AD and “Local Managed Preferences” (aka local mcx)

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I am managing Macintoshes using “local MCX” aka “Local Managed Preferences”.

User logons are all local and there are several of them that students may choose from depending upon the classroom/lab and particular class the student is using the Mac for. Students are allowed to store their work/project files on the local hard drive while they are enrolled in a class. We are currently using OS 10.5.8. These Macs are used by art, photography and graphics communications students and faculty.

The College wants to integrate these Macs into Active Directory so that each student can login using their own unique logon and password. Joining a Mac to AD is not a problem – QED! What I want to do after joining AD is continue to manage preferences (mcx) locally without extending the AD schema or incorporating preferences into AD. I also want to continue to allow students to store their work/project files in a common home folder on the local hard drive and suppress creation of any local home folders having the login username in it.

Does anyone know of a way to have users be authenticated via AD and then have them all use one common local home folder?

In addition, does anyone know of a way to redirect after AD login to a different common local home folder based on the AD group the user belongs to??

Thanks ….

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