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From: mikeoro@hubcap.clemson.edu (Michael K O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Setting Macintosh clocks over AppleTalk
Message-ID: <7461@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 89 17:20:23 GMT
References: <1989Dec14.203016.20796@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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From article <1989Dec14.203016.20796@terminator.cc.umich.edu>, by Gavin_Eadie@um.cc.umich.edu (Gavin Eadie):
> In the AppleTalk environment, no such thing exists at present so this 
> posting asks some questions, in case I'm about to start duplicating some 
> other effort by implementing something myself:
> 
> *** Has anyone written anything to set Mac clocks over AppleTalk?
>

As someone already posted, there is such a creature alive and it is
called LABtools and it is written by me.  I have been promising a new version
for about a month now, but school got in the way.  I have, i think, all the
bugs out of the new version now, so it should be posted sometime late next
week.

What does LABtools do?

*Reset data and time      
*Reset control panel settings (i.e. desktop pattern, mouse rate, volume, etc)
*Restart machines
*Shutdown machines
*Post a message to machines allowing a reply from the user or not allowing
   a reply.  The dialog will time out on their machine after 45 seconds.
*Clean unwanted files off a machine

All this is done over appletalk.  An installer program is run on machines
to install a driver and an INIT. An administrator program then requests that
machines perform certain actions.  Password protection is provided as well
as the ability to set up different groups within a network or set of networks
to prevent unauthorized access by someone else using the program.

LABtools 2.0, the new version to come out, also works over zones!

Send me e-mail if you'd like a copy.  Copies will also be sent to 
comp.binaries.mac as well as sumex-aim.

Oh, LABtools is SHAREWARE and costs $40 per network.  Pretty cheap huh?


-Mike.