Hi Sabahattin, Yes, interactive actions are problematic. Many System Prefs are configurable via the command line though, so I often ssh in as root and set things that way. Are you positive that the Server app will not update using the SoftwareUpdate tool through ssh and in as root? My readings tell me otherwise although I can't recall for sure if Server app was updated last time I did things in this manner. I, too, usually have a keyboard connected but have done things remotely using ARD's Control feature as well.
For the Server app, as you likely already know, once the Server app has been updated, it needs to be ran again to re-setup services. In ARD, keyboard strokes will be passed through as long as you don't hold down VO keys. So, in ARD, check which app is open, if it is at the Login screen, take control of the Server, press the first letter or two of the user you wish to login as, press return, enter the password and press return again. You can check on if it worked by going out of control mode and seeing which app is active, it should be Finder if the login worked for you. Sometimes, you need to press down on the mouse or trackpad once to get focus to the Login screen app if the above didn't work for you. Once in the Finder, you can use the "Open Application" item under the Manage menu to open the Server app which will bring up the "Which Server do you wish to play with" dialog. By default, it's focus is on the current server, so pressing the return key continues on to the next screen. Press return again to agree to everything since, of course, it's your own server. The next dialog asks for your Admin password, enter it and press return and the re-configuration of services will proceed on its own I just let it do its thing for a few minutes, then press cmd-q to quit the Server app, cmd-option-shift-q to log it out and then close the control screen to bring focus back to my workstation. Just for fun, I've sat next to the Server with my laptop and performed these actions to see if it was working properly, and it works as I've outlined. Using this method, you can turn VO on or off on the Server, can use ctrl-f2 to get up to the menubar, ctrl-f8 to get to menu extras and more. Of course, there's no audio feedback, so you need to have faith in your memory. Sometimes, though, I actually get out of my chair and walk to the other end of the building or wait until the next day I'm at one of the other facilities to sit in front of the Server to do what needs done. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 6, 2014, at 3:20 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > The problem comes when you need an interactive utility, such as Directory > Editor, System Preferences or, most frustrating of all, the Mac App Store. > Though you may use the softwareupdate command-line tool to fetch software > updates, you can't get Mac App Store updates, including to those of > Server.app. Quite why this is, I can't guess, but it means that I always > have a spare keyboard for when I visit the minis to do updates. I'm looking > now into running one of my Minis as an ESXi host so that I can relegate the > Mac to a purely caching-only role, which I would hate to do, more or less for > this reason. Linux is just brilliant for SSH-only access. > > The only way I can use ARD is if I restart the target machine to force the > connection to be dropped, so I can get control back. If there's a better > way, I haven't figured it out yet. > > Cheers, > Sabahattin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
