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What would you do with 8 iMacs in a college lab?
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Jan 20, 2003, 07:06 AM
 
Situation: 8 iMacs in the college design lab. They're networked and on the internet, but they don't connect to the college's main (Novell Netware) network. The PC guys in systems like it that way.

They all run OS9, but they have copies of OS X.1 available.

At the moment, they run the OS9 interface with panels. Some guy's coming in to set one of them up as a print server, apparently, but still in OS9. They're not getting file sharing stuff because it's too hard to do securely, or so they say

Without spending any extra money (i.e. no purchasing OSX Server), would there be an easy solution using OSX to give them all file and print sharing, using one iMac as a server? In other words, give each pupil a username that they can use to log onto any Mac and access stuff?

Amorya
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