Well actually this is some serious stuff. I go to college at Northwestern Michigan College. We have a couple of labs over here that have Macs. One of them is about to be upgraded to a new edition of $999 imacs. Campus IT is pushing big to end Macintoshes all together on campus. They use some "incompatibilities with NT/Novell environment" as an argument to cut Macs at their knees. Here is the best of what I can make of a problem description.
1. Every single student has their own Q
Drive that shows up on any pc on campus where they keep their files. We are using Novell Netware. I can tell that by the novell login and scripts running. That Q
Drive is something that Macs on campus never had. I don't know what operating system the server runs,but I guess it is Novell(or NT). Communications department wants it, but IT says "there no frikin way it will be possible".Is there anyway to put something in each student profile on a single Mac OS X system to map their q dirve from that server.
2. We have to manually create an account for Macs. All pcs are automated. The only thing we get is a roster of students that are registered for classes in Communications. We make those accounts from that roster.Is there any way to write a script that would automatically create accounts using certain profile? I guess the suggested sytem will be Mac OS X running a server.
I am sorry for using such poor descriptions, but currently I am deprived of access to the necessary information because I am a volunteer. I don't have a mac os x/os x server system to play with and figure out some stuff like profiles, scripts and etc.I will appreciat any help. If you need more info you can post here or mail directly to podkuid@elmo.nmc.edu.
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