phil@waikato.ac.nz (11/08/90)
In article <1990Nov7.054105.19498@midway.uchicago.edu>, lrm3@quads.uchicago.edu (Lawrence Reed Miller) writes: > mcolthea@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Max Coltheart) writes: >> I am running a network consisting of a a IIcx with 80Mb hard >>disk and 12 Mac Pluses, using AppleShare fileserver. For almost >>every application on the hard disk, opening it from one of the >>Pluses prevents it from being opened on any of the others: the >>application is busy is the message.This rather defeats the purpose >>of having a network! What am I doing wrong? > > Make sure that the folder on the server from which the users are trying to > launch the applications from is locked. If applications are still refusing > to launch on more than one machine at once, try setting the "Shared" attribute > of the non-functioning applications with ResEdit (do "Get Info" on the file > and you will see a checkbox called "Shared". Set it.). You didn't say which > applications were causing the problem, so I am not sure that this is the > solution, but I had some trouble getting NCSA Telnet to run off of a server > multiple machines and this procedure fixed it quite nicely. > I'm certain this is the problem. I haven't struck an application yet which didn't need this bit set for multiple users, and didn't work once it was (hope the double negatives aren't too cryptic). The applications on our server are: MacWrite II, MacDraw II, WriteNow 2.2, MathType 2.11, SuperPaint 2.0*, Maple, Minitab, ANUGraph, KaleidaGraph, NCSA Telnet 2.3. * SP 2.0 complains about not being able to access the Prefs file, but runs OK. -- Phil Etheridge (phil@waikato.ac.nz) /\ /\ -+-,--, .--, ._ Computer Services/Mathematics & Statistics / \/ \ / /--< /-- / University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ. / \/ /__.) \_ /