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gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) writes:

>How do people usually handle dwrites for the
>loginwindow, etc. on client machines? If you mount all of
>root from a server, don't you get that server's defaults
>when you do dreads on the client? This seems less than
>desirable. 

The dwrite database (I think accurately called the 'defaults
database') is actually stored in the ~/.NeXT directory.  That goes
for ~root as well.  So, it depends on where home directories come
from, not /private/etc or anything like that.
Barring netbooting, most people have client machines using their own
/ partition, plus more directories for applications, home
directories, etc.  With netbooting, yes, you would use the defaults
for root on the server machine probably. (With the standard netboot
setup)
Check out DefaultMgr by Drew Davidson, which makes this task a lot
easier for system administrators.  The new version that handles
netinfo is commercial, published by CuillaMartin.  I never saw it,
but from Drew's descriptions while he was designing it, it seems
like it might solve all of our problems.

One way to set everyone's dwrite is a su command that executes a
command as each user each night.  Many people do this to turn off
PublicWindowServer for each user.
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