Hi
I will soon be working on my ideal Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 image for a 30 odd station school lab. The server is also Tiger unlimited client 10.4.11. The demographics of my school is such that the temptation is not to hack but to constantly play with any other app or go to any other web site other than the one they should be in. I think I have decided to control the web access by creating a proxy server on the server I control. Any ip not on my allowed list will be blocked. I have a lot of good appz, however, that I will want to use and want to include in my ideal image but I need a way to hide/ show them on a fast differentiated basis as students finish their regular work. In other words, student A finishes writing their paragraph in Word and I then want to flip A into a Multimedia app(some of which will have to run in classic) but keep students B, C, etc. still working in Word as their only option. I will roll out the deployment using ccc plus this pages 's input.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050623094230186 I am going to use this as my setup guide. Mac OS X Server Deploying Mac OS X Computers for K12 Education
So do you think netboot is the way to go to manage this difficulty. Using a wired netboot environment, can I quickly change settings manually( in seconds, which is all I may have to keep a fight from breaking out) to change an individual user's permissions to access a different app or cluster of appz? Or are there, easy scripts I can direct to standalone images to quickly enable/disable application access or hide/reveal access? (By the way I do own ARD 1) but I don't see that helping. I can't afford ARD 3 right now either.
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