That's the good news the bad news is that Novell often identifies the CDs on
the network in a way in which some Mac programs find confusing. For
instance, Encarta might be named Server.Encarta rather than simply Encarta.
This confuses a number of MAC programs. After doing lots of research we've
found that most legally networkable CDs work from the tower.
One frustration, however, was that we wanted to run a single copy of
Bookshelf from one Mac in the library. We didn't want to leave the CD in the
machine for security reasons. It wouldn't run from the tower for the
aforementioned naming reasons. Now I'm ending up configuring a Performa as a
Mac server in a secure location to run this CD from (for the Net police -
for one machine only!).
The task therefore may not be quite as simple as some would have you believe.
If anyone out there does have positive experience with Mac CDS from the
aforementioned CD tower/Novell setup I would like to hear them!
Also as always please remember to pay attention to copyright - it's a
temptation to ignore it when it's so simple to run from multiple machines.
Good luck.
>I understand it is possible to add Macs to an existing network of IBM's
>running Novell. My question is this - if we add a CD tower, would the
>CD's be available for both platforms? Or would we have to buy 2 versions
>of the same CD? What about the PowerMac 6100 - since it has both processors -
>Would it be the best choice?
Darren Lewis
David Thompson Secondary School
co PO Box 429
Invermere CANADA V0A 1K0
eMAIL: dlewis@cln.etc.bc.ca * Phone: 1+604+342-9213
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