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From: newsuser@LU.Se (Lund Institute of Technology news server)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Appleshare query about sharing executables
Message-ID: <1988Mar6.175513.8478@LU.Se>
Date: 6 Mar 88 16:55:12 GMT
References: <4867@venera.isi.edu> <8803020501.AA09839@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: roland@DNA.LU.Se (Roland Mansson)
Organization: Computer Science, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
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In article <8803020501.AA09839@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> eaiu268@ORION.CF.UCI.EDU (David O'Rourke) writes:
>Yes it does, but the Macintosh doesn't have any facility for making files
>executable only.  If it's on an Appleshare volume, and you have access to the
>folder that it resides in then you can execute it directly off the server.
>
>But if you can see it to execute it, then you can copy it also.  Just as a rule
>of thumb, anything you can do on a local hard drive can be done over appleshare
>with no changes to the source code of the application.  The only thing
>appleshare changes is that it provides folder {read sub-directory} level
>protection of files.  You can also protect a file from being deleted by not
>allowing users to make changes to a folder.

This is true for version 1.1 of AppleShare. Version 2.0 (to be available
this Summer) adds a number of features. Among them is (quote from AppleLink):

    --  Copy-protection settings for applications: lets the network
        administrator set applications programs run from the server so that
        they cannot be copied by network users.

>David M. O'Rourke

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