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Configuring Apple MACs for use in an enterprise environment

We currently own over 150 Apple computers, 20 which are MacBook Pro's and the remaining amount being iMAC’s. All of our MACs are unmanaged and require onsite assistance when issues occur. These are some of the issues we experience when using MACs in our enterprise environment; DNS resolution issues Proxy settings disappearing from the Network Settings for the Network Adapter. Constant bombardment of proxy authentication prompts once logged into the MAC for the first time using your Windows Credentials. There are two prompts for system HTTP & HTTPS and two prompts for the Safari Web Browser (HTTP & HTTPS). Safari Web Browser not set to the default home page for our company Printers have to be manually configured on the MACS Blocking of applications is too complicated for staff to manage (causes other issues with other programs) Attached network drives, home shares and memory sticks are not always visible on the users desktop All of the computers individuall

Camino not authenticating with proxy

When using Camino to access the internet via a proxy which requests authentication, the default settings do not work as you are not prompted for credentials, so internet access is denied. . To enable Camino to ask for a username and password when requesting access to the internet; navigate to about:config set network.negotiate-auth.allow-proxies to false Now you should be prompted for your credentials when accessing a secure website. Good Luck!