garrett@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (06/28/89)
I am getting ready to set up a lab of Macintosh systems. To start with, we have 5 Mac+s and 1 Mac II. These machines are all going to be using a VAX system as a file server with the AlisaShare system. I have several questions in regard to how we can work with this kind of setup for a computer lab. I would like to make sure that the person who walks up to the machine doesn't boot the system from their own system disk. I would like to lock a system disk into the internal drive slot that will only be removable by our systems people to facilitate software upgrades, etc. I know there is a piece of hardware called "The muzzle" that covers up the internal drive's opening, but would covering that opening with a disk still inside cause a problem? Is there some kind of init available that will disable the "eject" sequence that normally occurs at shutdown time? Is there anything else that I could do? (short of voiding my equipment warranties and disabling the eject mechanism on all the internal drives, of course ;-) I would also like to be able to track per-user laserwriter spooled printing. With AlisaPrint, I can capture the laserwriters in our lab and make them only available as spooled devices, but for now, I can only see how many pages the "Appletalk" account has printed. Since the person's Chooser name is mapped into a VMS account name for accessing the AlisaTalk volumes, couldn't AlisaPrint do this also? Maybe someone else has already found a way? Enforcing page quotas isn't necessary, but we just want to see where all the paper is going... Finally, does anyone know of a product (system init or what have you) which would enable one to do volume shadowing on a mac- based appleshare server system? All we really need is something that would duplicate all file creations/deletions/reads/writes on one attached scsi drive on the server to another attached scsi drive, essentially giving us a duplicate of the original drive in case of a failure. Even if this isn't available, if one brings up a server system as a regular mac (boot from floppy, with server disk attached), if you drag-copy the contents of the server disk to another disk of equal size,will all the proper appleshare permissions, etc. be taken along properly? Thanks in advance for any help you all might be able to offer! +-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Joel J. Garrett, Research Associate | Phone: (302)-451-2332 | | Center for Composite Materials | inet: garrett@oscar.ccm.udel.edu | | University of Delaware | - or - | | Newark, Delaware 19716 | garrett@udel.edu | +-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+