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From: bdahlen@zephyr.cair.du.edu (Robert L. Dahlen - U. of Denver USA=)
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Subject: Re: mac applications file server
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Date: 6 May 91 19:25:06 GMT
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In article <1525@aoa.UUCP> rich@aoa.UUCP (Rich Snow) writes:
>I want to be able to check out applications from
>a common file server to Macintosh users. This is not such a
>big deal to  PC Netware users of Wordperfect I understand. But
>what about MS Word/Excel on the Mac? I can set up an AFS 
>fileserver (Novell advanced netware 2.2). But is there a way
>to trick the system so that it will allow users to check out
>only as many copies of Word/Excel as I buy liscences? Or, does

There are a couple of license counter for Appleshare networks available
but I don't know their names, both were recently compared in a trade rag,
again I'm not sure which :-(

>Is application sharing a reasonable thing to do on Appletalk?
>Are the appletalk users going to get fast enough performance
>openning Applications which live on the LAN server? On the one
>*	rich@aoa.utc.com

We are running applications from a Novell Netware for Mac server and
while it is pretty slow, if users don't know what fast is, they are not
too disappointed.  It takes about 15-20 seconds to load a WP/SS 
application from a 486 server with 16 Macs and 50 PC's running from it.

We will certainly switch to ethernet before investing in FastPath's, etc.
The cost becomes comparable, now that mac ethernet cards are becoming 
less expensive.
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