Fast User Switching - Apple Remote Desktop

[melvin]

I run the latest updates on all the machines using Apple Remote Desktop on the entire network. One problem is that one of the machines has fast user switching enabled, so there are three separate users and the annoying thing is updates have to be installed on every seperate user. Is there a way you can install the updates say in the root directory so they get installed to every user you have rather than having to do single installations for each user.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

What kind of updates? System updates, like 10.3.7, should only have to be installed once, no matter how many users there are on the machine. Also, those users should be sharing the applications in the Applications folder, so application updates should only have to be installed once.

What exactly are you trying to update? Perhaps it's a special-case update or something.

[melvin]

Yeah updates in Genreal, 10.7, Ical, Security updates etc, although I have updated one user with 10.7 when I log into another user it asks me to update it to 10.7.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Strange. I'm not exactly super-versed on using ARD to install updates, but can't you install the updates as the admin user? Are you logging into the machine remotely, then installing the updates via screen sharing, or are you "applying" the updates to the client machine from the server?

If I'm not mistaken, you can install updates to a machine remotely with ARD without actually logging into the remote machine... is this what you're doing?

[lurk]

Is it that you have three users that are running software update at the same time? That is the "Do you want to update" window is open on all three accounts at the same time and you think that you have to complete the update process in each?