Chapter 9. Managing Accounts

Time Goals

This chapter takes approximately four hours to complete.

Create and configure home folders for network user accounts

Create and manage access to shared group folders

Manage user, workgroup, and computer preferences

View and edit an application’s preferences

Configure a local software update server

Create mobile accounts and configure Mac OS X Server for mobile home folders

If you run an organization with several hundred users, how can you make sure they all have the same items in their Dock? Their printers? Their Finder interface? In previous chapters you learned management techniques involving the user name, password, and home folder. There are many other aspects to user account management, and it is ...

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