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From: darkin@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu (Danny Arkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Fileserver user counter
Message-ID: <1991Jan6.174658.20326@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 91 17:46:58 GMT
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In article <637.2783DEF1@busker.fidonet.org> Robert.Knauerhase@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Robert Knauerhase) writes:
>Reply-To: rck@george.CES.CWRU.Edu
>
>In article <1990Dec27.190013.3724@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> rck@alpha.ces.cwru.edu
>(Robert Knauerhase) writes:
>>    I need pointers/suggestions/hints on what's the best way to monitor
>>the number of users using an application over an AppleShare fileserver.
>>Basically, there are several programs of which we own several copies,
>>and would like to make that number of copies available on the server.
>[snip]
>
>Forgive me for quoting my own article (I _did_ shorten it a bit!) but I
>got *no* replies to the question...  Surely someone has solved this problem,
>right?!?
>
>Rob Knauerhase
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I've had good success using MacUser on a server system where
users launch applications AND files from a file server.  They
only use floppies as boot disks and this is where I put the
MacUser program.  The MacUser data file is on the Server in a
share folder (AppleShare) and is invisible.  Parameters are set
so that only application time is recorded and not Finder time.
The data is pulled into Excel for evaluation, and using simple
sorts I can calculate use by application as well as user.