A couple of Newbie struggles.

Before I start,

Im a bit of a tinkerer so please bear with me. I have a setup where I have installed OSX server in my study and I have a couple of macs around the house. I have had no sleep the last week trawling the internet for what I thought would be straight forward so here goes.

1) On my server machine (imac in Study) can I get the login window prefs to work so I can list all accounts rather than have the generic text Username password????. I cant get access to the prefs through the preference pain. also, I cant get the server prefs to work when I use workgroup manager either(yes im bound)

2) I have set up open directory and a couple of user accounts (and they all work), can I get the login window to show the accounts on both the server (see I need to fix 1 though) and on the clients? can I get the list of accounts with pici’s rather than the generic “Other” icon.

3) Should I give up, crawl into my box and just go with distributed accounts with a few shared folders.

Any advice would be really appreciated, im at my wits end!!!

thanks

mattp