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From: eabu111@orion.oac.uci.edu (Steven Luh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: AppleShare/File protect bit
Summary: Protection bit maybe accessed via DiskTools III
Message-ID: <282A229F.25896@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 04:33:35 GMT
References: <1991May8.134939.8041@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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In article <1991May8.134939.8041@cc.curtin.edu.au> chooper@cc.curtin.edu.au (Todd Hooper) writes:
>I'm trying to set the 'file protect' bits on some applications on a standard
>AppleShare file server, to stop people simply dragging copies onto their own
>floppy disks.
>
>However, ResEdit 2.1 (under SSW 6.0.7) just won't let me do this - the button
>is activated ok but no cross appears in the box. This is when I am logged into
>the server as 'Administrator'.

Try the DA Disktools III.  If I remember correctly, this DA still has that bit
available for access.  FYI, if one of your patrons use DiskTools III, they can
copy just about anything they want off your drive (I've found this out at work
and it really ticks me off when people do that).

I'm hoping that when we switch to System 7, we can try to put alias of all the
applications in one folder and protect all the rest (oh, DiskTools III doesn't
seem to have access to them for some reason) and maybe that will kill that bug
or something - still untested.

Steven