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Yea I noticed that is the file being touched…….someone else on the lists was having the same issue and I suggested messing with that file and he said he had no luck and that the menu extra gets created no matter what. I haven’t gotten to mess with it yet. I’ll probably do that tonight when I get to work. Seems to go along the lines as the external drive message always pesting you when you plugin a new drive and AFP548 was able to get the defaults command for that and post I was hoping for the same for this nuisance….lol…..nice menu extra option for the home user, but not for network admins.

Thanks,

-Dan

[cashxx]

Ahhh…shoot

I was afraid that was the setup! It would be a pain when new accounts are made in AD….you would then need to import that new user into OD as well. We are always adding and removing accounts in AD, would be just an adding pain for the admin to have to do this each time.

Thanks for the quick replies and info! Still looking forward to reading the articles though!

-Dan

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Yea I know that much, but I’m looking for more info on how to implement it and stuff…….I figured it would be on Apple’s developer pages or something, but I can’t find anything on it. Thanks for the info though…..will look forward to the article.

Dan

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Hi,

I already know about this tip but what I am after is to have a login script run that will copy a template of a home directory to the user logging in and make a new home directory for that user if they don’t all ready have one. So basically you have a new student starting and here is what needs to take place.

1) Create new student in Active Directory with Home location
2) Setup a share with a template OS X home directory with default settings you want
3) Script to run when a user logs in that if they don’t already have a home directory to mount the share with the template and copy it to the new users Home drive to use as OS X’s Home Directory.
4) Now the new student has a Home Directory on a windows server and it acts like the OS X Home Directory with default prefs from the template so users don’t get register windows and default settings already set for applications.
5) Users having this roaming profile now they will be able to move from computer to computer and configure OS X the way they want.

Anyone have a script that will mount a share, check to see if the user logging in needs a copy of the user template and do so if needed and set permissions?

Thanks,

Dan

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