On Tue, 14 Mar 1995 14:31:56 PST Brett Walker (408)256-0265 Fax: said:
>Its true, ALL-LOCAL is not supported on the Mac.  I have had trouble
>implementing it correctly.  There are bits I can check to see if a
>drive is ejectable (which covers CD-ROM and floppy) but some soft
>partitioning software (in particular Norton Partition) mark their
>partitions as ejectable.  Therefore those valid local volumes would
>not get inlcuded in the domain.  There are other things to check, but
>none of them really solve the problem.
>I know this is a problem.  I'm willing to go with the consensus.  I can
>either check if the volume is ejectable and live with the soft partition
>exposure, or I can include everything in the domain, or do nothing.
>Thoughts?

Well, we have a few people using Norton and I still want option
1, if it's ejectable ignore it.  The majority of our users don't
use Norton and it's not worth the problem of having to worry about
them relabeling a drive.  This has caused me a couple of problems
already.  Recep/Sec/Office Managers who just change the name of
their hard drive but, the Norton users are the more knowing users
here and if they re-partition they're smart enough to edit their
ADSM Preferences file and change the DOMAIN statement.

The much greater majority of Macs in the world are not running
partitioning software, why make all of us pay the price of just
the people running Norton etc...we all have to do the DOMAIN
shuffle now and it makes the Mac the oddball for consistancy
with all the other clients by having to manually code the DOMAIN
statement.  I'm really greatly in favor of all the clients being
as nearly similar as possible, the fewer the number of exceptions,
the better the product is in my opinion.

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Keith A. Crabb         Keith AT UH DOT EDU
Keith A. Crabb         Keith AT UH DOT EDU
University of Houston  Operating Systems Specialist +1-713-743-1530