NETWORK ACCOUNT SERVEr

[jkell311]

Hi, My name is Jayden and I run a medium sized business. Currently I have 8 Macs and 4 PC's in my building. The current problem is I do not have a server. I have what some might call a server (A computer with a hard drive for each user) but i do not have an account server. My goal is to be able to log into any account that i have set for the server i need to buy. I want to be able to log in from a mac or a pc like the computer i was logging into was the computer itself. So it would have all of the setting the user had no matter what computer it was logged into (as long as it was connected to the server of course)

Thanks,

 

[nichebarker]

So basically, you want to have everything centralized on the server? If it were me I would set up a server with Windows Server of some variety. Active Directory great for managing accounts across a network. You can specify just about everything, from making all the desktops be forced into a uniform, to when a person is allowed to log in, what drives/folders/files they can access and what level, etc. You can set up shares, private storage, etc on the server. There are many other useful features. The setup is pretty straight forward too. If you are looking for a free solution though, there are multiple linux builds out there that would work, but be prepared to spend a while getting everything just right. (I am not as linux savvy as I should be when it comes to servers; also note that I may be a little biased as I have worked on windows server for quite a while in business-type environments)