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Chapter 5 Setting Up Group Accounts 101
For example, to set a multimedia lab computer specifically for a movie-editing class,
you could set Dock preferences for the movie-editing workgroup to display only iMovie
and the group folder. Because the group folder is in the Dock, it provides an easily
accessible location for students to store and retrieve files.
Group folders aren’t automatically mounted on Windows workstations when group
members log in to the Windows domain. If the group folder’s share point is shared
using SMB, a Windows user can go to My Network Places (or Network Neighborhood)
and access the contents of the group folder.
Specifying No Group Folder
You can use Workgroup Manager to change a group account with a group folder to
one that has no group folder. By default, a new group has no group folder.
To specify no group folder:
1 In Workgroup Manager, click Accounts.
2 Select the group account you want to work with.
To select an account, click the globe icon, choose the directory domain where the
account resides, click the Groups button, and then select the group.
3 To authenticate, click the lock and enter the name and password of a directory domain
administrator.
4 Click the Groups button and select a group.
5 Click Group Folder; then in the list, select (None) and click Save.
Creating a Group Folder
You can create a group folder for a group in any existing share point, or you can create
the group folder in the /Groups folder (a predefined share point).
In Workgroup Manager, you can also create group folders that don’t reside immediately
below a share point. For example, you can organize group folders into several
subfolders under a share point that you define. If Groups is the share point, you can
place group folders for students in /Groups/StudentGroups and group folders for
teachers in /Groups/TeacherGroups. The full path to a group folder for second-grade
students might be /Groups/StudentGroups/SecondGrade.
Group folders are hosted on share points. For instructions about creating share points,
see “Setting Up a Share Point” on page 116.
After setting up a group folder, you can automate a group member’s access to the
group folder when the user logs in by:
 Setting up Dock preferences to make the group folder visible in the Dock.
For instructions, see “Providing Easy Access to Group Folders” on page 175.