Possible to use Machine (not User? Account?

Hi there -
We have an Xsan based video production facility with three workstations. We would like to have users log on to a machine and have iChat launch into an account specific to that machine.
Because we use Open Directory and host our users home directories on the server, iChat tries to log onto whatever account the user last selected.
I'm hoping that we can isolate the files that contain the iChat prefs, create a template for each machine and then push that as a log on item per machine. Is this possible?
We last attacked this problem some months ago and we not able to locate where iChat was storing the account information. In addition, we were not able to Automate this workflow or create a functional script to acheive this.
All help is apreciated!
Ed McNichol

Hi
The Xsan forum http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=810
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Jaap74 wrote:
Two things that are not clear
- I think it is not possible to have iTunes running at the same time on two Macs in the discribed setting.
- I think over a wireless connection, it will reduce speed.
Anyone with experience?
I think what you mean is that it's not possible for two Macs to access the same iTunes library (ie. the same collection of media files) at the same time. From my research, this seems to be the case, and that's not my issue.
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Is it possible to do machine and user authentication in same Authorization profile?

Hi,
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IF ( wired_802.1x and AD:externalgroup EQUAL dommain computer AND AD:exteranalgroup EQUAL Some_domain_user_group )
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_system/5.1/user/guide/users_id_stores.html#wp1235978
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