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- From: GOLD@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Gold Michael)
- Subject: Installing MAC-SW on a server
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.163458.23838@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>
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- Organization: University of Ulm, Germany
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:34:58 GMT
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- Hi!
- I am in charge of maintaining a rather small network of 11 Mac II VI and a
- Quadra 960 Fileserver. As i was know it works quite well on
- Novell-Netware-Servers with DOS machines I thought it would be a good idea
- to place all software packages on the server and make them available for
- any user. We are using
-
- Aldus Persuasion 2.1 (2 Licences)
- Aldus Freehand 3.1 (2 L.)
- Microsoft Word 5 (5)
- Filemaker Pro (5)
- Statview 4 (2)
-
- What I CAN do is putting e.g. BOTH copys of Persuasion onto the server and
- then make them both accessible to the users. BUT, because the software
- checks the network for running copys of the program with identical serial
- number, it is impossible to launch the program twice (which in principle is
- absolutely o.k.), but I don't want the user to have always to check ALL
- versions of a program, before he finds one to work with.
- Distributing all packages to all workstations is no solution, because the
- identical problem arises.
- What I am thinking of is a kind of launching program, which, when called,
- checks all existing versions of a program on the fileserver weather it is
- already in use (e.g. by supressing the error message and evaluating some
- kind of return code) and then ending in starting the application program or
- in giving a message (e.g. which user(s) are working with that program).
- Have YOU had similar problems?
- What is YOUR solution?
-
- Thanks for answering,
-
- and don't miss DINNER FOR ONE !!! (Happy New Year!!)
-
- Michael Gold (gold@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de)
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