Thanks in advance to anyone who can assist.
I have a Mavericks server managing ~20 macs. MCX is working fine for portable homes, power management, software updates, etc.
JAMF and other management suites are out of the budget. It's only 20 odd machines, so I can touch each one and set the following:
system prefs/keyboard/use all F1, F2, etc. as Function Keys.
I would like to learn how to push this setting to all 20, in case I need to do it again on a larger scale.
Search indicates that this has been a long standing problem. Here's what I've tried so far.
1. Using Apple Remote Desktop, pushing this command:
2. enabling system prefs/keyboard/enable F keys on the server, then copying com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist to the list of MCX records in Workgroup Manager.
3. The machines are rebooting every night, so I suppose some type of login script could be an option as well.
Open to suggestions. Thanks!
I have a Mavericks server managing ~20 macs. MCX is working fine for portable homes, power management, software updates, etc.
JAMF and other management suites are out of the budget. It's only 20 odd machines, so I can touch each one and set the following:
system prefs/keyboard/use all F1, F2, etc. as Function Keys.
I would like to learn how to push this setting to all 20, in case I need to do it again on a larger scale.
Search indicates that this has been a long standing problem. Here's what I've tried so far.
1. Using Apple Remote Desktop, pushing this command:
Code:
defaults write com.apple.keyboard.fnstate -boolean true2. enabling system prefs/keyboard/enable F keys on the server, then copying com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist to the list of MCX records in Workgroup Manager.
3. The machines are rebooting every night, so I suppose some type of login script could be an option as well.
Open to suggestions. Thanks!