[sapridyne]

Cool. Thanks for your response.

We already have several OD structures in place (we’re a large, world-wide company) and were planning on using the golden triangle approach — so we’re using AD for authentication and OD for desktop/user/group management. In that scenario, I don’t see a need for DirectControl, at least as far as the Macs go.

Thanks,
Sapridyne

[sapridyne]

With an ACHDS and/or an ACTC, you should be able to join the Apple Certification Alliance, which will give you access to Apple Sales Web, which will give you access to the official training materials.

OR, you can wait until the Peachpit book on Server Administration is released next month, which is supposed to cover all of the ACSA topics…

[sapridyne]

I don’t think I am going to need synchronized home folders… each person has their own Mac they work on and they keep their files local, saving to the server every so often, but they don’t work directly off the server…

…Hope that is the information you’re looking for 😀

Sapridyne

[sapridyne]

Yeah, I was thinking that 30 seconds wasn’t normal, but I didn’t know where it was hanging… the home folder is a definite possibility.

I’m sort of wanting home folders to act the way they do in Windows 2000/XP… have a folder that everything is stored in (in the Macs case, preferences, documents, desktop items, etc.). When they log out and back in, they can get back to their stuff. If a new person logs in, a new folder is created.

I found the article on Fat of the Lan and used LoginWindow Manager to run a script, but that messed my directory up where I couldn’t even login to the GUI (I could log into Darwin, oddly enough). So a script, yes… but I know next to nothing about shell scripting. I don’t figure what I’m trying to do is so bizarre that no one out that is doing this — can someone maybe pass on their script and any other tips for me?

THANKS!

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