minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) (09/27/90)
by clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson): | alexis@panix.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes: |>As far as I know, the assertion that AppleShare can prevent an |>application from being copied is bogus. (The implication was that |>the app could still be launched. Of course, AppleShare can hide an |>app completely so it can be neither copied nor used.) | | From the AppleShare 2.0 Administrator's Guide: | | Using AppleShare Admin, you can copy-protect a file so it can't be | copied or duplicated in the Finder at a Macintosh workstation. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | (AppleShare's copy-protection feature may have no effect on files | being used at Apple II or PC workstations.) [...] | | I don't know for sure if DiskTop or similar utilities are foiled by this | copy-protection scheme or not. I don't use this system at the lab; instead | we use LaunchBreak, so if a felonious user copies MS Word and takes it home, | the copy they get is useless outside of the lab. AppleShare cooperates with the Finder which will refuse to copy a "protected" application. A program can still READ the app and write out its own copy. Judging from the dopcumentation to LaunchBreak, it is probably the best way to control this sort of thing. I believe it is free the educational sites and others have to pay. The nice part is you can copy things all day long but as soon as you get off the network (home) it doesn't do diddly. Good stuff as long as the network is up! -- |_ /| | Robert Minich | |\'o.O' | Oklahoma State University| A fanatic is one who sticks to |=(___)= | minich@d.cs.okstate.edu | his guns -- whether they are | U | - Ackphtth | loaded or not.