7.4 Some suggestions for Macintosh Manager settings

Macintosh Manager controls log-ins from Mac OS 9 clients. It also allows administrators to assign system rights to MM users & MM workgroups.

Ticking "Members can open any items on local volumes" allows users to run every application that are installed on a machine's local hard drive.

Giving r/w on"Removable media (except CDs)" allows users to save to Zip disks and other removable media

Giving r/w to a "Folder on start-up disk named" "Documents" fixes a problem with some versions of Microsoft Office. This problem shows up when "Save As" fails to show a save dialog.

Storing the "Group Documents" on the same share point as user homes, cuts down on the number of SharePoints that are mounted on the user's desktop.

Also, if you have more than one server - workload is more evenly distributed since one server is not bogged down serving group files for every user on the network.

"Always try auto log-in with user's name and password first" makes sure that users connect to your server with their own name, rather than as a generic "Macintosh Manager User".

Ticking "Copy preferences when workgroup members log in" allows you to control application preferences.

Allowing users to change their own password is probably a good idea.

Copying only internet or administer-defined preferences prevents big delays at log-in and log-out if "Copy preferences" is enabled and the preference folder is very big (which it usually is).

Putting the user's email info in the internet preferences is very convenient if you are running mail apps.

Setting disk quotas is essential to prevent users from wasting disk space.

Synchronising computer clocks with the server is essential (I suspect that some server slow downs are due to date stamp problems).

Setting default email server is necessary if user email info is being put into the internet preferences.