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>Subject: RE: #8027 OSX server lab admin settings
>Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:58:13 +0000

Edith,

Here at BU's CELOP, we just upgraded our labs from OS 9 with Mac Manager to 
OS X with the MCX Managed Client setup that you're implementing.

The reason that your French users can manipulate the same items on their 
desktop is that "French" is one logical user, with one home folder located 
on your server.  By sharing this account, everybody logged in as "French" is 
accessing the same desktop folder, documents folder, preferences folder 
(Library), etc.  I think that what might solve this problem would be to 
create individual user accounts.  We do this by using a tool called 
"Passenger" that lets you import a tab/comma delimited list of student 
names.  You could also achieve this by authenticating against your 
University's LDAP server, but you may lose some flexibility that way.

We tried using a generic "Open Lab" login for students who are using our lab 
to check e-mail or whatever between classes and found that preference 
conflicts and other problems made this sort of generic login very difficult 
to manage.

We're still working some kinks out of our own system, but feel free to 
contact me off-list for more help.

Jonathan White
Boston University
Center for English Language and Orientation Programs

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>Subject: #8027 OSX server lab admin settings
>Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:19:41 EDT
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>--- Forwarded Message from "Edith Paillat" <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> >Subject: OSX server lab admin settings
> >Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:56:52 +1300
> >Thread-Topic: OSX server lab admin settings
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> >From: "Edith Paillat" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
>
>  Dear everyone,
>I am looking for someone who has experience with setting up a lab with
>multiple user with multiple log-on under OSX server 10.3.
>Background :
>We have recently implemented a self-access lab with brand new emacs and
>OS 10.3 (to allow classic to run for older software). We tyring to set
>up OSX Server to authenticate our multiple users with multiple logons
>but we have had some issues with  settings and privileges given by the
>server upon logon and despite back up (every night).
>For example if a user (french) saved a document on the desktop of one
>workstation, it would instantly appear on another station logged under
>French. The document would stay there until someone logged under French
>deletes it. We have ahd problems with applications on the dock, then we
>lost the classic function little by little.
>
>Currently our workstations are stand alone and users log on following
>the language they study. This is far from being practical for we have
>other security and privilege issues (like moving/deleting icons within
>users respective folders for e.g.)
>
>Please let me know you're your OSX server is set up to allow multiple
>user authentication and privileges restrictions...
>Thanks for you help!
>
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>Edith Paillat
>Language Technology Specialist
>Language Learning Centre
>Victoria University of Wellington
>P.O.Box 600, Wellington
>New Zealand
>+64 4 463 5792
>http://www.vuw.ac.nz/llc/about/projects.aspx
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