urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) (05/04/90)
In comp.sys.mac.comm, article <6454@umd5.umd.edu>,
zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) writes:
<
< The server NEEDS the desktop manager, a recent posting, quoted below,
< suggests it can be fetched from the apple.com anonymous ftp host.
< Contrary to (what I parsed from) the document, a pre-2.0 Appleshare client
< is NOT required. I'm using one from the 6.0.3 installation disk, and will
< probably migrate both client and server up to 6.0.5 Real Soon Now.
<
Sorry about these ambiguousities in the documentation. They'll be fixed.
Re the AppleShare 2.0 stuff, what I meant was that the 2.0 protocol extensions
are not supported. Apple's client can in fact talk to servers running the
older protocol version without problems.
<
< There have been some somewhat anomalous results, though. In at least one
< case it looked like a filename change done on the client was not visible to
< the finder on the server until after the client dismounted the volume.
< In another case a By Size view of a file did not change from 0 to the written
< length after a window write until the finder window was closed and reopened.
<
This is not a SingleShare problem. The Finder just thinks it doesn't need to
look at the folder again right now. In a client/server environment, its
guesses are sometimes wrong.
< I've only had about a half hour experience with this configuration, so I have
< not completely characterized these problems nor decided if they are real or
< just an artifact of Single-Share to Finder to MPW communications being subtly
< different in a desktop manager mode than the corresponding communication in
< a normal desktop file mode.
<
One other problem:
The MultiFinder from 6.0.5 isn't supported yet. The reason is that I am
mucking about with some of its globals (otherwise MultiFinder would close the
files which SingleShare opened behind another application's back as soon as
that application quits), and the layout changed again.
I'll also implement some fixes which should make it reasonably OK to run
SingleShare without the Desktop Manager if you can't get it from anywhere.
These fixes are also required if you decide to publish a CD-ROM without the
special Desktop Manager files on it, otherwise I wouldn't bother. :-)
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Matthias Urlichs