Help Required on Creating and Maintaining an Apple Network Without a Server
Hi,
I'm an external IT technician for a new educational block at a hospital who intend on using apple mac computers alongside windows computers running off of a windows server..
I usually deal with windows XP as an operating system so OSX is relatively new to me..
Basically what I have is a suite of 6 iMacs which are all sharing files from the windows server via a network share drive I set up. I've just got off the phone with the project manager and she wishes to have individual logons for each member of staff and student here, this adds up to around 25 people..
I have allready created a generic "teacher" and "student" logon which has all of the right things in the dock + settings etc that I need. Is there an easy way to duplicate those settings to create new profiles?
I'm just trying to look for ways of making this easier for myself and for the school in the future.. I have a feeling that the ideal solution would be to have an apple server installed and manage the users from there but I don't think that it was considered at the time of purchase..
So can anyone help me out? I'll be grateful for any tips or advice on creating and maintaining this system as I'm due to support this place for the next year.
Thanks alot,
Martin
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