> From:  goran.krampe at b...
>  Date:  Thu Jul 17, 2003  10:08 pm
>  Subject:  Re: nw install
>
>  "Nancy Head" <head.n at m...> wrote:
>  > Can squeak be installed on a school network (Novell) where students  
> do not
>  > have write permissions on the hard drive (Macs: 9.x or OS X)? Can  
> students
>  > save files to their own network shares?
>
>  Sure. No problem AFAICT.
>
>  > My understanding is that the plugin version cannot do this.
>
>  I am not too familiar with what you can and can't do with the plugin
>  version - but you can definitely do this with Squeak in general.  
> Squeak
>  is actually just a single executable and really don't need to be
>  "installed" in any special way, just run it.
>


Well as the fellow who wrote the VM specific code to deal with security  
in the mac  plugin I can say the default is to write to the person's  
squeak folder within the person's preferences folder. That should  
always have
write access, and technically it doesn't need to be on the physical  
machine, since it can be on the network
somewhere if you are running an os-9 or os-x setup where you have a  
macintosh server and multiple accounts, say one for each child.

I'll note that the regular installer for all this in os-9 just doesn't   
handle the idea of network shares for preferences but a hand install by  
your IT folks is workable if you have say an os-x server somewhere  
containing every ones data and people sign onto any machine to access  
their accounts.  For os-x it's a bit different since the person's home  
directory is located either on the machine or on the network at signon  
time, and it of course contains the perference folder where everything  
is written to.


PS you should ask on the squeakland mailing list, I'd suspect others  
have similar setups.
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