21602MR@MSU.BITNET (Mark Rosenberg) (11/21/89)
I thought I remembered someone posting something somewhere about being able to run HC over appleshare ? We have some Macs (dual drive se's) and there isn't enough floppy room to have HC on the disk also. I thought if I had a individua l copy of Home on each system disk that we would be okay, but I get the THIS APPLICATION IS BUSY/MISSING message when trying this. Any ideas ? Thanks, /M.
dent@unocss..unl.edu (Stan Wileman) (11/23/89)
21602MR@MSU.BITNET (Mark Rosenberg) writes: >I thought I remembered someone posting something somewhere about being able to >run HC over appleshare ? We have some Macs (dual drive se's) and there isn't >enough floppy room to have HC on the disk also. I thought if I had a individua >l copy of Home on each system disk that we would be okay, but I get the THIS >APPLICATION IS BUSY/MISSING message when trying this. Any ideas ? >Thanks, >/M. I doubt that I was the person you were talking about, but here we run 13 SE's with 20-Meg hard drives, off of a SE/30 server running AppleShare. As a front- end to the applications, we have a HyperCard stack that is shared by all of the SE's. A copy of the HyperCard application has to reside on the boot disk (and we have it set as the startup application) for this to work; otherwise Finder won't know where to FInd it. :-) It may be possible, if you can get the AppleShare volume to mount, and convince the Finder to take a look at it, so it remembers where HyperCard is, but I'm not sure how to do this... (Our 'home' stack is actually a very small stack that mounts the AppleShare volume, and then runs a stack called "Main" that lives on the server..) -/ Dave Caplinger /--------------------------------------------------------- Microcomputer Specialist, Campus Computing, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha mspecial@zeus.unl.edu ...!uunet!unocss!dent MSPECIAL@UNOMA1
CHOOPER@acad.cut.oz (Todd Hooper) (11/24/89)
In article <15321602MR@MSU>, 21602MR@MSU.BITNET (Mark Rosenberg) writes: > I thought I remembered someone posting something somewhere about being able to > run HC over appleshare ? We have some Macs (dual drive se's) and there isn't > enough floppy room to have HC on the disk also. I thought if I had a individua > l copy of Home on each system disk that we would be okay, but I get the THIS > APPLICATION IS BUSY/MISSING message when trying this. Any ideas ? Yep. Your copy of the HyperCard application on the server is probably only set to allow one user. Thus, the first user get's in o.k., but others are rejected. To fix this, you need ResEdit, and write access to the HyperCard application. Launch ResEdit, move to the server volume, locate HyperCard and do a 'Get Info' on it. The 'Shared' bit probably isn't set. Set it and close the get info box to save the changes. I hope this is of some help. Also, a couple of other ideas that I have used that could be of help - - You might want to set up some particular search paths in the Home stack you are using, so HyperCard can find all it's relevant stacks on the server. - If you want to use a wide range of fonts with HyperCard, but you don't have room on the floppies, remember you can always install them into the HyperCard application itself! (Hold down the Option key when selecting 'Open' in Font/DA Mover). -- Todd Hooper Computing Centre Curtin University of Technology PSImail: psi%050529452300070::CHOOPER Western Australia ACSnet : CHOOPER@acad.cut.oz Bitnet : CHOOPER%acad.curtin.edu.au%munnari.oz@cunyvm.bitnet UUCP : {enea,mcvax,uunet,ubc-cs,ukc}!munnari!acad.curtin.edu.au!CHOOPER
taylorj@yvax.byu.edu (11/25/89)
>I thought I remembered someone posting something somewhere about being able to >run HC over appleshare ? We have some Macs (dual drive se's) and there isn't >enough floppy room to have HC on the disk also. I thought if I had a individua >l copy of Home on each system disk that we would be okay, but I get the THIS >APPLICATION IS BUSY/MISSING message when trying this. Any ideas? How are you starting HyperCard? If you just click on HyperCard, it will generally find a copy of Home on the server, and chances are someone else is "using" it. You only need one copy of HyperCard, but you need multiple copies of the Home stack. As long as each user starts up on their own copy of the Home stack everything works ok. Actually, things don't work ok when you go off to another application. HyperCard will try to find the Home stack on the server, which will either cause "busy/missing" messages or a "where is Home?" dialog. You can solve this problem by giving all startup disks the same name and messing around with the "Misc" STR# resource in HyperCard. Jim Taylor Microcomputer Support for Curriculum | Brigham Young University | Bitnet: taylorj@byuvax.bitnet 101 HRCB, Provo, UT 84602 | Internet: taylorj@yvax.byu.edu