Setting Parental Controls in Leopard
Parental Controls have seen huge improvements in Leopard. Macworld is running an excerpt from my ebook Take Control of Users & Accounts in Leopard, which shows you how to set up parental controls for your kids. If you do have kids, and want to have control over when they can use their Mac, what times they can use it, which applications they can run, and what they can access on the Internet, check out this article. If you really want to understand these features, I’d suggest picking up my book, which goes into great detail about how to use parental controls.
Hi Kirk,
Glad to see you getting some exposure in MacWorld.
Do you have more books about Leopard in the works?
Ginger Campbell, MD
The Brain Science Podcast
Books and Ideas
Hi Ginger,
That’s all I have in the works about Leopard for now. Other ideas being
discussed, but the general book market for OS books has plummeted in recent
years. Everyone just learns by reading websites.
Kirk
I used a pipe symbol on the Macworld webpage, and well, that caused havoc with their validation routines.
Anyway, my question is this:
I have a user setup with the "Simple Finder" in Leopard. I would like this "Simple Finder" user to be able to:
-Have their Documents really point to a shared network volume
-Have their Documents searchable via Spotlight
Thoughts?
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You can set their home folder to be on another volume; I cover that in my ebook
(it’s in the Advanced options in the Accounts pane). You could, of course, also
just have an alias point to a folder on another volume, if you want just the
Documents folder elsewhere.
As for Spotlight, you’d have to test it. Since the files would be outside the user’s
space, I’m not sure if they would get indexed correctly. A lot would depend on
the permissions of the shared volume.
Kirk
Thanks for the suggestions, Kirk.
I took the alias route for now, and well, I suspect due to the number of files (~1100), the simple finder only allows the managed user to browse more than the first ~20 files that it can display in it’s restricted window size. I guess that number of files breaks the simple finder code?
You don’t see arrows at the bottom of the window to access more files?
I do when the number of files is low (below 100?). Otherwise, the prev/next arrows with the number in between does not appear.
I just tried putting a bunch of stuff in the Shared folder, and it showed all of it. I
added more, and it still showed it. First, it showed number icons from 1 to 9,
then, where there was too much, just showed a single icon. Check; you should
be able to see everything.
Kirk
Hmmm….Was this in icon view? I believe this is the only option simple finder users get. If that is the case, on a 1024×768 screen you only get 20 files displayed in a simple finder window. 9 * ~20 files = 180 files. Can you try using >1K files?
Note that I performed this test on a shared volume and the user’s home directory which is on the system OS local disk.
When I had more files, those 9 numbers disappeared, and there was only one. I
clicked the right arrow and it kept going to the end (in my test, around 180
files).
Kirk