Macintosh Manager 2.0: Mac OS 8 Clients Do Not Copy Administrator-Defined Preferences

Mac OS 8 computers with Macintosh Manager 2.0 client software do not download administrator-defined preferences. Log-on and log-off times may increase because of this.
Symptom

Client computers download all the preference files in a user's home. When the user logs off, the computer uploads all the user's preferences to his home on the server. Because the user's preferences are copied back and forth, log-on and log-off times increase as the number and size of preference files increase.


Solution

Delete any unnecessary preferences, like browser cache files. This reduces the time needed to copy the preferences.

For more information on how preference files are handled with Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 Macintosh Manager clients, see the "Additional Information" section of document 31257: "Macintosh Manager: How to Set up Netscape Preferences."

A future update of Macintosh Manager may resolve this issue.
Published Date: Feb 18, 2012