Re: ProDOS amd Mac system 8.n and above

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

you <you@somehost.somedomain> wrote:

> David Empson wrote:
> >Bart wrote:
> >> Is there a technical reason that filesharing and ProDOS are incompatable?
> >
> >The original implementation of ProDOS (as used by ProDOS-8) wouldn't be
> >compatible with AppleShare, because the server needs to write
> >Mac-specific information onto each writeable volume, including filenames
> >which exceed the ProDOS limitations.
>
> So a ProDOS would not be SHAREABLE. Ok I see that ...BUT
> why not even MOUNTABLE on a 8.n Finder?

It could be because File Sharing requires that _all_ mounted volumes
must be sharable.  If you log in as the machine owner, the sharing
privileges are ignored  and you have full access to all volumes on the
server.

This may only apply to later OS versions.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz