Re: ProDOS amd Mac system 8.n and above

[Greg Buchner <nobody@mn.rr.com>]

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

> 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.

Very much true...

> This may only apply to later OS versions.

Also true...what some of us want to know is: Why?  It just had to be an 
Apple issue.

Currently the older Mac OS I'm running on any machine is 8.1.  It was 
really annoying during one upgrade, (I don't remember exactly which one) 
that you could no longer stick Apple II floppies in a Mac that had file 
sharing on.  

You know, I just thought of something.  Most likely all of the code for 
doing that was 68K and in the move to PPC in later OSes (where they were 
dropping a lot of 68K code) they just didn't bother to program it in.  
Of course that doesn't explain 8.1 which runs on a 68040 but still won't 
do II floppies and file sharing at the same time.

Greg B.
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