New Xserve, Setting Everyone Up

Question

Alright, so during New Years weekend, our current Xserve died. We received our new Xserve 10.6 and got it setup and currently we just created a few users, put them in a group called, "Office" and it is sharing out a folder on our Raid 5 array that everyone needs access to.
What I'm wanting to do is properly setup and configure this bad boy so that afp works flawlessly and everyone can get to the folder(s) they need to, but not into one anothers private user folder.
Before, users when they logged into their local machine, were authenticating against the server... I dont know how to move them to the new server so when they change their password on their local mac mini/imac/mbp it changes on the server etc.
Someone point me to some docs that could help explain this?

Answer 1

Hey Eileen, Seems as though you have the same legitimate problem as any other new computer purchaser. The way that I would suggest you do it is as follows:
1) When you plug in the iPod, in itunes it will give you a window, telling about the iPod being linked to another computer and would you like to change it to this computer, select no.
2) The other pop-up that will showup will be the F:\ or E:\ drive. In this window, go Tools -> Folder Options -> And Select the Radio Button that will ask you to show hidden files and folders. There will be a new folder that will show up on your drive.
3) Click once on this folder, on the side taks pane, click Copy The Selected Files. Move these files to somewhere easy to find.
4) One they are copied go into itunes, Select File, Add Folder to Library, and the new file that you added to the computer from the ipod. Select Ok, and your songs should begin to import into the itunes Library. When this is done unplug and plug back in the ipod and when it asks you this time to sync with this library, select yes, and your music will be erased from the ipod and reinstated as a new library in unison with the songs you have on your new Laptop!
Hope this was helpful.