Tim, THanks for sharing and this is absolutely ridiculous that you have to jump through such hoops. I know you complained, but I'm going to complain as well. After all this is probably one of the more accessible commercial server packages available. I can't speak to windows server products.
Thanks, On Jan 28, 2012, at 2:38 AM, TIM KILBURN wrote: > 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 first 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 up 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 becomes 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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