Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 284)

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3 Click the lock and enter your user name and password.
4 Click the Computers tab and select a computer account from the list.
5 Click Cache, then click “Update the Cache.”
How Preference Management Works
Managed preference settings can be applied to user, group, or computer accounts. The final
set of preferences a user has is a combination of preference settings for his or her own user
account, preferences for the workgroup chosen at login, and preferences for the computer
he or she is currently using.
For some preferences, such as Finder preferences, user settings override group settings and
group settings override computer settings. Other preferences, such as printer preferences,
have an additive result. For example, the final list of printers available to a user is a
combination of the computer printer list, the group printer list, and the user’s printer list.
Preferences for applications, Dock items, and login items behave in a similar manner.
In some cases, you may find it easier and more useful to set certain preferences for only one
type of record. For example, you could set printer preferences only for computers, set
application preferences only for workgroups, and set Dock preferences only for users. In
such a case, no override or addition occurs for these preferences because the user inherits
them without competition.
Preference Management Options
When you manage preferences for a user, group, or computer account, you can choose to set
the preferences once, always, or never using radio buttons in the management bar.
Preferences
Computer (C)
Group (G)
User (U)
C+G+U
Added Overridden Inherited