Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 468)

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Forced preferences are copied to the appropriate location depending upon the client
operating system. The processes are explained below.
m Mac OS 9 clients: When a user logs in, Macintosh Manager compares preference folders
and files in the /Library/Classic folder of a user’s home directory to items in the Forced
Preferences folder. Macintosh Manager deletes any matching items from the user’s folder
and replaces them with preferences from the Forced Preferences folder. If any forced
preferences are missing from the user’s folder, Macintosh Manager places new copies of
these items in the user’s Preferences folder.
If there are items in the user’s Preferences folder that do not match any items in the
Forced Preferences folder, Macintosh Manager does nothing to them. If you have
concerns about these items accumulating or consuming disk space, clean out the user’s
Preferences folder occasionally.
m Mac OS 8 clients: When a user logs in, Macintosh Manager copies items from the Forced
Preferences folder to the Preferences folder in the System Folder on the client computer,
regardless of whether other copies already exist. No files or folders are copied to the
user’s Preferences folder in the home directory.
To use forced preferences:
1 Set up a workgroup data volume (Group Documents) in the Options pane of the
Workgroups pane.
2 From a client computer, access the group documents volume.
3 Create any preferences you want to place in the Forced Preferences folder.
4 Copy the preferences you created to the Forced Preferences folder on the group documents
volume.
5 Repeat steps 1 through 4 for each group documents volume.
Preserved Preferences
The Preserved Preferences folder is available only for Mac OS 8 client computers. The files
and folders that you put in the Preserved Preferences folder are never actually copied.
Instead, Macintosh Manager creates a list containing the names of all the folders and files
inside the Preserved Preferences folder. Macintosh Manager uses this list to determine which
preferences need to be copied between the server and the client computer during login and
logout. Because you can limit which preferences are copied, using the Preserved Preferences
folder can help you decrease login and logout time for Mac OS 8 clients.
When you use Preserved Preferences, this is what happens during login and logout on a
Mac OS 8 client: