1. You have to spare a Mac (a good one) to use it as a server.
2. Load AppleShare 4.0 on the server to support file (application)
sharing (version 2.0 does not have enough power).
3. The application program should be nerworking version (Sometimes it
is not necessary, but most times, it is, especially for Mac).
4. Network all stations with the server using Ethernet cards and cables.
If you use 10Bset-T, you need an additional hub.
Finally, you need to set up users' accounts on the server and set up file
protection. Kids like to access anything on the server and trash them.
It seems you are just using PhoneNet or LocalTalk cables to hook up Macs
together. It can only transfer files between machines and does not
support "distrinuted process" (file sharing). The speed is extremely
slow. Even you just want to share printer with such network, you may
still feel it very slow.
Bin Xie
bxiekc@cyclops.pei.edu
On Fri, 31 May 1996, Emmett Hoops <stmarys@cencom.net> wrote:
> We have two PowerMac 5230's and two LC520's networked. It
> was our hope to be able to run, say, two programs
> simultaneously. But we can't run things at the same time;
> we get a message saying "program already in use." I thought
> that was the idea of networking: that we could use two
> programs off one computer.
> Another question: Why do the programs we're running off the
> network run so slowly?