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34 Chapter 2 Inside Mac OS X Server
 A group folder is a place for group members to exchange ideas and receive
information that’s relevant to the group. By default, group folders contain three
folders: Documents, Library, and Public, and there’s a Drop Box folder in the Public
folder. If needed, you can customize these folders and automatically mount them on
the desktop of group members at login.
Computer Lists
Computer lists let you manage collections of computers.
For example, you can use a computer list to reserve high-capacity computers for
film students. You’d set up a computer list consisting of the high-capacity computers,
assign film students to a group, and give access to the computer list to only that group.
A student who isn’t a film student can’t log in to one of those computers.
Home Directories
A home directory is a folder where a user’s files and preferences are stored. Other users
can see a user’s home directory and read files in its Public folder, but they can’t (by
default) access anything else in that directory.
Mac OS X Server can host home directories for Macintosh, UNIX, and Windows users.
With a home directory, these users can access their applications, documents, and
individual settings regardless of the computer to which they log in.
You can impose disk quotas on home directories to regulate server disk usage for users
with home directories.
Macintosh User Management
Mac OS X Server offers work environment personalization for Mac OS X computer
users to:
 Manage preferences and set up mobile accounts and managed network views,
features summarized next.
 Automate operating system images used by Macintosh client computers, as “System
Imaging Services” on page 36 describes.
Preference Management
You can use Mac OS X Server to manage the work environments of Mac OS X users by
defining preferences. Preferences are settings that customize and control a user’s
computer experience.
 Preferences can be used to change the appearance of a user’s desktop. For example,
you dramatically simplify the appearance of the Dock and the Finder for lower-grade
students.