Hi Yuma/Scott, > > 1. For adding Users to Groups in WGM, it works in either direction. That > is, adding the users to the Group or adding Group membership to the specific > user. In each situation, use the SL drag and drop method and things work > properly, I haven't had much success with the Lion method in WGM. > > I usually do it from the Group prospective when adding users to a Group as I > find it easier to manage. Here's my best recollection as I'm out of town > right now and doing this from memory. > > • Select the Groups tab. > • Select the Members tab. > • Interact with the Groups table and select the Group you wish to add members > to. > • check the Add button. > > This should open the Users Drawer for you.. The Users Drawer appears way up > by the Toolbar so I usually just press VO-home to get me quickly to the > Toolbar then VO-right to the Drawer. > > • Interact with the Drawer. > • Interact with the Table and navigate to the user you wish to add. > • Turn off cursor tracking and mouse down on the user to pick it up. > • Stop Interacting with the Table, as well as the Drawer and navigate to the > membership Table. > • Interact with it then mouse up to drop the User there. > > If you have multiple users to do this to, just use whatever multiple > selection method works in your situation, contiguous or non-contiguous > selecting. > > 2. For accessing the User or Group Preferences in WGM, I first had to figure > out the following placement of the various Preference items. I put this list > into a TextEdit file in case I forget. They are set up in rows of three in > this manner: > > Applications - Classic - Dock > Finder - Login - Media Access > Mobility - Network - Parental > Printing - Software Updates - System Preferences > Universal Access > > Each item brings up an accessible pane for setting User/Group/Computer > preferences. The problem is that these are not visible to VO at all, nor can > you use HotSpots to locate them. So I've just used mouse keys instead. > There may be another way but I got so used to using mouse keys that I'm stuck > with it so far. Here's what I do. > > • Select Preferences in the toolbar. > • Select the Users, Groups or Machines tab depending on what I wish to > control. > • Select the User or Group from the Table. > • Stop Interacting with the Table and VO-left where it says something about > "Select one or more Accounts...". > • I then press VO-cmd-f5 to make sure my mouse is where the VO-cursor just > read. > • Press the Option key five times to turn mouse keys on. (You set this up in > the Universal Access pane of System Prefs). >!"�¢ Press the "2" key on the number pad 60 times to go down to the fi²st row, >125 for the second, 190 for the third and 250 for the fourth. > > This will land you on the middle item of the row of three and, yes, I lose > count sometimes and have to start over. That's probably why I've complained > to Apple about it to no avail. You don't have to be exact but if you go too > far down, you'll end yp in the next row and have to start over anyway. > > • If you want the first item, like Applications, move left 140 times with the > "4" key on the numPad or if you wish the right most item in the row, use the > "6" key 140 times to land on it. > > • When you suspect that you're on the correct item, just press the "5" key > for the mouse press. > > Voila, all the inaccessible stuff now b¥comes accessible. You can set which > apps are allowed, which printers are available, what's on the users Dock, how > they access Software Updates, restrict the Internet and lots of other things. > You can always have control, sometimes (which means set it up the first time > then let them do whatever afterwards), or never control that preference. If > you really want to dig deep, you can play with MCX Preference Manifests in > the Details tab of WGM. This sort of detail allows you to specifically > control the state of specific preference items like homepage in Safari, > whether Word Auto-Saves and much more. > > Hope this is clear. If I've messed up at all, let me know and I'll look at > WGM when I get home after this weekend and fix the steps I may have missed. > Otherwise, have fun but be careful, you do have the power to mess things up. > > Later..
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Yuma Decaux <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > You previously mentioned a method to access user preferences in Workgroup > manager, which would probably be helpful to SCott's home server endeavor. > > Can you give us a short how-to? I can't remember the one that was suggested > for adding users to groups etc as i now use the iphone app. > > Best regards, > > Yuma > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
