how can i prevent users changing wallpaper/screensaver?

[jayartibee]

Has anyone found an easy way of preventing children from circumventing the preference restrictions on networked accounts?

 

I have turned off "desktop and screensaver" in the preferences of both individuals and their groups- but they right-click on their desktops and change them that way.

 

Some of them are rather distracting!

[Kitkatninja]

What on a Mac? As it's in the Mac section (or did you mean in a Windows environment?). BTW weird title "christina aguilera and orlando bloom"

 

-ken

[jayartibee]

yes, on a Mac. (otherwise I'd have probably called it wallpaper)

 

Why a weird title? That's just the sort of desktop background the kids are choosing.

[Kitkatninja]

Sorry mate, didn't mean to sound a bit rude on my previous post

 

I can't check it out on my Mac as I took it home to try to upgrade, but I found this post, maybe it'll help you?

 

If not, there are guys here that know more about Mac's than me

 

-ken

[Ric_]

You may need to supply some more information - e.g. are the Macs using OpenDirectory for management, what kind of users have you set up, how have you tried to limit this setting so far, etc.

[Kitkatninja]

This may be slight different to what you're looking for, but have you heard of a program called "Deep Freeze"?

 

Deep Freeze Mac instantly protects and preserves baseline computer configurations. No matter what changes a user makes to a workstation, simply restart to eradicate all changes and reset the computer to its original state - right down to the last byte.

 

-Ken