girod@canisius.UUCP (Don Girod) (10/27/89)
We are setting up a teaching laboratory with 24 Mac IIcx's. They are on an ethernet with a central fileserver; the machines themselves have a single 1.44M floppy but no hard disk. The problem we have run into is that most mac applications seem not to be shareable; once a client machine runs the application, other machines on the network are prevented from launching that application--the application is "busy". One exception to this is Microsoft Word, but it is truly an exception. Does anyone know of a general solution to this problem? We are using Novell network software at present, but I do not believe that this problem is unique to Novell--rather it seems to be a feature of appleshare.
Armadillo@cup.portal.com (Russ Armadillo Coffman) (10/30/89)
Before worrying about multiple launches of an app off a file server, you might want to check the software license. Unless otherwise stated or agreed to, as in a site license, each user should have a personal copy. Some Mac apps specifically permit multi-launch - I think PageMaker does (assuming you've licensed all users). Many Mac apps write back to themselves to save setting and such, thus having multiple users would be a disaster. I'd check with each vendor for their app's physical and legal constraints. -R
6600pete@hub.UUCP (10/31/89)
From article <23498@cup.portal.com>, by Armadillo@cup.portal.com (Russ Armadillo Coffman): > Some Mac apps specifically permit multi-launch - I think PageMaker does > (assuming you've licensed all users). Many Mac apps write back to themselves > to save setting and such, thus having multiple users would be a disaster. I'd > check with each vendor for their app's physical and legal constraints. -R Just for the record, there is an entire Tech Note from Apple on network server applications and how to force non net-aware (but net-compatible) applications to run more than once. I've forgotten what number it is, but you find out by ftp'ing to apple.com, getting Tech Note 0, and finding out from that index which Tech Note covers network applications. | Pete Gontier, pete@cavevax.ucsb.edu; outgoing .UUCP addresses bounce | Editor: Macker, the online Mac programmer's journal <== coming soon! | Underground BBS: rlogin 128.111.41.100 -l bbs, pseudonyms allowed | This kid is looking for a job: Mac, DOS, C, Pascal, some 68000, 8088