Selective users in login window

Hi all,
When managing a computer login window using the Workgroup manager, I can setup each computer either to show or not to show all users names and pictures.
Is there a way to selectively show some users and leave the other... option to the rest?
Thanks,
Ziv

Hi
You can do this with an MCX applied at hardware level. Once you've joined your workstations to OD launch WorkGroup Manager and create a Computer Group(s). Click on the Members tab and use the diaresis (. . .) button to 'add' those joined workstations. Click on the Preferences icon, click on Login, select Window, click Always and the rest if fairly obvious from there.
Not absolutely necessary but it's a good idea to restart the client workstations afterwards as sometimes hardware MCX does not 'take' immediately. You'll know soon enough.
Tony

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