As a FileWave user you may have noticed some issues with different Adobe Plugin installers.  

Shockwave

When you first download Shockwave Player and open the DMG, you are presented with a file that has a .pkg filename.

Right clicking on the .pkg and selecting “Show Package Contents” give us the all of the parts that are going to be installed. We discover that there is a compressed file inside the pkg installer (Archive.pax.gz).

Summary ( If you are using Deploy Studio in your environment read this )

 A very common practice for FileWave Administrators is including the FileWave Client on their base image.  This ensures that all of your machines will have the ability to connect to the server remotely, so that you will never have to use any method other than FileWave to deploy software to the machine.

This is a fileset that allows you to create a new user account through fileset deployment. If you would like to create new user accounts in Tiger, you can find instructions here.

1. Download the Create New User Fileset (OS X Leopard) and import it into your FileWave Server.

Many customers have asked us if there's a way to store their Server's data on a non-startup volume or on network shares ( AFP Shares for Mac or CIFS Shares for windows) . In in this posting you find  instructions for linking the Server Data Folder to another location on OS X, and Windows. You may follow these same steps for the Booster, accounting for small differences in folder names.

OS X

To migrate the FileWave server from one machine to another, use the following procedure:

Starting with FileWave 3.5, all components feature a command line utility for performing often performed FileWave actions.

The tool is called fwcontrol. You can use it to restart any of the daemons, get the version, compact the server database, or purge user status. To get the usage and help screen, simply type fwcontrol from your command prompt or Terminal.
( The output is different in version 5.0 or higher )
Here is the help screen for fwcontrol:

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If you are using FileWave 4.x or higher, you can use  SuperPrefsEditor as described in the FileWave User Manual ( it can be found in the download page ).

If you are using FileWave 4.x or higher, you can use  SuperPrefsEditor as described in the FileWave User Manual (it can be found in the download page).

If you need to change booster settings in multiple clients prefrences, here is a script that can do it.

This is a fileset that allows you to install Flash Player 10 on Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard Clients

If this fileset does not work for you, please refer to this white paper to create the fileset from scratch.

Download the Install Flash Player10 fileset

FileWave can deploy Windows security patches and service packs cleanly and efficiently, requiring no user interaction or disturbance. FileWave version 5.5 or later has the Software Update feature that can apply Windows Updates to your clients.

Security Patches (or Service Packs) can cause problems if you use FileSet WinMagic. The problem occurs when a Patch modifies registry keys outside the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software directory (this is the only part of the registry FileWave currently captures).