This article applies to Macintosh Manager versions 1.4.1 and 2.0 to 2.2.
Follow these steps to allow client computers to access the cache.waf locally, rather than across the network:
1. In the Macintosh Manager admin application, click on the "Computers" tab and then the "Control" tab below it.
2. Select the option to "Force computer hard disk name to:" and type "Macintosh HD"
3. At the Macintosh Manager admin workstation, set up Explorer as you like it.
4. While in Internet Explorer, choose Preferences from the Edit menu.
5. Click the Advanced category in the Web Browser portion of the preferences list.
6. Click Empty Now in the Cache section of the preference panel.
7. Click Change Location.
8. Select the location Macintosh HD: System Folder as the cache location.
9. Set the cache size according to your preference.
10. Click OK.
11. Open the Macintosh Manager admin application.
12. Click your desktop.
13. Choose Hide Others from the Application menu.
14. Open the Macintosh Manager folder (the shared volume that has appeared on your desktop).
Note: If the user documents are stored on a different volume, connect to that volume.
15. Locate the Managed Preferences folder on the document storage volume. Also locate the Forced Preferences and Initial Preferences folders inside it.
16. Still at the admin workstation, drag the Internet Preferences file (System Folder: Preferences: Internet Preferences) and the Explorer folder (System Folder: Preferences: Explorer) into the Forced Preferences folder.
17. Using Network Assistant, locate all of the cache.waf files on the document volume(s), then delete them.
After you have completed these steps, the Internet Preferences file and the Explorer folder will be copied to an individual user's preferences folder (on the server) at time of login. If using Mac OS 8.6 or earlier workstations, these items will also be copied down to the local hard disk.
Tips
- If at a later time you want to let users regain their own Internet and Explorer settings, move the Explorer folder from the Forced Preferences folder to the Initial Preferences folder. If you want users to get predefined Internet prefs at first login, this file must go into the Forced Prefs folder. The reason is that the system creates the Internet Preferences file before the preference management begins following login, meaning that the preference management process would not overwrite a pre-existing file with an item from the Initial Preferences folder.
- Make sure you can connect to the documents volume (even if it is the default Macintosh Manager volume), and that you have read-write access to the Managed Preferences folder.
- In the workgroup settings, make sure you have "Copy preferences" selected in the Options panel for the workgroup. Also select the "Copy Internet Preferences or admin-defined" in the Global panel.
- Using the Labels command in the File menu, color code the Internet Preferences file and at least one item inside the Explorer folder at the server. Then log in as a user. After a successful test of your new settings, you should see the color coded items appear in the individual user's folder (the local Preferences folder on Mac OS 8.6 or earlier computers).
- Clients with differing startup disk names may not work properly. You should use the same startup disk name on all clients. By default, the startup disk is named Macintosh HD.