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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: AppleShare strange "features"
Message-ID: <10464@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 18 Oct 88 17:45:19 GMT
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In article <4307@bsu-cs.UUCP> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>I have a few comments to make and questions to ask about our recently
>installed AppleShare File Server 2.0 networks. >
>First item:
>     We have a small network set up in one of our public labs.  On this
>network we have various software installed (we own software for each
>station, so we are not breaking any laws).  We can successfully launch
>an application off of the file server by double-clicking on a document
>created by that software.  But if we try to do the same thing on a second
>workstation, we get a message that the file is "busy or in use".  Then
>we tried launching from the application directly.  No problems at all.
>Feature, bug, or minor annoyance?

Not a bug.  This feature is on an application per application basis.
Some won't give you the message "This file is busy or in use" if they
have multi-user capabilities.  Some will give you the message even if
they have multi-user capapbilities that have been supressed.  In this
case, whip out ResEdit and Get Info on the file.  You'll notice the
"Shared" bit is off.  Click it on.  If the program can support multi-users,
from now on you won't get that message.

>Second item:
>     On a second file serving network that we set up, we have a copy of
>HyperCard installed to be used for 9 machines (all came with HyperCard).
>However only one person can launch HyperCard.  If a second tries (either
>directly or indirectly by double-clicking on the application or on a stack)
>they get the message "application is busy or in use".  But if we do the
>same thing on our other network, it works.  All settings appear to be the
>same.

Hmmm...see above tip.  Check the copies of HyperCard on each network.

Hope some of these hints help...


Ken



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