Hi all, I have an OD environment here for
the Graphic Arts and Photography programs at my institution and this year, I
set up each student account to be created on a partition formatted as Mac OS
Extended (Journaled) without sync and using the local machine user template to
build the account. This cleared up several issues with Adobe as far as
permissions and working from a networked drive issues and is working well.
However I have three issues to speak of:
1. Sometimes when they log in they do not log
into their hard drive but are cached to a temp account and their preferences
are not saved or available. Can I tell Mac OS 10.6.4 to not log into a cached
temp file and wait the External drive to mount?
2. When a student takes their hard drive
home and connect to their Mac and create a folder using for example light room,
that folder is not allowing their OD account to access that folder when the get
back to class, permissions show the owner as unknown and read only for groups
and everyone. Is there a way around this simply?
3. I have three Intel Power Macs with OS
10.5 server installed (Do budget to upgrade to OS 10.6) setup with a drop
folder which “watches” for jpg files to be dropped in and in turn
will print via ImagePrint third party printing software. The problem is when I upgraded (I did not do a fresh install of
OS 10.6) of my OD master and all workstations to OS 10.6 this year, the
students are no longer able to “save as” from PhotoShop as they
were last year when everything was OS 10.5. They are able to save to their hard
drive and then drag to the drop folder via a share point but are denied access
when they attempt to save as. However, I tested with an OD account same group permissions
as the students but not setup to cache home folder on an external drive but is default
to the server, all works fine. I can save as from PhotoShop and I can drag and
drop. Hummmm.
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Joel Williford
Microcomputer Specialist
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