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From: cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Novell file server for Mac.....
Summary: Problem is with the applications, not the net
Message-ID: <262@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 89 21:22:01 GMT
References: <693@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu>
Reply-To: cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster)
Organization: Ashton Tate Devlopment Center Glendale, Calif.
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In article <693@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> lim@INS.CWRU.Edu (Hock Koon Lim) writes:
>
>   I am using the Novell file server(v2.15) to provide file service for 
>the Macintoshs.  I have trouble to make the mac applications shareable
>on the system.  I did set the file to be shareable but it did not fix
>the problem.  When a user start "x" application program, no other user
>can lauch this "x" program anymore until this user quit the program".
>The message on the mac said the application is busy.  Novell claim their
>implementation is fully compatiable with the appleshare file services.
>Is anyone know how to make these stuff work.

The problem is not with the network.  The applications must be written
to allow them to be executed by multiple users at once.  If the code
isn't in the applications, changing the shareable bit won't fix the
problem.  Sorry!

--Cy--