Re: Could AppleScript help here?
Re: Could AppleScript help here?
- Subject: Re: Could AppleScript help here?
- From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:00:07 -0800
Thanks for your comment, Rob.
Well, I did find an approach. I hadn't noticed until someone pointed it out that Airport Utility has commands to Export and Import an XML file which appears to control everything. That, with Smile's XMLlib, might be all I need.
Stop me if someone's already done this.
--Gil
> On Feb 13, 2016, at 7:40 PM, Gil Dawson <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi--
>
> In our home, Wi-Fi security is achieved by listing the permitted machines' MAC addresses in our Airports. Making a list of these addresses used to be as simple as making a screen grab of the table in Airport Utility.
>
> Now, with MacOS 10.11.3 and Airport Utility 6.3.6, the table at Network > Timed Access Control... > Wireless Clients no longer lists the MAC addresses. You can view them one at a time, but you can't view them all at once.
>
> Has anyone experience to suggest an AppleScript approach -- perhaps with Terminal commands, or maybe GUI Scripting -- to view the Airport's clients' names and MAC addresses in some sort of list?
>
> --Gil
>
> MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), Time Capsule Version 7.6.4
> On Feb 15, 2016, at 12:02 PM, Rob Lewis <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I have long felt that there was a need for a single utility that combined the various tedious steps in setting up a LAN with a local name server and unchanging IP addresses.
>
> Here’s how I have to do it now:
> 1. Make a list of all my networked devices, their MAC addresses, and the IP addresses and host names I want to give them.
> 2. Log into my router’s less-than-friendly interface, go to the DHCP section, and enter the MAC and IP address information in the “static leases” table. (An operation that, at least with my router’s version of OpenWRT, can fail and cause other problems.)
> 3. Open up the OS X Server application, and in the DNS section, type in every device’s IP address and host name (I use the “.lan” top-level domain for my LAN).
> 4. Make sure every device on the LAN is set to use DHCP and my local name server.
>
> This is a huge time waster, and making changes is painful (as is troubleshooting). How great it would be if there was a script or program that did all this!
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