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Mac Systems Management

Posted by kdawson on from the tools-of-the-trade dept.

johannacw writes "This story has in-depth info about managing Macs using Apple's Managed Preferences architecture. It covers how to use the 14 built-in systems-management areas, how preferences interact, how to secure workstations, and how to help users access resources including applications and printers. It's a must-read for any systems admin working in a Mac or mixed environment. Written by Ryan Faas, this is a follow-up to his popular Inside Apple's Workgroup Manager."

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  1. A basic article about a 2-year-old OS is news? by Logic+Bomb · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why is this on Slashdot? I guess it might be of some interest to people who don't manage OS X professionally. But this is a fairly basic overview of features from an OS released over 2 years ago! I cannot imagine why anyone would spend time writing this now. It's not like the information isn't already out there... like in the product documentation. Seriously, why is this on Slashdot? Did the editor think it was about 10.5 or something?

  2. system administration by ianare · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But where are the ready-made commands to paste into terminal? The neat perl scripts? I thought the whole point of Mac was that you could use the UNIX underneath for administration? I mean if the extent of possibilities is "click here, then click here" you might as well run server 2003.

  3. Re:You can hardly manage the Mac from there by SideshowBob · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Um, no. What are you even talking about? When you connect to that computer you have to authenticate with a username and password. You will only be able to access data remotely that you could access if you were logged in as that user locally.

    And I don't get what your second problem is. If you had personal file sharing turned on, then your Linux box must've been connecting to your Mac via afp.

    I think you're just very confused.

  4. from the command-line by mzs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or if you want to do it from the command line there is a perl script here to do it:

        http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20011 119095823908