RE: Profile monitor for many users
RE: Profile monitor for many users
- Subject: RE: Profile monitor for many users
- From: Matthew Finlay <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 11:06:41 +1000
- Thread-topic: Profile monitor for many users
Hi jt,
Thank you for sharing your solution!
Much appreciated...
From: Jonathan Taylor [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 4:03 AM
To: Matthew Finlay
Cc: Peter Miles; John Gnaegy; email@hidden
Subject: Re: Profile monitor for many users
Hi Matt,
Sorry for the slow reply-- busy time of year!
I've setup calibrated labs under Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard. Tiger
was simplest (and perhaps didn't have his problem), but none of my labs
use it any more. For practical purposes Leopard and Snow Leopard
function about the same in my experience. Other particulars depend on
what kind of network accounts and options your school uses (Active
Directory, Open Directory, Network Home Directories, and so on).
The simplest scenario is multiple local accounts on a single workstation
or basic network accounts on identical cloned workstations. (The
behavior is essentially the same.) Here goes:
1) Get the Mac calibrated, and name the calibrated profile something
obvious and purposeful like, "Calibrated iMac A1." The profile name
should (of course) be machine specific (A1 in my example) but not
include any date info-- because once you have it setup you will update
the calibration to a profile of the same name, and all users, even newly
created users, will still get the correct (and updated) monitor profile.
2) If necessary move the profile to Macintosh
HD>Library>ColorSync>Profiles. (You could put it into Profiles>Displays,
but it's not necessary, and I don't recommend it.) For simplicity and
clarity delete any copies of the calibrated display profile that may
exist in any other location like the Users Library.
3) Be sure that permissions are set to read & write for all users and
groups.
4) Now go into System Prefs>Displays>Color and reset the profile to the
calibrated one you just made and moved.
5) To facilitate easy testing go to System Prefs>Accounts and enable the
built-in Guest account.
6) Logout.
7) Login as root user (assuming you have enabled root). Navigate to
Macintosh HD>System>Library>/User Template/English.lproj. Copy the
ByHost folder from the admin user's Library>Preferences folder to the
corresponding folder in English.lproj.
8) It's probably not necessary, but I also copy
com.apple.systempreferences.plist from the user's Library>Preferences
folder to the corresponding folder in English.lproj.
9) Logout. Login as guest. Go to System Preferences>Displays>Color to
verify that it is set to the correct calibrated profile.
It think that should be all right and accurate, but I mostly wrote it
from memory, so let me know if anything doesn't work or make sense.
jt
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Matthew Finlay
<email@hidden> wrote:
Hi jt,
What OS are you running with this scenario?
This sounds like it could be the solution I am looking for...
Also can you please be more specific with the "Default User Template"?
what is the path to this location?
I have tried a few tests where I modified a couple of the profile path
strings manually in some of the different ".GlobalPreference" files that
I could find, but none have had the desired results so far...
Will this profile be set as the "Display Profile" for all new users as
well as current users on the local mac?
Thank you.
Matt
From: Jonathan Taylor [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 2:17 PM
To: Peter Miles
Cc: John Gnaegy; Matthew Finlay; email@hidden
Subject: Re: Profile monitor for many users
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Peter Miles <email@hidden>
wrote:
I find it frustrating that while we provide a good custom
monitor profiles on the HD of each work station, the OS does not allow
us to select any of them as the initial choice for users that have not
previously expressed any preference for a monitor profile.
But Peter and all there are already two solutions to this problem, and
they work very well and reliably:
1) Use the Default User Template to make sure that all users get the
correct ByHost folder. I have an Active Directory college photo lab and
a public arts organization photo lab with local user accounts using this
method. As long as the calibrated profile is set in Default User
Template first, any and all subsequent users pickup and use the
specified calibrated profile by default.
2) If you have an OS X Server use Workgroup Manager to manage the
Display prefs on an individual workstation basis. Specifically you
manage the .GlobalPreferences.ByHost -->> com.apple.ColorSync.Devices
-->> Device.mntr.xxx... -->> CustomProfiles. Then any and all network
and local users will get the correct profile. It can take a while to get
all the manifest info right and work, but once you do it couldn't more
smooth and easy. I've attached a screen shot for any who are interested.
Both these solutions require that you have the desired profile in main
Library -->> ColorSync -->> Profiles directory (not an individual's
Library) and have permissions open to all.
jt
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