[comp.dcom.lans] Novell file server for Mac.....

lim@INS.CWRU.Edu (Hock Koon Lim) (09/27/89)

   I am using the Novell file server(v2.15) to provide file service for 
the Macintoshs.  I have trouble to make the mac applications shareable
on the system.  I did set the file to be shareable but it did not fix
the problem.  When a user start "x" application program, no other user
can lauch this "x" program anymore until this user quit the program".
The message on the mac said the application is busy.  Novell claim their
implementation is fully compatiable with the appleshare file services.
Is anyone know how to make these stuff work.

Thanks,

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Hock-Koon Lim, Information Network services
Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, Ohio, USA  44106   
(216) 368-2982        lim@cwlim.ins.cwru.edu

cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster) (09/29/89)

In article <693@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> lim@INS.CWRU.Edu (Hock Koon Lim) writes:
>
>   I am using the Novell file server(v2.15) to provide file service for 
>the Macintoshs.  I have trouble to make the mac applications shareable
>on the system.  I did set the file to be shareable but it did not fix
>the problem.  When a user start "x" application program, no other user
>can lauch this "x" program anymore until this user quit the program".
>The message on the mac said the application is busy.  Novell claim their
>implementation is fully compatiable with the appleshare file services.
>Is anyone know how to make these stuff work.

The problem is not with the network.  The applications must be written
to allow them to be executed by multiple users at once.  If the code
isn't in the applications, changing the shareable bit won't fix the
problem.  Sorry!

--Cy--