cck@cunixc.columbia.EDU (Charlie C. Kim) (01/26/88)
If the point is to get people up and running a "generic" boot disk works fine. This is pretty much the approach we use in our lab--except the users cannot personalize the disks (the bootdisk lauches a ramdisk, grabs an Aufs volume and drops out). (An advantage of using Aufs in a lab is that you can "copy-protect" programs on Aufs by protecting the data fork (if it isn't being used by the program) - just make sure you put at least one byte into it. This method isn't perfect, but it stops 99.99% of people). If you know/can figure how to get around this protection, please don't post it. IW II printing over AppleTalk is problematic. For every line to print, it checks the printer status first (using a papstatus call). So you have: iw: send me a line | I forget if the send me a line mac: tell me your status | is sent before the status is iw: my status is: x | requested or after. mac: here is a line iw: ack The traffic overhead is very high and very bursty with many short packets. The odds are that you still have problems on part of your cable. Use netcheck(?) from Farllon or Peek to check things out. Charlie C. Kim User Services Columbia University