• Windows 7 User Icon Location

I need to place 3 desktop icons that link to 3 websites on 22 mini macs in our only mac lab in the 5th and 6th grade building for our school district. I've googled around a little bit and it doesn't seem like the answers I've found are quite right for my problem. I know that I can have them log on and create desktop icons for themselves, but I think if I tell the teachers that they need to have their students log on, google the page, then create a desktop icon half of them will throw their hands in the air and just never use the lab, and the other half will just not do it and keep complaining until I find a better solution.

Plus, keeping students at one computer for the rest of the year is pretty much impossible. If they were windows machines I would either place the icon in all users/desktop or use group policy to push out the icons. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent for macs. Has anyone out there discovered a clever solution to this problem? I think there are a few ways of accomplishing this. There is actually an equivalent of proper management for Macs:) but the important question is whether you have your macs bound to an os x server OD.

If you do, look at workgroup manager's preferences tab - Dock (allows you to specify required dock icons) or Login, which will let you create login scripts that can be made to copy whatever to user desktop from a network share, there is also the 'Mobility' way of doing things, which equates to windows Roaming Profiles - if you go that route, you can dump files to user's desktops right on the server and the minis will pick it up on next login/sync. I think there are a few ways of accomplishing this.

There is actually an equivalent of proper management for Macs:) but the important question is whether you have your macs bound to an os x server OD. If you do, look at workgroup manager's preferences tab - Dock (allows you to specify required dock icons) or Login, which will let you create login scripts that can be made to copy whatever to user desktop from a network share, there is also the 'Mobility' way of doing things, which equates to windows Roaming Profiles - if you go that route, you can dump files to user's desktops right on the server and the minis will pick it up on next login/sync. The shortcuts are pointing at a website, not at an application. Right now on the PC side of things we have shortcuts with specialized icons on the desktop to make things a little easier to see. (Kermit is the icon for our reading website etc.) but the Kermit icon itself isn't in any way attached to the website on the outside, it is just a local setting inside properties of the shortcut. I would like to make kermit show up in the dock for the reading website, but I don't see any option like that in the workgroup manager.

Here's an old article I've used for years When a new user is created using System Preferences, pane Accounts, that user has a default directory structure and set of files. This is not hard-coded, but is created by copying the directory structure from: /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/ (or appropriate localisation).

If you want to change this, for example add a default set of files, simply change the above directory and it will be reflected in all newly created users. Create a default setup for new users. Create a new user and logon. Arrange the home directory as you wish. In particular, run various applications to set up their preferences. Log off and back on to an administrator account. Copy the newly created user's home directory to the default template.

Windows 7 User Icon Location

First, save the old one: sudo mv /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj.old Then copy the new one: sudo cp -R /Users/new-user-short-name /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj You can use OD if you have it set up, but this is closest to changing the Windows/All Users profile.