Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!psych From: psych@watserv1.waterloo.edu (R. Crispin - Psychology) Subject: Re: fonts used by network shared applications - any good solutions? Message-ID: <1991Feb14.170117.7459@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo References: Date: Thu, 14 Feb 1991 17:01:17 GMT Lines: 28 In article aloke_majumdar.cis@yccatsmtp.ycc.yale.ed writes: > > In my few months of exposure to Appleshare networks, I have been >encountering one particular problem in numerous forms, viz. how to maintain >font consistency in an application that's on a shared fileserver. I wonder if >anyone has found good ways to solve this problem. I'm not a regular reader of >this newsgroup, so... Much stuff deleted... Sorry for the followup. Reply bounced my response back to me. I had the same problem with our office network. We are using MacJanet rather than AppleShare but the solution should work with AppleShare. We purchased Suitcase for each Mac. I put a copy of all the fonts and DAs that we use on a read only volume on the server. Each user gets attached to this volume automatically when they log on. Suitcase is then configured to open these in shared mode at startup. Non of our machines have their own Hard disks and so once they have logged on the users switch launch a finder on their network volume. If users have a harddisk of their own this method will still work but the users will have to actually do the access each time the machine is restarted. Richard Crispin Phone: (519)888-4781 Dept. of Psychology EMail: psych@watdcs.uwaterloo.ca University of Waterloo psych@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca Waterloo, Ont. Canada N2L 3G1