Using Mac OS X Lion Server

Using Workgroup Manager

Workgroup Manager also provides more granular control over accounts and lets administrators configure managed preferences, which are policies that limit what various users can do on a system. When using Workgroup manager, user creation can still be performed from within the Server app. Here, we’re going to look at editing a user and simply adding a network home directory, then configuring that home directory as a portable home directory used to synchronize data in a user’s home folder to the server at login and logout.

Once the Server Admin tools have been installed and users have been created, open Workgroup Manager and click on a user (this process works on groups as well). Click on the user’s Home tab in the right half of the screen to see a list of home directory paths. Other than the entry for /Users, these are added by checking the “Make available for home directories” box from within each share’s settings, described further in Chapter 3. Click on a network share point for a user and then click on the Save button, as can be seen in Figure 2-21. Next, click on the Create Home Now button, which populates the directory selected with the username, and within that directory, populates a standard user profile from the default user template.

Figure 2-21. Network homes

Next, configure the policy for the user to make the home directory synchronize ...