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>How do others handle Internet access in a public lab using the standard
>Internet tools....
>
>Eudora creates a Eudora Folder in the System Folder. I have written a script
>that opens the Eudora Settings file of a Eudora Folder located on our
>fileserver
>in place of the one in the System Folder for each user.

In the 'Eudora Q&A' Hypercard stack (available from ftp.qualcomm.com
/Eudora/mac/documentation/Eudora_QA.hqx and full of incredibly useful
information) it can help you with a number of strategies you can adopt. The
one we used back when I was an undergrad was forcing students to use a disk
for mail. If you place a *file* called Eudora Folder in the System Folder,
Eudora will look elsewhere. The fileserver approach is one I've never heard
of, but it's interesting, though unless you password protect each Folder,
access to others' email is quite easy. The big downside I've seen with
mail-based Eudora is the high frequency of disks corrupted, due to heavy
mail activity.

>Netscape also creates a Netscape folder in the Preferences Folder within
>the System Folder. This folder is by default used for the cache, preferences
>and bookmarks. Although you can open Netscape from a different Prefs file,
>the cache is then on the fileserver rather than the local hard drive.

That question is a bit harder, since I assume that you vary the local hard
drive names in your lab. If they're all called "Macintosh HD" or something
like that, you're in luck, since you can specify any folder as the Cache as
part of the Netscape Preferences. If they do vary, I can't think of any
solution. Sorry. Anybody else?

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