
128 Chapter 8 Client Management Overview
Suppose you select Left as the Dock’s position on the screen for Workgroup A, but you
select Bottom for the Dock position for the computer list containing Computer 2, and
you select Right as the Dock position for user Alice. When Alice logs in to Computer 2
and chooses Workgroup A, the Dock will be on the right side of her screen.
Now suppose that you decide to stop managing the Dock Display settings for Alice
(you select Never in Alice’s Dock Display preferences pane). When Alice logs in to
Computer 2 and chooses Workgroup A, the Dock will be on the bottom of her screen.
In some cases, you may find it easier and more useful to set certain preferences at only
one level. For example, you could set printer preferences only for computers; set
application preferences only for workgroups; and set Dock preferences only for users. In
such a case, no overriding or combining occur, and the user inherits them without
competition.
Most of the time you’ll use workgroup-level and computer-level preferences.
• Workgroup preferences are most useful if you want to customize the work
environment (such as application visibility) for specific groups of users, or if you want
to use group folders.
For example, a student may belong to a group called “Class of 2011” for
administrative purposes and to a workgroup called “Students” to limit application
choices and provide a group shared folder for turning in homework. Another
workgroup may be “Teacher Prep,” used to provide faculty members access to folders
and applications for their use only.
• Computer-level preferences are useful when you want to manage preferences for
users regardless of their group associations. At the computer level, you might want
to limit access to System Preferences, manage Energy Saver settings, list particular
users in the login window, and prevent saving files and applications to recordable
discs.
Computer preferences also offer a way to manage preferences of users who don’t
have a network account but who can log in to a Mac OS X computer using a local
account. (The local account, defined using the Accounts pane of System Preferences,
resides on the user’s computer.) You’d set up a computer list that supports local-only
accounts. Preferences associated with the computer list and with any workgroup a
user selects during login take effect. More about managing the login experience
appears next.
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