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From: Brian.V.Hughes@dartmouth.edu (Brian V. Hughes)
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Subject: Re: Tips for Macs on a student network
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Date: 18 Jun 91 16:31:54 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.165139.575@groucho>
martyz@idui1.csrv.uidaho.edu (Marty Zimmerman) writes:

> Any tips for setting up Macs (LCs in this case) on a network in a student lab?
> 
> As far as I know, there is no way to have them boot from the network, but I
> would like to convice them to read their system folder from the net to speed
> things up a bit.  Any advice in this area will be greatly appreciated.

    This would be a great idea, but I don't believe that it is
possible. I worked for a while in a lab pretty much as you are
descibing, but we had one of every type of Mac on our network, which is
a subset of the main network here at Dartmouth. We had one major piece
of software that saved us coutless ours of having to deal with problem
users scewing up the hard drives; FILEGUARD. Purchace a 10 pack for the
lab and install it on each of the LC's. It will allow you to completely
control the access that the students will have to every piece of the
hard drive including the system folder. It is an absolute lifesaver.
    I also strongly recommend, as did someone else, that you keep a
backup of the main contents of the hard drives in a locked folder on
the server.

> The hardware: 10 Mac LCs with Ethertalk adaptors.  The server is currently a
> Mac IIfx, but will eventually be a Mac IIci.  We can use either System 7 or
> 6.0.7.

    The server probably won't really matter, as long as you have
sufficient disk space for everything that you want to keep there. If
you have the Ram for the LCs I would recommend using Sys 7.0. It will
allow you to customize other aspects that you can't do as easily in
6.0.7. For instance you could set up a standard list of aliases that
access folders, applications and documents on the server and install
them in the apple menu folder of each of the LCs.
    This is the direction that I would go in if I were starting from
the ground level as you are. Later.


-Hades
 Brian Hughes
 hades@Eleazar.Dartmouth.Edu
 Dartmouth Medical School - Computer Information Specialist