Somehow multiple users showed up to a Lion Party!

So I got a NEW LION SERVER.. installed fresh.
Got my cert going. Great!
Followed Lynda.com instructions.
Had some file sharing going..Great..everyone was accesing important shared files. Was super fast too!
Somehow after logging in and out...some extra people showed up to a party! About 87 users.
Can someone explain this.
I've wasted so much time configuring DNS and PROFILE MANAGER problems with the Snow Leopard server ..and went ahead and got a New LION server machines..and I still have problems.
W T F.

You are just showing system accounts in addition to user accounts. Open the server app, go to view and you can toggle the show system accounts option.

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