wab2@po.cwru.edu (Wm. Beasley) (06/15/90)
Help! Just found out about and downloaded Public Folder, the freebie from Claris allowing passive file exchange over Appletalk. Followed the instructions in the docs (such as they were) carefully. Public folder is now in my system folder, and appears in the chooser as it should (though no other public folders are selectable). When I reboot, though, it's icon is x-ed out, indicating that it is NOT installing. Thought about conflict with Gatekeeper, but renamed to load ahead of Gatekeeper and it still won't install. Mac IIcx, 5 megs, system 6.03, Multifinder, Appletalk hookup to printer plus Ethernet card in slot. How can I get rid of the X on bootup? Wm. Beasley aa002@cleveland.freenet.edu (Internet)
peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce) (06/16/90)
In article <1990Jun14.204645.29234@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> wab2@po.cwru.edu (Wm. Beasley) writes: > >Public folder is now in my system folder, and appears in the chooser as it >should (though no other public folders are selectable). When I reboot, >though, it's icon is x-ed out, indicating that it is NOT installing. The overwelming cause of Public Folder not installing the server part is that it can't find the folder it should publish on the network. Double check that you actually HAVE a folder named "Public" on your boot disk. If it's really there double check that there is no leading or trailing space. Also, it shouldn't be called "Public Folder", just "Public". This type of error accounts for something like 95% of all reported problems with Public Folder (the rest have to due with the problem with the CD-ROM drive). ASIDE: It sure seems to me that INIT's need some way to communicate with users other than just X-ing themselves out. I've been thinking about a mechanism where if there is a problem the user can read about it in the Chooser (or Control Panel) when they bring up the normal UI. The UI would say something like, "Couldn't find a Public Folder" or "AppleTalk is not turned on." What do people think of this idea? -- michael Claris Corp. | Michael R. Peirce -------------+-------------------------------------- | 5201 Patrick Henry Drive MS-C4 | Box 58168 | Santa Clara, CA 95051-8168 | (408) 987-7319 | AppleLink: peirce1 | Internet: peirce@claris.com | uucp: {ames,decwrl,apple,sun}!claris!peirce
minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) (06/16/90)
From article <11067@claris.com>, by peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce): | ASIDE: It sure seems to me that INIT's need some way to communicate with | users other than just X-ing themselves out. I've been thinking about a | mechanism where if there is a problem the user can read about it in the | Chooser (or Control Panel) when they bring up the normal UI. The UI | would say something like, "Couldn't find a Public Folder" or "AppleTalk | is not turned on." What do people think of this idea? I like this idea a bit, but wonder about its execution. Would we just have INITs write to a file in the sys folder called "INIT logfile" that the cdev/chooser whould read and possibly parse? Also, it would be really nice if we could get a notification mgr note saying "Some INITs are having trouble. Check ther Error Log in the Control Panel." -- | _ /| | Robert Minich | | \'o.O' | Oklahoma State University | | =(___)= | minich@d.cs.okstate.edu | | U | - Bill sez "Ackphtth" |