Hardware manual

Chapter 1 Mac OS X Server in Action 23

Teachers need file services support so they can make lesson plans and teaching

materials available to students online. Teachers also need a way to retrieve and update

student records and other administrative information that’s centralized on a remote

server.

Â Mac OS X Server’s client management service provides a way to control student

Macintosh computer work environments.

Many preferences, such as Dock and Finder preferences, are used to customize the

appearance of student desktops. For example, you can set up Dock preferences and

Finder preferences so that the work environment of lower-grade students is

dramatically simplified.

Other preferences are used to manage what a student can access and control. For

example, you can set up Media Access preferences to prevent students from burning

CDs and DVDs or making changes to a computer’s internal disk. Also, you can control

which students can access the Internet.

Home directories,

Open Directory,

client management,

software update, and

system imaging services

District o

ice

Classroom or lab

Web, print

and file services