RE: Network users and the default User Template

It should be in the same location on the server….system/library/user template/English.lproj, but I am not 100% that is the template used for this.

-Mike

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From: system-imaging-bounces+perbix=email@hidden [mailto:system-imaging-bounces+perbix=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Joe Jenkins
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 10:10 AM
To: Stuart Ramdeen
Cc: <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Network users and the default User Template

Hi Stuart,

Someone on Apple's discussion forum suggested I post this question here, I am not sure why. Anyway, they authentication to a Netware LDAP server and the home directories are hosts on an AFP volume on the same server. We don't use an Xserve for this. If the template could live on the server, I could do that, I just don't know where to put it on that AFP volume.

Thanks for taking the time to reply :)

Joe Jenkins

>>> Stuart Ramdeen <email@hidden> 12/23/2009 12:35 AM >>>

You might get more responses if posted to the client management or osxserver list.

When you say the users authenticate via ldap, do you mean that the users are network home users hosted on a mac os x server? If so, were you sure to edit the user template on the server rather than the client(s)?

Regards

Stuart

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On 22 Dec 2009, at 22:50, "Joe Jenkins" <email@hidden> wrote:

Hello all,

We have several Macs that authenticate via LDAP and have their home directory on the network. I would like to be able to have a default template for any user logging into the Macs for the first time that creates certain folders and files in their home directory. I have looked at using the User Template functionality in Mac OS X for this, but for some reason when a user is logging into a network account, it seems to ignore the default User Template I created.

I followed the directions here: http://www.makemacwork.com/customize-the-user-template.htm

and did a fix disk permissions afterwords.

When a new network user logs into the Mac, none of the things I have set up in my new default template get brought over.

Any ideas? Thank you!

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