Use the following command: networksetup –createlocation 'Home' populateĪs this is a change affecting the entire OS you will need to preface these with sudo to run it as root. Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Firewire as per machine hardware) so you’ll need to use the “populate” argument. You also want to autofill it with the default services (i.e. So next step, you want to add a new location called “Home”. Now let’s do something with that information. Okay, so now you know how to check what the current network location is, and how to check what all locations are. To avoid confusion you could write your script to check for the presence of the “Automatic” location and remove it, followed by adding the two new locations. What’s the point? Well, for an example, say you set every laptop to have two locations: one “Home” with no proxies, and one “School” with lots of proxies.

Right, so you now know what the current network location is, but say you want to know what all possible network locations are? Simply use: networksetup -listlocationsĬorresponding to my System Preferences window: This corresponds with the name of my current location name of “Work”: To get the GUI name of the current network location simply use the following command for my computer, I get the following output: Although not useful in an initial ‘first run’ script (as this will almost always be ‘Automatic’) this might be handy for an extension attribute in Casper, or to have your script check and report back. The first thing you might want to do, is to check what is the current set Network location.

In today’s blog, I will be dealing with the arguments relating to Network location setup. Working with networksetupĪll over, the command in this series will use the ‘networksetup’ command In this batch I plan to go through some items which I learnt for a recent education project: modifying network locations via the command line, modifying proxy settings via the command line, and combining the two into a possible first run script that can be used at imaging time to set these items as desired. Welcome back to my (hopefully) popular Bash scripting series!

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