
20 Chapter 1 User Management Overview
When Workgroup Manager is used in conjunction with other Mac OS X Server services,
you can:
• Connect users to one another, using services such as mail, file sharing, iChat service,
and Weblog service.
• Share system resources, such as printers and computers, maximizing their availability
as users move about and making sure that disk space and printer usage remain
equitably shared.
• Customize working environments, such as desktop resources and personal files, of
network users.
Preference Management
You can use Mac OS X Server’s Workgroup Manager application to tailor the work
environments of Mac OS X clients. Preferences you define for individual users and
groups provide a consistent desktop, application, and network appearance regardless
of the Macintosh computer they use to log in. Preferences defined for computer lists
ensure a consistent user experience on computers in the list.
To learn more about client management tools and concepts, read Chapter 8, “Client
Management Overview.”
Home Directories
A home directory is a folder where a user’s files and preferences are stored. Other users
can see a user’s home directory and read files in its Public folder, but they can’t (by
default) access anything else in that directory. This is true only for other users whose
home folders reside on the same server or sharepoint.
When you create a user in a directory domain on the network, you specify the location
of the user’s home directory on the network, and the location is stored in the user
account and used by various services, including the login window and Mac OS X
Managed Client services.
The Portable Home Directories feature synchronizes a mobile user's local home folder
and network home folder automatically (or on demand). Synchronization can also be
controlled by managed preferences. For more information about mobile accounts, see
Chapter 3, “User Management for Mobile Clients.”
Mail Settings
You can create a Mac OS X Server mail service account for a user by setting up mail
settings in the user’s account. To use the mail account, the user simply configures a
mail client using the mail settings you specify.
Mail account settings let you control a user’s access to mail services running on a
particular Mac OS X Server. For mail accounts residing on servers using versions of
Mac OS X earlier than 10.3, you can also manage account characteristics such as how to
handle automatic message arrival notification.
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