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- From: marcelo@deadzone.princeton.edu (Marcelo Gallardo)
- Subject: Re: AUX and Appletalk file sharing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.202113.23998@deadzone.princeton.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:21:13 GMT
- References: <1hokmeINN4ed@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1341@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In <1341@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
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- >cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss) writes:
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-
- >>I have a question regarding AUX and Filesharing on non AUX Macs.
- >>It seems that as long as somebody is logged in at the console of
- >>the machine running AUX, they can publish folders which other MAcs
- >>can mount using the File Server under Chooser.
-
- >>My question is: Is there any way to *leave* things published?
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- >FileSharing is a MacOS "utility" and so, for A/UX to provide for it,
- >the MacOS environment must be running. Now the MacOS "running" during
- >the Login screen is a _very_ minimal one. This is due to the fact that
- >it's sole existance is to "run" the Login program. It's also very
- >concerned about security (that's why you can't access Control Panels
- >and the like). So, you can't run FileSharing under the Login program
- >(nor could you run it in the straight Console mode or X11)...
-
- But you could grab the sources for CAP, and run an AppleShare
- Server under A/UX so that nobody has to be logged in to access
- the files. It may be overkill for what you want/need, but it
- will do the job.
-
- Marcelo -
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