Ref: 99960005 Title: 3+ for Macintosh General-Use Release Notes Number 4664-00 Date: 06-15-88 Copyright 3Com Corporation, 1991. All rights reserved. 3+ for Macintosh version 1.3.1 Part No. 4664-00 6/15/88 General-Use Release Notes This document includes general-use release notes about the 3+ for Macintosh network. Read this information carefully before using your 3+ for Macintosh User Guide. The Release Notes are divided into these sections: General Information File System Information Application Compatibility Information IBM PC Netstation Information 3+Route and 3+NetConnect Support Switch Launching Where applicable, each note is accompanied by a manual title and page reference indicating the location of related information. Apple Computer, Inc. makes no warranties, either express or implied, regarding the enclosed computer software package, its merchantability or its fitness for any particular purpose. The exclusion of implied warranties is not permitted by some states. The above exclusion may not apply to you. This warranty provides you with specific legal rights. There may be other rights that you may have which vary from state to state. .H1;General Information .BR;Startup .BR;User Guide, p. 2-4 .BR;If your Macintosh netstation beeps during startup it indicates that 3+ for Macintosh installation has failed. The 3+ icon in the Welcome to Macintosh box will be displayed with an X through it, indicating an unsuccessful startup. When you start up your Macintosh netstation with 3+ for Macintosh, be sure not to hold down the 3 key (character key on the keyboard). Holding down this key prevents the 3+ for Macintosh system software from loading, and you will not be able to log in. .BR;Startup and the 3+ Prep File .BR;User Guide, p. 2-4 .BR;If you start up your Macintosh with 3+ for Macintosh and receive error messages that you are unsure of (for example; "name server not responding", "Could not find name in Name service", etc.), first confirm that your network connection is properly set up. If you are using someone else's startup disk or a copy of someone else's startup disk, it is likely that the 3+Prep file on that disk is causing the problem. Remove it from your System Folder, and restart your Macintosh. .BR;AppleTalk Active .BR;User Guide, p. 2-6 .BR;When using the 3+ network on AppleTalk, the Chooser must indicate that AppleTalk is Active at all times. If you click Inactive, your netstation will not be able to access the server. If this occurs, open the Chooser from the Apple menu, click the AppleTalk Active button, and restart your Macintosh. Restart your Macintosh to reestablish the link between your netstation and the server. .BR;Login and Domains .BR;User Guide, p. 2-7 .BR;If a large number of domains exist on your network, not all of them will be displayed in the domain menu in the Login box. To log in as a user in a domain that is not displayed, enter your user name and domain in the Name box using a colon to separate them. For example, Jeff Mason:HQ. .BR;Switching Between AppleTalk and Ethernet Cabling .BR;User Guide, p. 2-7 .BR;To switch between using AppleTalk and Ethernet cabling, always log out before changing the Control Panel setting. Then restart your Macintosh netstation. Do not change the Control Panel network setting without restarting your netstation if you are using 3+ for Macintosh. Switching from Builtin (AppleTalk) to EtherTalk while still logged in causes any 3+ connections to return a "Server not responding" error message. If you switch without logging out, you may not be able to link to your Home Folder or other private Shared Folders. Contact your network administrator to unlink you from all servers to which you may have been connected. .BR;Logging In With 3+Admin .BR;User Guide, p. 2-8 .BR;You are now allowed to log in after opening the 3+Admin application If you are not logged in when you open 3+ Admin, the Login dialog box is displayed to allow you to log in. Clicking the Cancel button returns you to the Finder. .BR;Creating or Changing the Startup Configuration .BR;User Guide, p. 2-18 .BR;To create or change the startup configuration, open the Chooser, log into the network, link to the desired Shared Folders or printers, click Status in the 3+ Network Window, click Save as Startup, and click OK. To delete the startup configuration, open the System Folder and drag the 3+ Prep file into the trash can. To disable 3+ Prep when restarting your Macintosh, simply hold the mouse button down after Welcome to Macintosh is displayed. .BR;Shutting Down Your Macintosh .BR;User Guide, p. 2-23 .BR;Choose Shutdown before turning off your Macintosh netstation. The recommended procedure is to save your latest work, quit your application, and choose Shutdown or Restart from the Special menu in the Finder. Shutdown unlinks all network objects, logs you out of the network, and ejects any diskettes in the netstation drives. .BR;Using 3+Print .BR;User Guide, p. 3-1 .BR;When you hold down the Option key when selecting 3+Print from the Chooser, only the currently linked printer will be displayed within the Chooser list. This happens almost immediately, removing the delay which can otherwise occur while the 3+ for Macintosh software polls all of the servers in the user's domain for printers. .BR;Rebuilding the Desktop on a Shared Folder .BR;User Guide 4-1 .BR;If for any reason you decide to rebuild your desktop on a network Shared Folder (by holding down the Command and Option keys when starting up or returning to the Finder), do so from the Home Folder level or another first level shared directory (such as 3Plus or APPS if shared by the server-user). .BR;Write/Create Shared Folders .BR;User Guide 4-14 .BR;Macintosh netstation users linked to Shared Folders with Write/Create access rights can copy files to the Shared Folder, but not see them. IBM PC or compatible netstation users can use the DIR command to see the names of all files in a directory with Write/Create access rights, but cannot read them. .BR;Keyboard Equivalents .BR;For 3+ for Macintosh version 1.2.1, the keyboard equivalents are as follows: .BR;3+ Network Window .BR;Status Command-S .BR;Options Command-O .BR;Getinfo Command-G .BR;Up a level Command-Up Arrow .BR;Down a level Command-Down Arrow .BR;Status Dialog .BR;Save as startup Command-S .BR;Getinfo User/Server/Shared Folder in 3+File .BR;New password Command-N .BR;Delete password Command-D (functional only in Getinfo User and Server) .BR;User Guide Appendix A .BR;The message "server:domain:organization" is not responding. Retrying... indicates that the server is not responding to requests. 3+ will continue trying to establish communication with the server unless you cancel by pressing Command-. (period). Cancelling the operation breaks all connections to the indicated 3+Share server. If you cancel, restart your Macintosh and log in before continuing work. NOTE: Wait at least one full minute before pressing Command-. (period). .H1;File System Information .BR;User Guide 4-7 .BR;A Macintosh user will be unable to create or move a folder into another folder if the full pathname of any folder or file exceeds a 92 character pathname limit. This still permits a fairly deep folder environment (approximately 9 levels deep with large folder names). If shorter names are used, still greater depth is possible (subsequent renaming may be prevented if the 92 character pathname limit is exceeded). Attempting to exceed this limit results in the Finder displaying messages indicating a disk error or an unknown error. If you share directories that are deep within an existing folder hierarchy, the maximum depth of any newly Shared Folder is restricted because of the pathname length limit (pathnames from the root directory). .BR;User Guide, p. 4-13 .BR;Shared Folders, or folders that contain Shared Folders, should not be renamed or moved. Users linking to a Shared Folder that has been renamed or moved will be unable to access the files and may receive an error message. If you want to change the name of a Shared Folder, unshare the folder first, then reshare it with a new name. If you want to move a Shared Folder to another location, unshare it first, move the folder, then reshare it. A folder can be assigned more than one Shared Folder name. It is not advisable, however, for a user to link through two different Shared Folder names to the same folder. Doing so may lead to the accidental deletion of files. Both Shared Folder names actually represent the same information on the server's disk. When attempting to copy a file from one to the other, data will be lost. The Finder will present a message asking if the user wants to replace the existing file in the destination folder with the new one. Since these two files are actually one with the same name, the Finder is trying to replace that file with itself. When the user clicks Yes, the Finder deletes the file from the destination folder before it attempts to copy the file from the source folder. As a result the file is mistakenly deleted before it can be copied, and its data will be lost. .H1;Application Compatibility Information .BR;WriteNow .BR;Version 1.0 of WriteNow will not work reliably when opened in a 3+ Shared Folder. Use a later version. .BR;ResEdit .BR;User Guide, p.1-6 .BR;The developer's tool ResEdit (version 1.0) is limited to work only on files in the root level (the window that opens when you double-click on the Shared Folder icon on the desktop) of 3+ Shared Folders. To use ResEdit on a file outside of the root level, first move the file to the root level. .BR;AppleShare and 3+ for Macintosh .BR;User Guide, p. 2-16 .BR;To use AppleShare and 3+ for Macintosh from the same diskette or hard disk, start with an AppleShare boot diskette (because AppleShare modifies the System file). Copy 3+ File, 3+ Print, and 3+ Icon Giver from the System Folder of your 3+Share User for Macintosh diskette to the System Folder of your AppleShare diskette. .BR;Cricket Draw .BR;User Guide, p. 3-2 .BR;To print using the Cricket Draw application version 1.0, you must rename the 3+ Print file in your System Folder to LaserWriter. Cricket Draw 1.0 only sends files in a PostScript format when the 3+ Print file is named LaserWriter. Renaming 3+ Print will not affect any other 3+ for Macintosh network operations. The Chooser will still show the 3+ Print icon, but it will be named LaserWriter. .BR;PageMaker .BR;PageMaker version 3.0 cannot be installed directly onto the network. To install version 3.0, you must first install onto a local hard disk. Then log into the network, link to a Shared Folder, and copy the PageMaker files from the hard disk to the network. For further information, contact your network reseller for information on updates to the PageMaker software. .BR;User Guide, p. 3-6 .BR;When printing from PageMaker version 2.0 or 3.0, you must use the Apple LaserWriter driver or download Aldus Prep temporarily. Permanently downloading the Aldus Prep file causes the LaserWriter to run out of memory very quickly. To download Aldus Prep temporarily, open the PageMaker Print dialog box, hold down the Option key, and click Print. Click the Make Aldus Prep permanent checkbox to remove the X. Then send the document to be printed. For complete information on this PageMaker option, see "Using PostScript Options" in your PageMaker manual. Only PageMaker versions 2.0 and later are supported in 3+ for Macintosh. .BR;MacWrite .BR;User Guide, pps. 4-18, 4-19 .BR;Only MacWrite version 4.6 or later is supported. Using XCOPY or any other DOS copy/move utility programs to copy or move Macintosh files and directories is not supported in 3+ for Macintosh 1.2.1 and WILL NOT work correctly. DOS utilities programs cannot properly accommodate the MacFS support information that is associated with these files or folders. Users or network administrators must use the Finder on the Macintosh for copying or moving Macintosh files and directories. .H1;IBM PC Netstation Information .BR;User Guide, Appendix D .BR;Because of the way pathnames to server directories and files are managed in Share (DOS), there is a limitation on the depth of a folder hierarchy in terms of a maximum DOS pathname length. The current limit is set at 92 characters and includes the drive ID ("c:\x\y" is 6 characters long). Folders created on a Macintosh that have names that are not legal DOS names will always have DOS names 8 characters in length or less. .BR;User Guide, Appendix D .BR;Renaming folders is not permitted if the length of any folder or file pathname will result in a violation of the 92 character pathname limit. IBM PC and compatible netstations users should know that the file/folder name length of the DOS directory listing being displayed as 0 (zero) is valid for applications and some types of documents when doing a DIR listing. The DOS DIR directory comm and can display the file/folder name length as 0 (zero), but users should be cautioned against deleting this file without first using the MACDIR command. This is due to the differences between the DOS and the Macintosh File Systems. A zero length file may be an empty data fork for a Macintosh file. Use the MACDIR command to verify the full file/folder name. MACDIR will display a directory somewhat similar to a DOS directory listing, but with Macintosh file system information added. The full name of the file/folder within the Macintosh file system can consist of up to 31 characters, some of which are illegal in DOS names, such as spaces. File naming, therefore, will not necessarily look the same. If you are unsure about the status of a file seen in a DOS DIR listing, use the MACDIR listing before deleting anything. .H1;3+Route and 3+NetConnect Support In this release, Macintosh netstations are not able to use 3+Route to access Shared Folders and printers on remote servers via modem and telephone line connections. IBM PC and compatible users can to use 3+Route to send and receive messages with 3+Mail. Full 3+Route support for Macintosh netstation users will be included in a future release. .H1;Switch Launching This section briefly describes switch launching. Switch launching allows you to switch from using the System Folder on your Startup diskette to using a System Folder in another location. This release of 3+ for Macintosh provides a way to automatically switch launch to your network Home Folder when you start up your Macintosh netstation, and at that time eject your Startup diskette. One advantage of switch launching, either manually or automatically, is that once your Startup diskette is ejected you can insert other diskettes without constantly having to swap back and forth. Another advantage is the ability to add any desired fonts or desk accessories to your System file. Since you can have a System Folder on the network server, you do not have to worry about available space on an 800K diskette. NOTE: You can only switch launch to your Home Folder. Switch launching to other Shared Folders is not permitted. This prevents two users from switching to the same System Folder. Make sure that the latest versions of 3+ for Macintosh and Apple system software are present in the Home Folder's System Folder. When you try to print after switch launching, for example, you will get an error message if you do not have 3+Print in the Home Folder's System Folder. 1. Start up your Macintosh netstation using your 3+ for Macintosh Startup diskette. 2. Log in and link to your Home Folder and any other Shared Folders or printers desired. 3. Copy the System Folder from your 3+ for Macintosh Startup diskette into your Home Folder. 4. Switch launch to your Home Folder. You can switch launch using any one of these methods: Open any application resident in your Home Folder. Hold down both the Command and Option keys and double click on either the Finder or MultiFinder in your Home Folder's System Folder. Use NetSwitch or NetSwitch MF as described in the following sections. NOTE: Make sure your Startup diskette is not set to use MultiFinder. Apple System software does not support switch launching to another diskette or folder if you are currently using MultiFinder. When you switch launch you can use MultiFinder from your Home Folder, but you must still set the Startup diskette to use Finder at startup. .BR;NetSwitch .BR;NetSwitch is a utility that allows automatic switch launching to your Home Folder each time you start up your Macintosh netstation. The advantage of using this utility is the elimination of confusion about which System file you are using. NetSwitch opens the Finder on the network. If you want to use MultiFinder, refer to the NetSwitch MF section. If you do not have the NetSwitch application on your diskette, contact your network administrator. 1. Start up your Macintosh netstation using your 3+ for Macintosh Startup diskette. 2. Log in and link to your Home Folder and any other Shared Folders or printers desired. 3. Using the 3+ Network Window, save your startup settings from the Status dialog box to create a 3+Prep file on your Startup diskette. 4. Make sure you have a System Folder in your Home Folder. Copy the System Folder from your Startup diskette, if necessary. 5. From the Finder, click on the NetSwitch icon. 6. Choose Set Startup... from the Special Menu. 7. Select Finder at the top of the dialog box; select NetSwitch from the bottom of the dialog box; click OK. CAUTION: At the top of the dialog box, be sure to select Finder, not MultiFinder, and at the bottom of the box, select NetSwitch. 8. Restart your Macintosh netstation. You are automatically switch launched to the Finder on the network, and your Startup diskette is ejected. NOTE: If you attempt to log out or unlink the Home Folder after switch launching to it, a message appears indicating you should shut down or switch launch to another diskette before taking this action. The Save Startup check box in the Status dialog box is disabled after switch launching. If you want to change your Startup configuration, refer to "Changing Startup Settings after Switch Launching" later in this section. .BR;NetSwitch MF .BR;NetSwitch MF operates the same way as NetSwitch, except that it automatically runs MultiFinder instead of Finder from your Home Folder. The MF in NetSwitch MF stands for MultiFinder. 1. Perform steps 1 through 4 from the previous section. 2. From the Finder, click on the NetSwitch MF icon. 3. Choose Set Startup... from the Special menu. 4. Select Finder at the top of the dialog box; select NetSwitch MF from the bottom of the dialog box; click OK. CAUTION: At the top of the dialog box, be sure to select Finder, not MultiFinder, and at the bottom of the box, select NetSwitch MF. NOTE: If you attempt to log out or unlink the Home Folder after switch launching it, a message appears indicating that you should shut down or switch launch to another diskette before taking this action. The Save Startup check box in the Status dialog box is disabled after switch launching. If you want to change your Startup configuration, refer to "Changing Startup Settings after Switch Launching" on the next page. Changing Startup Settings after Switch Launching You can change your default 3+ for Macintosh startup settings when using NetSwitch or NetSwitch MF. To change your current 3+ for Macintosh startup settings: 1. Start up your Macintosh using your 3+ for Macintosh Startup diskette. If you followed the switch launch procedures in the previous section, you are automatically switch launched and the Startup diskette is ejected. 2. Insert the Startup diskette into the disk drive. If you did not use NetSwitch or NetSwitch MF, the Startup diskette will still be in the drive. 3. From the Finder, click on the Startup diskette icon. 4. Choose Set Startup... from the Special menu. 5. Select Finder at the top of the dialog box; select Finder Only from the bottom of the dialog box; click OK. CAUTION: At the top of the dialog box, be sure to select Finder, not MultiFinder, and at the bottom of the box, select Finder Only. 6. Restart your Macintosh netstation. 7. Select Chooser from the Apple menu. 8. Click 3+File. If you are already logged in, click Network. If not, log in and link to your Home Folder and any other Shared Folders or printers desired. NOTE: If you unlink your Home Folder, you will note be able to switch launch. 8. Using the 3+ Network Window, save your startup settings from the Status dialog box to create a 3+Prep file on your Startup diskette. 9. From the Finder, click the NetSwitch (or NetSwitchMF) icon. 10. Select Set Startup... from the Special menu. 11. Select Finder at the top of the dialog box; select NetSwitch from the bottom of the dialog box; click OK. CAUTION: At the top of the dialog box, be sure to select Finder, not MultiFinder, and at the bottom of the box, select NetSwitch (or NetSwitch MF). Every time you start your Macintosh netstation, the 3+ for Macintosh Startup settings saved in this procedure are in effect.