Hi
We'll be introducing a couple of Pro apps courses in our Apple lab in
October and I was wondering what methods those of you already running
such courses were using for user management, and if there are any
Casper 'gotchas' I should be aware of. To be more specific, we'll be
running Final Cut and Logic Pro. Owing to the way our classrooms work,
we envisage that a course may run, say, on a couple of days a week
over a period of several weeks. I need to adjust various existing
Casper policies (e.g. user account clean up) accordingly.
I was thinking about using Leopard server's external accounts for this
purpose. The users would have a FW drive with their account and course
data on it. We could store the drives between sessions so the users
could just carry on where they left even if they were attending the
course over a few weeks. And obviously for Final Cut it would be
better to work with data on a local hard drive rather than over a
network.
It's one idea. Does anyone have any experience with using external
accounts and Casper? I've never tried to work with external accounts
"in anger", as it were but I'd be very interested to hear how people
manage such courses with Casper.
Also, when packaging Final Cut Express in the past I've tended to
break out e.g. Apple Loops into a separately installable package.
Given that FC Studio is effectively a suite, do people currently
deploying it recommend breaking it out into its component parts, or
bundling the whole lot up together in one big lump? I realise that
requirements will vary but it would still be interesting to know what
people find easiest to do with these big applications.
Any thoughts gratefully received.
Thanks
James
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