Can dock items in Guest Account be changed "permanently"?

Okay, I used the information above and was able to make permanent changes to the dock on the user account. I learned the following lesson:

In order to do that you must be logged in as the Guest. The WM software, at least with my limited knowledge of how these things work, does not make permanent changes to the Guest account "remotely" via the administrator account. So it worked for me, and thanks for all the information.

I have another question though: My goal is to allow a Guest to go on the Internet. So I am making Safari available to Guest. I would like to make FireFox available also. But here is the problem:

Each time the two browsers start from scratch because all the cutomized files get deleted when the Guest logs out. This is specially more annoying with Firefox since its barebone lunch requires more steps before it actually begins working.

I want Safari or Firefox to open up in a Google page, and ready to go. What do I need to do to get the settings file get saved?

Thanks in advance.

Farzad

Yes, that was another thing that I learend while trying to do this. Thanks.

Linc Davis wrote:

You would have to get hold of a copy of Workgroup Manager, which is part of Server Admin Tools. Download the installer, run it, and throw everything it installs away except WM.

Authenticate to localhost as your local admin. Select the guest account, go to the Preferences dialog, select "Always Manage," select Dock, and set the preferences as you wish. Save.

I've tried this, but the authentication does not work. Since you said “as your local admin”, I've filled the address field with "127.0.0.1" and my admin user name and password for the two other fields; it said it's invalid. What's wrong?

Open WGM, cancel the Connect window, choose Server menu - View Directories... (Command D).

Note & dismiss the warning about local configuration, click the lock at top right & authenticate as an admin user.

Ah, cancelling the Connect window did the trick, thank you!

Linc Davis' advice ("Authenticate to localhost as your local admin.") was rather confusing for that step, especially since I have never used WGM and haven't dealt with server utilities either.