How to setup Workgroups named with numerals?

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How to setup Workgroups named with numerals?

Hi all,

I took a few moments to kick off a "trial server" running 10.8 on a spare iMac in my school. I figure I'll test it out before wiping and upgrading the school's current server.

Traditionally, each year group of students is a workgroup is named by the year they begin at the school. I wanted to setup year groups, using the Server App, with numerals: 2013, 2012, 2011, etc. However I couldn't. A message would come up saying I couldn't use spaces or punctuation (but I only had numbers). I could create a group called "teachers" but no go with the year groups using numerals.

Any advice?

Dave.

Posted on Jun 20, 2013 6:32 PM

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Simon Slavin

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Jun 21, 2013 2:23 AM in response to teacher_dave

Can't create a group which looks exactly like a number. Sorry. Instead, call them 'Year2011' or 'ClassOf2011' or something like that.

(The technical reason: Groups have both names and automatically generated numbers. Some commands for doing things to groups accept either the name or the number: if what you type starts with a digit they assume you're using the number, if it starts with a letter it assumes you're using the name. So it stops you using numbers as names because it would get that wrong.)

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Jun 21, 2013 2:25 AM in response to Simon Slavin

Thanks, Simon. Nice to know and an easy solution. Much appreciated.

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