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- Remote Control & Server Controller (1.0)
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- Copyright (C) 1991-1993, Apple Computer, Inc.
- All Rights Reserved
- by Jim Luther, Apple Developer Technical Support
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- Remote Control and Server Controller are free software and can be distributed
- freely by individuals. For commercial distribution or bulletin board
- distribution please contact Apple Software Licensing.
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- Remote Control and Server Controller are distributed "as is" and unsupported by
- Apple or the author. Please don't call Apple or the author for technical
- support on this program.
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- ********** What's it do? **********
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- The two applications, Remote Control and Server Controller, allow the owner of
- a Macintosh to start or stop the file server running on that Macintosh using
- another Macintosh at another location on the network.
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- ********** Setup **********
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- To setup the server Macintosh:
- * Drop the Server Controller application in the System Folder's Startup Items
- folder.
- * Make sure the Macintosh Owner Name, Owner Password, and Macintosh Name of are
- set with the Sharing Setup control panel or AppleShare Admin application. *
- Make sure Program Linking is "on" with the Sharing Setup control panel. * Make
- sure Program Linking is enabled for the owner of the system with the Users &
- Groups control panel or AppleShare Admin application. * Make sure AppleTalk is
- "on" with the Chooser.
- * Reboot the system; Server Controller will be launched and if everything is
- setup correctly, you won't see any error notification dialogs.
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- To setup and use the remote Macintosh to control the server remotely: * Make
- sure Program Linking is "on" with the Sharing Setup control panel. * Make sure
- AppleTalk is "on" with the Chooser.
- * Run the Remote Control application.
- * Select "Connect to Remote Macintosh..." from the Remote menu. * Use the
- program linking and the user identity dialogs to connect to the server
- Macintosh as the server's owner (other users cannot connect). * Using Remote
- Control from here on is pretty obvious; just quit, or disconnect and quit when
- you're done.
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- ********** About Server Controller **********
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- Server Controller is a faceless background application; it has no user
- interface and won't show up in the Application menu. When it's launched, it
- first performs a few checks to make sure it can do its job; if it can't, then
- it puts up an error notification dialog describing the problem and then quits.
- If everything is set up correctly, then it opens a PPC port and goes to sleep
- until the server's owner, using the Remote Control application, connects with
- it. While the owner is connected, Server Controller sends status information
- to the Remote Control application and makes server control calls passed to it
- by Remote Control.
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- If you need to quit Server Controller, you can use ProcDoggie or Task-It (two
- other DTS sample applications), or you can drag Server Controller out of the
- Startup Items folder and reboot.
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- ********** About Remote Control **********
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- Remote Control displays status information it gets from Server Controller and
- send server control commands to Server Controller to start the server, stop the
- server, or cancel the start or stop operation. The only menu items of real
- interest are File, which lets you quit Remote Control, and Remote, which lets
- you connect to or disconnect from the Server Controller application.
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- Once a connection is made with the Server Controller application, a small
- window will appear with a single button and some status information. The
- button will either be Start, Stop, or Cancel depending on current status of the
- remote file server. The status information returned is:
- * Macintosh Name, the name of the Macintosh running Server Controller you've
- connected to.
- * Zone, the zone the Macintosh running Server Controller you've connected to is
- in. (If there are no zones, this field will be "*")
- * Status, the status of the remote file server.
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- To disconnect from the Server Controller application, you can use either the
- Remote menu or you can Quit the Remote Control application.
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- ********** Release Notes **********
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- 1.0d2 - Although this is only version 1.0d2, it is completely usable and has no
- crashing bugs that I know of. I'll be making several major internal changes to
- both applications before releasing another version, but since this version
- works and is useful, I thought I'd pass it around and get a little feedback on
- the user interface, etc.
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- Remote Control 1.0d2++ - I've fixed a few minor bugs and rebuilt the program
- with the final ServerControlIntf file.
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- Server Controller 1.0d2++ - I fixed a problem with case-insensitivity in the
- user name and rebuilt the program with the final ServerControlIntf file.
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- Remote Control 1.0 - If the PPC connection is broken, the application window is
- now closed.
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- Server Controller 1.0 - Server
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- Posted to:
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- Apple Support Area
- Apple Software Updates
- Utilities Folder
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- 4-APR-94