A so far unanswered query from my MAC-SUPPORTERS LIST.
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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:23:46 +0000
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Hi everyone,
Anyone out there using macs as workstations/clients in a Linux/Unix
network environment?
We have just bought 4 mac-minis and I am trying to configure them to
work in a 'Linux-like' way - like the rest of our regular Linux PCs.
The servers are all Solaris, I believe - so no MacOS X Server!
I have set up the macs so that people can log into them with their
regular network passwords (via an LDAP lookup to the Solaris
server), and it also NFS mounts their home directories (again, held
on a Solaris server).
The only remaning niggle is that we want to disable CD burning! We
don't want people to be using the Macs to download and burn movies
and whatnot. In Linux this can be done trivially be altering the
/etc/fstab and setting the CDRW line to ro rather than rw. On the
macs, this does not seem to be possible (while /etc/fstab exists,
MacOS X does not refer to it...)
Does anyone know how we can do this? Either by configuring each
machine locally to disable burning, or to get it to do some kind of
LDAP lookup so that the server tells the machine to disallow burning
for all users. The first it probably easier - if it can be done. The
second requires knowing what LDAP schema MacOS is using, and what
the Macs need LDAP to tell it to switch off burning.
Anyone done anything like this, or know how it can be done, or have
any other wonderful ideas? :)
Many thanks!
Richard Grant
Senior Computer Officer
Department of Maths & Computer Science
University of Leicester
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