ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) (09/10/89)
In article <8909071849.AA22489@icarus.cns.syr.EDU> demarsee@ICARUS.CNS.SYR.EDU (Darryl E. Marsee) writes: >For those who don't know, PSN is an AppleShare-compatible >server product that runs in the background of a Mac .... >For buying an N-user version of PSN, you get N number of disks >to put servers on N number of machines, each of which can >handle N number of concurrent users logged in. ... >they seem to not be able to communicate with > the Kinetics box. Sigh! Isn't there any other software out there which could talk through kinetics box and with the same licensing agreement as AppleShare (i.e. 1 server and N users logged in)? Is there no way to run an Appleshare fileserver in the bg of e.g. HyperCard? How does AppleShare 2.0 "know" if a program is AppleShare compatible? Is there a way to force AppleShare to run a any program in the foreground? I must say I'm very disappointed in Apple for AppleShare 2.0: the server doesn't run in the background and it's not possible to change CD in the CD-ROM without shutting down the server. And still it needs a dedicated systemfolder: why can't it run as a usual RDEV or Application (Multifinder friendly)?! /Olle
unocc07@zeus.unl.edu (Dave Caplinger) (09/11/89)
In article <1989Sep9.174852.11397@sics.se>, ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) writes: > > I must say I'm very disappointed in Apple for AppleShare 2.0: the server > doesn't run in the background and it's not possible to change CD in the CD-ROM > without shutting down the server. And still it needs a dedicated systemfolder: > why can't it run as a usual RDEV or Application (Multifinder friendly)?! > > /Olle Actually, I'm pretty satisfied with AppleShare 2.0... it seems that everything Apple does it gets more-or-less right the second time around :-) From the rumor mill over on comp.sys.mac, I've heard that Apple plans to release a non-dedicated server ("Personal AppleShare"?) product that, like TOPS, will run in the background while other things happen in the foreground. In actuality, AppleShare /does/ run in the background, for example when you are running PrintShare concurrently on the server, but it still needs a dedicated server Mac. If you think AppleShare is really bad, take a look at Novell some time. Especially "NetWare for Macintosh". :-) No real consolation, I realize... -/ Dave Caplinger /--------------------------------------------------------- Microcomputer Specialist, Campus Computing, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha mspecial@zeus.unl.edu ...!uunet!unocss!dent MSPECIAL@UNOMA1