RE: [WinMac] Re: iMac
Michael bartosh(bartosh[at]tamu.edu)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:42:39 -0600
> So then wouldn't all of the sudden pulling the plug on floppy disks when the
> staff rely on these disks for personal backups as well as transferring files
> home be a bit drastic?
Yes- it's up to IS to provide a better solution <see below>
> You make it sound like a solution to the problems
> with floppy disks is to remove the drive. If you do not want the students
> to use the disk drives you can either get locks for the disk drives or for
> the PC you can disable the drive in the BIOS and then password protect it, I
> have implemented both before with no problem in situations where disks from
> students are not wanted. I understand your thinking however I don't think a
> solution to problems with floppy disks is to remove the dr
I made a <simple> applescript and stuck a floppy icon on it. The user
double clicks, it gets a name and password, then mounts their home
volume from an AppleShare IP server. So if they're at home, they
double click, it dials in, and boom- there's your floppy on your
desktop. Throw it away, go to school- boom, it's there.
I don't know scripting under winXX, but can the same thing be done with samba?
-mab
--Microsoft Windows: It just keeps getting beta and beta--
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