Apple Remote Desktop and AUTOMATOR

Apple Remote Desktop Movies from Apple:

http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/tutorials/easysetup.html

Main AUTOMATOR SITE:

http://www.macosxautomation.com/automator/

ARD Action Pack V. 3.0:

http://www.macosxautomation.com/automator/examples/ard/actionpack.html

Get TEACHER HELPER SCRIPTS:

http://www.macosxautomation.com/automator/examples/ard/teach/index.html

MacBreak Dev main feed:

feed://www.pixelcorps.tv/rss/macbreak_dev

or in Itunes podcast section under MacBreak Dev

http://www.pixelcorps.tv/macbreak_dev

Episodes 12 and 13 deal with Automator and Apple Remote Desktop(ARD)

Apple Seminar on ARD and Automator:

http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/automator/apple/index1.html

http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/tutorials/automation.html

SEND this UNIX Command to log in to machines. Just change the username and password.

Please note don't do this on a projector setup or the audience will see your passwords.

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke "username"'; \

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke tab'; \

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delay 0.5'; \

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke "password"'; \

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delay 0.5'; \

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke return'