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6 In Disc Media or Other Media, select “Eject all removable media at logout.”
7 Click Apply Now.
Managing Mobility Preferences
You can automatically create mobile accounts for users during their next login.
If your computers have Mac OS X v10.5 or later, you can also encrypt the contents of
the mobile account’s portable home directory, restrict its size, choose its location, or set
an expiration date on the account.
The table below describes what you can do with the settings in each Mobility pane.
For planning information and other considerations for mobile accounts, see Chapter 8,
“Managing Portable Computers.”
Creating a Mobile Account
You can use Workgroup Manager to create a mobile account when a user logs in. If you
don’t enable the creation of mobile accounts, the user logs in using a network account.
When you enable mobile accounts, a local home folder is created for the user at first
login.
When the user’s local home folder is created, it’s based on a template stored on the
local computer. The user’s network home folder is based on a template stored on the
server hosting home folders.
When you modify these templates, you change the user’s default home folder structure
and content, and you can modify the ~/Library folder, allowing you to set default
bookmarks and application preferences.
You can choose whether local and network home folders initially sync, in which case
the network home folder replaces the local home folder.
You must authenticate as root to change the template stored in
/System/Library/User Template/language.lproj. Replace language with the language
used on the client computer, such as “English.”
Mobility preference pane What you can control
Account Creation Whether to create mobile accounts when users log in and whether
to encrypt contents of the portable home directory, restrict its size,
or choose a different location for it
Account Expiry Whether to delete mobile accounts and how soon to do so after
the user’s next login
Rules The folders you want to sync at login and logout (or in the
background) and how frequently to sync folders in the background