Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!wetter From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK? Message-ID: <6463@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 8 May 88 18:52:37 GMT References: <1814@uhccux.UUCP> <1815@uhccux.UUCP> <2229@polyslo.UUCP> <1072@aucs.UUCP> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 18 In article <1072@aucs.UUCP> paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) writes: >In my early investigation of Appleshare, I was told that if you wanted >to have 10 people running the same program, then there would have to be >10 different copies of the software on the file server. This was totally >unacceptable so we went with MacJANET, which did not have this restriction. >Does the current Appleshare allow a single copy of a program to be used >simulataneously by any number of users? There is an info bit called 'shared' which means appleshare doesn't have to open more then one copy, it can open the application read only. If you set this in any version of appleshare, you can get away with one copy. PIerce Wetter ---------------------------------------------------------------- wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu Race For Space Grand Prize Winner. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Useless Advice #986: Never sit on a Tack.