controlling access for 30 Macs in a room

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All the 30 machines are iMacs running Mac OS X 10.7.3. We just want people from a particular division(not anyone else) only to use them.

I know in Windows you can using active directory create accounts for the users on a domain to which the machines can authenticate when the users try to log in.

How do I do it in Mac? I am a newbie to Mac

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 

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All the 30 machines are iMacs running Mac OS X 10.7.3. We just want people from a particular division(not anyone else) only to use them.

I know in Windows you can using active directory create accounts for the users on a domain to which the machines can authenticate when the users try to log in.

How do I do it in Mac? I am a newbie to Mac

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Ummmmmm,
All on the same network, or is it a domain
 

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TYPO!! :)
All on the same network, or is it a domain???
 
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You could go old school and use NIS. I dislike NIS for large number of users in large environments, but for a small group of systems and users, it's not bad. Google and man pages are your friend.
 
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You could go old school and use NIS. I dislike NIS for large number of users in large environments, but for a small group of systems and users, it's not bad. Google and man pages are your friend.

Thanks, that is helpful.

I appreciate your advice and time.
 

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