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Offline tyrone_lass

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Stop MACs accessing all printers
« on: February 03, 2014, 04:07:07 PM »
Just connected a MAC to the network (via network cable) Is there anyway to block/stop the teacher from being able to connect to every printer in the school?
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Offline dfinney

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Re: Stop MACs accessing all printers
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2014, 09:33:16 AM »
Only admins can install in Mac OSX so make a separate user account for teachers/pupils and set it as standard. When they need something installed they have to come to you. You can also mess around with the mdnsresponder and stuff like that but you'll more than likely screw something up as it has to be done via Terminal.
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Re: Stop MACs accessing all printers
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2014, 04:08:08 PM »
As an admin you can set different levels of access for users in Mac OS X.  For Teachers you may want to let them access some system prefs and restrict others.
You can uncheck the admin access for a user account under 'Accounts' in the System Preferences. Under 'Parental controls' you can set what a user can and can't access. Wish I could stop my lot from changing the desktop picture.  I know there's a way of doing it in the terminal, but I'd rather not go into all that gobbledy-gook.
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