Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!psych
From: psych@watserv1.waterloo.edu (R. Crispin - Psychology)
Subject: Re: fonts used by network shared applications - any good solutions?
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.170117.7459@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <MAJUMDAR.91Feb12143455@garnet.cs.yale.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 1991 17:01:17 GMT
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In article <MAJUMDAR.91Feb12143455@garnet.cs.yale.edu> aloke_majumdar.cis@yccatsmtp.ycc.yale.ed writes:
>
>	In my few months of exposure to Appleshare networks, I have been
>encountering one particular problem in numerous forms, viz. how to maintain
>font consistency in an application that's on a shared fileserver. I wonder if
>anyone has found good ways to solve this problem. I'm not a regular reader of
>this newsgroup, so...

    Much stuff deleted...

Sorry for the followup. Reply bounced my response back to me.

I had the same problem with our office network. We are using MacJanet rather
than AppleShare but the solution should work with AppleShare. We purchased
Suitcase for each Mac. I put a copy of all the fonts and DAs that we use
on a read only volume on the server. Each user gets attached to this 
volume automatically when they log on. Suitcase is then configured to 
open these in shared mode at startup. Non of our machines have their
own Hard disks and so once they have logged on the users switch launch
a finder on their network volume. If users have a harddisk of their own
this method will still work but the users will have to actually do the
access each time the machine is restarted. 

Richard Crispin              Phone:    (519)888-4781
Dept. of Psychology          EMail:    psych@watdcs.uwaterloo.ca 
University of Waterloo                 psych@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca 
Waterloo, Ont.   Canada   N2L 3G1

