Hi, we are having an issue with network users being able to drag full applications and copy them to their desktop. They were not able to do this with 10.4 but almost all of our client machines are 10.5 now. At first, we thought it was just making an alias on their desktop which is fine. But, it is actually a full copy of the app. So, for example a lot of students are going into the hard drive and just dragging Word to the desktop. Now, that app is taking up space on their desktop in their home folder on the server. We don't want them to be able to do that. Is this a WGM issue? Or is it an imaging issue?

Hi Larry, welcome to the forums.

Without knowing more about how you set up permissions it's hard to say. I take it this is OS X server? WGM = Workgroup Manager? Are the applications resident to their machines or does everyone work off the same server.

I assume you are doing Net Boot? I just checked a couple of machines on regular 10.4 and was able to copy an application over to the desktop from another machine.

If they are students it seems they must first be taught how to use a computer, and not to do that. For example dragging Word out of its folder will not enable a lot of functions of the application, many menu items will be missing for example, since some parts aren't in the same folder as the application anymore. Creative suite is the same. Teach them to make aliases.

With a few more details maybe we can figure something out.

Jim

Hi Jim,

Yes it's an OS X open directory server. When we were using Tiger server with Tiger machines whenever a student dragged the app over it wouldn't say you can't move files from the HD, or something along those lines. Now with a Leopard server w/ Leopard computers kids can just drag them over to the desktop and it will actually copy the entire app to the desktop. One person said it was a problem with the image, but I can't imagine it would be. To me, it sounds like a WGM issue, but I can't figure out how to turn it off or change that particular setting.