would like to have "handout" folders that she can use with ARD to pass out
documents for the kids to copy back into their home directory documents
folders.
--- An "Instructor Handouts" is something we provide for each of the
20+ instructors that use our computer-based classrooms. Very handy
for the instructors and the kids.
But you sure seem to be going about it the hard way !
I'm thinking I need to log into each machine with the 'ard
admin'create a handout folder on each, owned by 'ardadmin' and with
755
I'm also not sure how the teacher would be able to
"broadcast" files from her computer to the group shared folders.
--- All this talk of using ARD, creating folders on every client
computer, and broadcasting files makes no sense (to me). Just
create a new Share on either your Windows or Mac server called
"Handouts". Give the kids Read-only access, and give the
instructors "Read/Write".
With this setup, everybody just does plain old drag-and-drop
file-copying. Instructors create a folder for themselves in the
share, and drag up to it whatever they want. Kids can drag/copy
files from it to their homefolder, or even double-click the file to
edit a read-only version.
I'm not monkeying with group folders right now, because those
would have to go onto the G5 Tiger server, and I'm not sure how well the two
would get along, mounting a group folder from the one, and a home directory
from the other.
--- Hmmm... I don't know what kind of problems they would have
"getting along". Fileservers, be they Windows or OSX, can host
multiple different shares, with different permissions on each, and
they won't get "confused".
To make it easy in the kids, have the Handouts folder mounted on
the desktop automatically as they log in. This is easily done in
WorkGroupManager (WGM) by putting it in the User's, Group's, or
Computer's "Login Items" preference and hitting the checkbox called
"Mount item with User's name and password".
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Gary W. Zuker
Computer Specialist
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at Austin
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