Open Directory Changing the Dock

[Don00]

Hi,

I am trying to change the dock icons for a user (student). The icons i add to OD Dock prefs are added to the users dock no worries, but the icons i dont want on the dock aren’t removed.

I have not selected Merge with users dock. and i am pushing a Group Folder to the dock as well. which also appears no problems. Do i have to change some default profile setting somewhere?? Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards

Don

[erd]

Don,
I usually empty the dock out (remove all app icons I don’t want from the standard dock) and then use terminal to copy the new com.apple.dock.plist file from that user to the User Template.
I think this will create an “empty” dock for any user that hasn’t already been created on the workstation.

Launch terminal
at prompt:
cp (path to empty dock plist) /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences

Test the dock appearance by creating a new account on the computer and logging in.

Hope that helps… not sure how well it will work with network users… I think it does though.

d

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