Hi all, first post, so hi 
I have recently reinstalled the College Mac suite where I work as an IT Tech (and Mac noob).
Over the last term the desktops on the macs were used as a dumping ground for student work and as such proved difficult to back up the work at the end of term.
A sollution seemed to me to be to create a desktop alias to Documents and set that as the only area on the desktop that the Student (managed) user had read/write access and set the rest of the desktop to Read-only.
Other than problems opening attachments from Hotmail (one for another day..), this has worked out quite well. Until yesterday...
When the user inserts a blank CD the system promts to choose an app, when Finder is selected the screen refreshes but the blank CD does not appear on the screen.
This does not happen for USB keys or CDs with data on.
I have played aroud with setting the desktop to Read/Write and the blank disk appeared.
At the moment it seems my only two options are to change the desktop to R/W or to create a new user with sufficient access to write a CD/DVD and Student Docs but lock down everything else. I'd rather not do either.
I hope this makes sence as I know I tend to ramble, and would really appreciate any assistance!
Cheers.
I have recently reinstalled the College Mac suite where I work as an IT Tech (and Mac noob).
Over the last term the desktops on the macs were used as a dumping ground for student work and as such proved difficult to back up the work at the end of term.
A sollution seemed to me to be to create a desktop alias to Documents and set that as the only area on the desktop that the Student (managed) user had read/write access and set the rest of the desktop to Read-only.
Other than problems opening attachments from Hotmail (one for another day..), this has worked out quite well. Until yesterday...
When the user inserts a blank CD the system promts to choose an app, when Finder is selected the screen refreshes but the blank CD does not appear on the screen.
This does not happen for USB keys or CDs with data on.
I have played aroud with setting the desktop to Read/Write and the blank disk appeared.
At the moment it seems my only two options are to change the desktop to R/W or to create a new user with sufficient access to write a CD/DVD and Student Docs but lock down everything else. I'd rather not do either.
I hope this makes sence as I know I tend to ramble, and would really appreciate any assistance!
Cheers.