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No, just use the Remote Desktop admin app
Authored by: ClassicUser on Feb 03, '05 07:27:44PM

Um, not to be pedantic, but:

Why in the world should users manually edit the .plist file which holds the entries for the controlled clients? The *right* way of doing such an update, is to merely remove them from your Remote Desktop "Master List", then re-add them via a local scan, hostname entry, etc.

Manually hacking .plist files should never be the first approach tried after a change to your environment. Use the GUI application and the functions defined in it which write to that .plist; that's why the developers put the functionality in there, folks.

(Oh, and the file would be "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.RemoteDesktop.plist", *not* "/Library/Preferences/com.apple.RemoteDesktop.plist", anyway)



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No, just use the Remote Desktop admin app
Authored by: kcrowderus on Feb 04, '05 02:16:45PM

So I deleted the two iMacs from my list and re-added them. No luck. It was still saying old version, and not allowing me to run commands or install packages.
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I have experienced this as well. Merely removing & re-adding in the gui was not a fix. Thanks for the tip.



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No, just use the Remote Desktop admin app
Authored by: RichB on Feb 17, '05 11:36:08PM

Is it perhaps that using the GUI you have to quit the admin program after deleting computers from the Master list to properly write the preference file? Then after relaunching they could be added. Simply removing from the Master list without quitting and re-adding them may not update the preference file completely. Just guessing.



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