I'm setting up an iMac on an all windows network with Active Directory on Windows 2003 Standard. I've gotten the system to authenticate against the AD and allow network users to login and it automatically mounts their home directories (question about that later), but I'd like to know how I can set the default settings for the network users (disabling access to sysprefs, setting default printers, home page, etc...) when they log in. Is there some way I can do this? I'm open to third party apps as long as it's not prohibitively expensive.
About the user's home folders, when our domain controller was setup the users folders were located on \\server\users$\usershomefolder using the administrative share (the dollar sign after the users folder). All of the users are set up this way and when OS X mounts the user folder it mounts USERS$ on the desktop and the user's home folder in the dock. Is there any way that I can get it to automatically put the home folder on the desktop also? Or maybe switch the OS X home directory to the network home directory instead?
I'd also like to auto-mount certain network folders that will have to be accessed by users, such as \\server\sharedfolder\, onto the desktop.
Thanks in advance.
About the user's home folders, when our domain controller was setup the users folders were located on \\server\users$\usershomefolder using the administrative share (the dollar sign after the users folder). All of the users are set up this way and when OS X mounts the user folder it mounts USERS$ on the desktop and the user's home folder in the dock. Is there any way that I can get it to automatically put the home folder on the desktop also? Or maybe switch the OS X home directory to the network home directory instead?
I'd also like to auto-mount certain network folders that will have to be accessed by users, such as \\server\sharedfolder\, onto the desktop.
Thanks in advance.