to the network.
  2. Open the Finder.
  3. From the Go menu, select Connect to Server
  4. Enter the pcclient share’s connection details, for example, smb://server_name/pcclient
  5. Enter password information if requested.
  6. Drag the PCClient (or legacy/PCClient on OS X 10.6 or lower) package to the local hard disk’s Applications folder. The copy process begins.
  7. In the Applications directory, Control+click the newly copied PCClient application.
  8. Select Open Package Contents.
  9. Navigate to Contents/Resources/.
  10. Double-click the install-login-hook.command script.
  11. Restart the system and verify the client starts on login.
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August 24

Using Group Policy Disable UAC

Go to group policy console

Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options

Change the following items:

User Account Control: Behaviour of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode > Change to  ‘Elevate without prompt.’

User Account Control: Detect application installations and prompt for elevation > Change to “Disabled”.

User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode > Change to “Disabled”.

User Account Control: Only elevate UIAccess applications that are installed in secure locations > Change to “Disabled’.

Try this:

User Account Control: Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation:  Disabled

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August 22

A Disk Read Error Occurred

Windows XP, Vista,7,8

Problem:
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

When press Ctrl+Ale+Del no response

Causes:

  • Incorrect or invalid MBR configuration
  • Improperly configured partition table
  • Faulty hard drive
  • IDE cables failing
  • Bad RAM memory  Check the Memory
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August 21

Recovery a Corrupted Registry

  1. Attach the client hard drive to a working computer
  2. Perform the following command

For Windows XP

copy c:\windows\system32\config\system c:\windows\tmp\system.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\software c:\windows\tmp\software.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\security c:\windows\tmp\security.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\default c:\windows\tmp\default.bak

delete c:\windows\system32\config\system
delete c:\windows\system32\config\software
delete c:\windows\system32\config\sam
delete c:\windows\system32\config\security
delete c:\windows\system32\config\default

copy c:\windows\repair\system c:\windows\system32\config\system
copy c:\windows\repair\software c:\windows\system32\config\software
copy c:\windows\repair\sam c:\windows\system32\config\sam
copy c:\windows\repair\security c:\windows\system32\config\security
copy c:\windows\repair\default c:\windows\system32\config\default

For Windows 7,8,10

Look in the \windows\system32\config\regback folder for good files and copy them back to \system32\config folder

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