Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdcsu!psych From: psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Re: PhoneNet and file service Message-ID: <5296@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> Date: 18 Nov 88 13:19:10 GMT References: <7060010@eecs.nwu.edu> Reply-To: psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology) Organization: Psychology Department Lines: 19 I have been away so I missed the original posting and probably much of the follow up stuff. Here we have used both Macjanet and MacServe as our networking software. We use floppies to boot from. On the server each machine has volume that contains a System Folder that is usually 1 to 1.5 meg. After loging on the user opens the System Folder on the server volume and holds option and command (cloverleaf) and double clicks the finder. This causes the system on the server volume to become the default volume. The diskette can then be "trashed" and the user can put their own floppies in the drive. This works well although it can be slow when a lot of users are trying to access the server at the same time. I have no experience with AppleShare but I would think a similar approach could be taken. Richard Crispin Dept. of Psychology Bitnet: psych@watdcs University of Waterloo Unix : psych@watdcsu.UWaterloo.ca Waterloo, Ont. Canada N2L 3G1 (519)885-1211 ext 2879