david@cwlim.INS.CWRU.Edu (11/09/89)
Dear any Mac with Novell users,
I need some help. I have a network with Macs and IBM and others on
my campus net. I am using Novell 2.15 with Mac VAPs 1.01 to provide
software to my Mac users. I have a few problems,
1. A Mac file can not be made Execute Only and can therefore
be copied freely buy my Mac users. My vendors will not be
happy with this fact. How does one protect Mac files?
2. Novell's VAPs allow you to set zone numbers for printers.
How do you make this work. We want certain printers in
specific zones invisible to students. I can't seem to get
the printers to appear anywhere but the default zone. (*)
3. The Mac VAPs keep track for EVERY desktop move made by
every user. After about a week, the file becomes quite
large and when you click on an icon, you could grow old
waiting for the folder to open. That watch gets very
boring to look at. The only method I have found at fixing
this is by re-installing the VAPs each time. There must be
a better way, does anyone know what it is? And do the VAPs
allow me to run them from more then one server on the net.
The manual has a very unclear line about this and about
collisions of advertising services. If my VAP running server
goes down, MACs are powerless until I bring it back up.
4. How can I make MAC files sharable? If I have to put one copy
of a program per user, the diskspace will be out of this
world. Any suggestions?
5. In Novell, IBMs have a menu. Is their a similar product sold
for the MAC's. One of the labs on campus use hypercard stacks,
but I need an idiot proof menu just like the IBMs use.
Well I think that should keep the fingers happy for a little while out
there in net-land. I greatly appreciate any ANY help to any of these
questions anyone can provide. Please, enlighten me! Thank you.
Either answer here or mail me direct. Thanks again....
Dave
david@cwlim.ins.cwru.edu