Re: Let's Talk on AppleTalk-AppleShare

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <2trpsq$b8e@nyx10.cs.du.edu>,
Chris Deschu <cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:

>Actually, I set up all my drives as public sharing access, because I
>usually log in as guest, so I can use easymount aliases without a
>password. It must be nice to have so much memory, my mac plus only
>has 4mb total, so I can forget about any ramdisk, much less 4mb.
>Thank god for fast hard drives and scsi drivers :)

I keep my Appleshare username and the sharing setup set up with no password.
Then I log on as the owner of my Mac or as admin on my server w/o a password.

I also have a 4 mb Plus on hand which I'll be using as a full time server 
running Appleshare 3.0 when I have the $ to put a server-sized hard disk
on it. All I have to use with it now is a 105 mb which has like 15 mb free
so it's not so useful at the moment. It's handy for booting my spare IIgs which
doesn't have a hard disk though. Takes about seven minutes to boot from the 
server on the Plus.

>	On a totally unrelated question, normally, when you open
>an easymount server alias, it opens the window right away. I had
>discovered that if you hold down the control key when you open it,
>it would just mount the server, without opening the window. I just
>reinstalled my system from scratch on a different HD, and now that
>feature doesn't work, the windows always open. Any ideas? Thanks!

I've never used easyopen. I know that Appleshare lets you save your username
and password so you can automount server volumes so they are on the desktop
without having to log on or anything. I'm mighty sure you can do it with file
sharing too but I don't automount since it makes the IIgs sit there and look
for the server until it times out if I have the IIgs on but don't have the
Mac on.
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