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198 Chapter 10 Managing Preferences
The application remains open but its windows and menu bar remain hidden until the
user activates the application (for example, by clicking its icon in the Dock).
8 To automatically connect the user to a server, select the server and then select “Mount
share point with user’s name and password.”
The server must use the same directory domain as the one the user logs in to.
9 If you don’t want users to have the ability to add and remove items, deselect “User may
add and remove additional items.”
This option is available only if Login Items preferences are always managed. If you only
manage Login Items preferences Once, a user can remove any items added to the login
list.
Users can’t remove items added to the login items list but they can remove items
they’ve added themselves.
10 To prevent users from stopping applications that open automatically at login, deselect
“User may press Shift to keep items from opening.”
This option is available only if Login Items preferences are always managed.
11 If you select Once, you can click “Merge with user’s items.”
This produces two results, depending on whether the user has items in their login list.
If the user has items listed in their login list, either by the user adding them or by
having items previously added through preference management, merging only opens
login items that appear on the user’s list and on your list.
If the user’s login list does not include items, all managed login items appear.
If you do not select “Merge with user’s items,” all login items on either list open.
12 Click Apply Now.
Providing Access to a User’s Network Home Folder
This setting is used primarily for mobile accounts on computers using Mac OS X v10.3
through Mac OS X v10.3.9. When a user logs in while connected to the network, the
share point with the user’s original home folder (on the server) is mounted on the
desktop.
Don’t provide access to a user’s network home folder to users with mobile accounts on
Mac OS X v10.4 or later. Mac OS X v10.4 and later include portable home directories,
which provide a synced subset of the user’s local and network home folders.
If a user modifies files in the local and network home folders, when the two home
folders sync, the newer modifications take precedence, which could surprise and
confuse the user. Additionally, users could be confused by having multiple folders titled
with their user names and similarly named folders like Documents, Music, and others.