This article comprises the Read Me for Macintosh Manager version 1.2. This software was released by Apple on 06 January 2000 and is available for downloading from the Apple Software Updates Web site. Use the following URL to access the download directly:

http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11561

• Support for Mac OS 8.1 or later systems, including new options in the administration program.
• Fixes for some known problems. For a list of corrected problems, see "Major Problems Fixed in Version 1.2," at the end of this document.

• User preferences: Mac OS 9 now manages user preferences and stores them on the workgroup data volume, which, by default, is the Macintosh Manager server volume. Unlike previous versions of Macintosh Manager, Mac OS 9 can use the preferences for a user stored on the server without having to copy them to the client computer. Because preferences do not have to be copied between the server and the client workstation, users should be able to log in faster.
• Desktop items: Mac OS 9 saves the folder for desktop items only on the local volume and not on the server volume. Therefore, if users place items on the desktop, they must log in to the same computer to access those items. On netboot systems, instruct users not to place items on the desktop because all client image changes are erased any time the netboot server restarts.
• Keychains: Macintosh Manager creates a keychain for users when they log in the first time. When users log in using their Macintosh Manager password, the keychain unlocks. If a user or the administrator changes the user's password, Macintosh Manager does not update the keychain to the new password and the user's keychain may not unlock when logging in. To unlock the keychain and use its services, use the Keychain Access control panel.
• Application preferences: Because Mac OS 9 manages preferences, you can no longer add or remove specific preferences for applications. If an application does not save its preferences in the Preferences folder (in the System Folder), you may not be able to save individual preferences for each user. Contact the application developer to determine if an update is available.
• User documents: Macintosh Manager now saves user documents in a folder with the user's name in the Users folder on the workgroup data volume sharepoint.
• Login dialog: For security reasons, if you choose "Users choose their name from a list" in the Macintosh Manager administration program and "Users type their names" in the Multiple Users control panel, users must type their user name to log in.
• Multiple Users control panel: Macintosh Manager does not support some features in the Multiple Users control panel in Mac OS 9, including alternate passwords, user pictures, automatically detecting recently installed applications, and allowing users to let other users view their documents folders.

• a server process, either Mac OS X or AppleShare IP 6.3
• an administration application installed on the administrator's workstation
• client software installed on each computer you want to manage with Macintosh Manager

• Use the Installer to update each individual workstation.
• Use Network Assistant to copy the appropriate files to client workstations.
• If you already have Macintosh Manager 1.1 on client workstations, use the new auto-update feature that is now part of the client software. For instructions on using the auto-update feature, see "Using the Update Package," later in this document.

1. Open the Multiple Users control panel.
2. Click On for the Multiple User Accounts option.
3. Click the Options button to open the Options window.
4. Click the Other tab.
5. Select the "Macintosh Manager account (on network)" radio button.
6. Click Save and then close the Multiple User control panel to save changes.
7. Restart or log out (Command-Q) from the Finder to enter the Macintosh Manager login screen.

1. On one client computer, follow the steps described above to set up the client to select its accounts from Macintosh Manager. IMPORTANT Do not restart or log out yet.
2. Open the Network Assistant administration program and select the computers you want to update.
3. Open the Manage menu and choose Copy Items.
4. Type "Multi-User Prefs" in the text box and click Find. Select the file in the list and click Copy. The file is in the Preferences folder (in the System Folder) and contains the information that indicates where the client should find its accounts.
5. Open the Manage menu and choose Restart to restart the client computers.

1. Open the Macintosh Manager 1.2 Installer disk image and locate the "MM Update Package" file, which should be inside the Update Package folder.
2. Copy the "MM Client Package" file to the top level of your Multi-User Items folder on the server. This folder should be located inside the Macintosh Manager share point on the server.

1. Open the Macintosh Manager administration program.
2. Click the Workgroups tab, then click the Options panel.
3. Enable preference handling for each workgroup for which you want Macintosh Manager to preserve Mac OS 8.x users' preference files.
4. Click the Global tab, then click the Security panel.
5. Select which files are copied when users log in to a workgroup. You can choose to copy the entire Preferences folder, or just a preset list of Internet-related preferences.

• When using the Panels environment, after opening some older control panels, you will no longer be allowed to open additional control panels until you close the current control panel.
• On Mac OS 9 clients, the individual desktop picture aliases stored in the user's own Desktop Pictures folder are replaced by a single alias to the system Desktop Pictures folder.
• Locked items in the Apple Menu Items folder will not be deleted when the user logs into a different computer from the one he or she was previously using.
• Global and workgroup administrators will no longer be forced to enter an administrator password when ejecting volumes or printing.
• On Mac OS 8.x client computers, file sharing is not allowed in any environment, including System Access. If an attempt is made to start file sharing, it will be ignored and in some cases an error message will be displayed.
• When a user opens or saves a file, Macintosh Manager 1.2 will no longer show its own view of the disk hierarchy. Instead, the location shown in the window will be the actual location on the disk, because security on a folder is now enforced strictly by the file system. Depending on the version that you were previously running, this might mean that you will no longer see a Places button, or that when users move up the folder hierarchy from their own documents folder, the users will move to the top-level Documents folder instead of the desktop or places location.
• If a user belongs to more than one workgroup, only the workgroups that have the same Group Documents volume will show up in the menu that allows the user to switch workgroups without logging out.

• If a user belonged to only one workgroup, sometimes an alert message appeared requiring the user to shut down.
• Desktop printers were not remembered properly.
• Users could sometimes unmount volumes without an administrator password (if this option was activated) in restricted environments.
• In some cases, an inserted CD did not appear even though the user had access to it.
• Users could not directly copy files to a shared folder even when read and write access was allowed.
• Panels users were sometimes unable to log in if their Documents folder access was disabled.
• Even if the option to show a volume as a tab was disabled, sometimes volumes appeared.
• The workgroup menu always said "System Access" when a user logged into a workgroup that was accessed using the option to "always use selected workgroup" in the workgroup selection screen.
• Users could change their passwords when offline access was invoked; they can no longer do so.
• If you changed the administrator password in the login screen, the change did not take effect with other clients until you ran the administration program.
• Some problems with using control panels in the Panels environment have been corrected.
• A user could use the mini-debugger to quit the login process; this should no longer be possible.
• Disk quotas did not work properly for some users.
• An error message sometimes appeared when renaming removable media in the Panels environment.
• On some sleep-enabled computers, the Sleep button did not appear when you pressed the Power key at login time.
• If you did not have any desktop printers set up for a Finder workgroup, but used the "Remember last used printer" option, the printer wouldn't be remembered.
• If a user logged out during an idle lock or logoff session and the application that the user had open required the user to save changes to their document, if the user clicked Cancel, the Save dialog box did not reappear for 10 seconds. Now, for better security, users who click Cancel should immediately be presented with the same Save dialog box. This helps prevent other users from damaging the account of the user who is logging out.