Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bgsuvax!denbeste From: denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK? Message-ID: <2106@bgsuvax.UUCP> Date: 9 May 88 15:48:47 GMT References: <1072@aucs.UUCP> Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh. Lines: 28 From article <1072@aucs.UUCP>, by paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele): > 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. It depends on the program. One of the finder flags can be toggled to allow multi-launching. By default, it is not set. This is because some programs are not well behaved under appleshare and write spool files to the application directory with non-unique names. MacWrite 5.0 and Word 3.01 are both shipped with the multi-launch flag set and work well under appleshare. The thing I would like is a mechanism allowing me to say how many copies of an application may be running at a time. This way, I can have the server make sure that no more than the licensed number of copies are being run. The problem that drives me batty under appleshare is that there is no such thing as a superuser. If I need to play with files that are in multiple user's areas, I have to either keep logging in, or shut the server down. Also, you have to shut the server down to add users or change passwords. -- William C. DenBesten | denbeste@bgsu.edu Dept of Computer Science | CSNET denbeste%andy.bgsu.edu@relay.cs.net Bowling Green State University | UUCP ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!bgsuvax!denbeste Bowling Green, OH 43403-0214 |