This is in the firmware of the DVD drive, it is not an OS
setting and can not be made part of your image. You pretty much have
to wander to each Mac, slide a DVD of the region you want into drive,
and set the region. You either need to be logged in as an admin, or
provide and admin account login + password when asked since only
Admin accounts have permissions to set the drive region. In my
searching I have not found a command line utility to set the drive
region either via a script or remotely via ssh. Makes me feel more
confident of that when someone like Josh doesn't mention one either :-).
On Josh's comment about /etc/authorization, just be aware of the
implications of such a change in your environment. In my environment
that would be a bad choice - academic computer labs at a 39,000
student University that are open 18 hours a day. You only get 5
changes of the DVD Region and then you are stuck at what ever the
last region set was baring some serious firmware hacking. In my
world there is the risk that machines, especially over their 3-4 year
usage span in our labs, could end up being stuck on various different
regions since there are DVD's of several different regions wandering
around campus. In your environment, that may not be such a problem -
if I ran offices rather than labs I would be much more likely to do
that.
Tom "Macintosh Doctor" Johnson
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On Aug 31, 2005, at 9:45, Josh Wisenbaker wrote:
On Wednesday, August 31, 2005, at 10:38AM, Brad Schonhorst
<email@hidden> wrote:
I've imaged all our iMacs and eMacs with our perfect image.
Unfortunately I didn't set up the DVD player before hand : (
One a use puts a DVD in they are asked what region they want to set
the DVD player to. This requires an Admin login. I was hoping to
track down the preference file and distribute it via ARD. Does
anyone know where this setting gets stored?
IIRC, it sets the firmware of the drive.
You can edit /etc/authorization though and delegate the ability to
set the region to a non-admin though.
josh
www.afp548.com
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