Re: [WinMac] FW: Cleartext NT log-ins

James Rupprecht(jimrupp[at]kuhub.cc.ukans.edu)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 14:34:34 -0500

At 04:09 PM 9/14/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Oh, one more thing: aliases to things on volumes which haven't
>been mounted yet will still use Apple Standard UAM.
>If the volume is already mounted, no
>problem. It mentions this in the Readme.
>
>When you mount a volume using MS UAM, make an alias, dismount the
>volume, and double-click the alias, the Apple Standard UAM comes up,
>not the MS UAM. In fact, I found no way to make the OS use the
>MS UAM. I even tried turning on the option on the server side
>that says "force the use of MS UAM". In this case, double-clicking
>an alias led to various errors about not being able to find
>the volume on the network.
>
>For this reason, implementing MS UAM is problematic. It depends
>on how much you emphasize security.
>

Actually, this is now "fixed". Appleshare clients starting at version 3.9
(doing this from memory, so I may be off on the ver #) now properly
recognize the MS UAM. This version shipped with MacOS 8.0, and will run on
7.5.3 and up.

James Rupprecht
Systems Specialist
Applied English Center
University of Kansas

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