Re: ProDOS amd Mac system 8.n and above

[Greg Weston <gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com>]

In article <1fal2y8.qaix56150ksqoN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>, David Empson
<dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

> 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.

That's the default, but there's a switch in the owner's File Sharing
user record to turn it off. Which leads to the question of whether
turning that switch off changes the behavior.

G