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Mac Systems Management
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."
iThey're ifree-spirited isystems ifor ifree-spirited ipeople, iremember?
The Schwartz space ain't from Spaceballs.
This is for all the bros left behind in the windows ghetto.
You aint gonna get in the sack
till you go out an get a mac
so stop staring at that girls rack
she usd be call jack
so mr virgin who wants sex
makes ugly windows his ex
leaves behind his pokedex
and lets his muscles flex
loads the 3 gran OS by apple
takes 5 mins to fin' out it crapple
so boring computing I want a napple
aint no ass j00 gonna tapple
See whats happening muthafucking pricks
is that you need to use LINUX
Get that proprietary ick of yo dicks
and settle of the GPL Mix.
Thas fo shore tha truth.
In their obsession with keeping things simple Apple has IMO cut a few too many corners in the area of disk sharing. If you want to share a folder for use on a Windows computer, you can only share all home directories, or nothing. If I switch on Personal File Sharing suddenly all my applications and all data of all users is available for everyone to see. And a few days ago I discovered that even while I had everything but remote logon (which basically means sshd) and Windows Sharing (which uses a modified smb.conf so I only share the directories I want) switched on in the Preferences, I could still access my whole harddisk remotely from my Linux PC. Luckily I did need a password for that, but still... Shame on you Apple! And that's not all. On the samba implementation on OSX, password handling is so broken it's unusable. The command smbpasswd runs but it doesn't do anything. Any password you type seems to be totally ignored. So I have to share my directories with no password. Shame on you again Apple! Shame shame shame. Even Windows does better in this area. I hope they will fix all that in Leopard.
-- Cheers!
MS's Active Directory did this years ago... and better.
And AD is simply a big way of extending MS's Group Policy... which did this years ago... and better.
Once again, Microsoft's tail lights fail to get any closer.