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Re: Fwd: Disabling CD Burning


You could use workgroup manager to do this either locally or via a server if you are using one.

Steven Cowen


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Fwd: Disabling CD Burning





Does anyone know if this is possible?

A so far unanswered query from my MAC-SUPPORTERS LIST.

TIA


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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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