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From: lrm3@quads.uchicago.edu (Lawrence Reed Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: AppleShare fileserver problem
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Date: 7 Nov 90 05:41:05 GMT
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mcolthea@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Max Coltheart) writes:
> I am running a network consisting of a a IIcx with 80Mb hard
>disk and 12 Mac Pluses, using AppleShare fileserver. For almost
>every application on the hard disk, opening it from one of the
>Pluses prevents it from being opened on any of the others: the
>application is busy is the message.This rather defeats the purpose
>of having a network! What am I doing wrong?

Make sure that the folder on the server from which the users are trying to
launch the applications from is locked.  If applications are still refusing
to launch on more than one machine at once, try setting the "Shared" attribute
of the non-functioning applications with ResEdit (do "Get Info" on the file
and you will see a checkbox called "Shared".  Set it.).  You didn't say which
applications were causing the problem, so I am not sure that this is the
solution, but I had some trouble getting NCSA Telnet to run off of a server
multiple machines and this procedure fixed it quite nicely.

If this doesn't help, drop me a line & I'll try to think of something else...

Lawrence Miller