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6In Disc Media or Other Media, select “Eject all removable media at logout.”
7Click 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.
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 |
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Account Expiry | Whether to delete mobile accounts and how soon to do so after |
| the user’s next login |
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Rules | The folders you want to sync at login and logout (or in the |
| background) and how frequently to sync folders in the background |
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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.”
Chapter 10 Managing Preferences
