Re: Mac OS 10.6 and Active Directory

This should help, I think.

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040524113537447

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Bruce Carter, Center for Creative Computing
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN  46556


-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Alston <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:31:26 -0500
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Mac OS 10.6 and Active Directory
>I run several labs of Mac computers, and am investigating integrating them
>with our Active Directory server.  One mac (so far) has been configured
>and
>what happens is that an "Other" account has been created on the Mac with a
>username and password box for students to use to log in.  Students can do
>this and authenticate with the Active directory server fine.  The problem
>is that in the past we have had a program called PCounter that runs (it is
>started at login on our old generic Student login account that all
>students
>used to use to login).  This program counts the number of pages a student
>prints so that when a student reaches a certain limit he/she must purchase
>more print quantity.  I need this same program to run for *every* student
>that could log into the Macs.  How can I set up a program to start at
>login
>for all the accounts that could login under the Other login box? (I have
>found no way under Accounts to setup login items for the Other account.)
>Since each user that logs in gets their own desktop, dock, etc. Is there a
>way to make this program run for every student without instructing the
>student *himself* to manually set the program to run after he/she logs in
>(which I am sure would be self-defeating)?