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Subject : Network Manager v1.19 Date : 30/11/89
Author : Stewart Brodie
{ Disclaimer - written 9/6/92
This program is copyright © Stewart Brodie. I cannot guarantee the
functionality of this program at all, except to say that I haven't had any
trouble using it back in 1989. No liability is accepted for
loss/damage/corruption caused by this program. This program may be uploaded
anywhere provided that it is kept intact and that the files within the
directory are not modified. You do not have to register this program. You
may not sell this program for profit.
** In particular, you MAY NOT include SetStation, SetFree, NetFS, Netprint,
Econet (2 utilities and 3 modules) as NO LICENCE has been sought to
distribute these Acorn modules, and I assume I would need one to do so.
These new modules and utilities are available on the RISC OS Extras Discs,
from your local dealer. **
Source code is left intact with comments, since I assume users will be
competent programmers anyway and would be able to reverse engineer any
protection. See FN_protected_user (line 7160) for how to prevent certain
users being accessed. By default, this list includes SYST only. For a
neater version of the instructions below, print the Help file (Pipedream
format). Obviously you need to be logged on as a privileged user to do all
the operations that require privilege.
Although further versions of this program were written (with a much neater
menu structure), they did not fully work and were never put into full use.
If you are desperate for some later versions, mail me at
snb90@uk.ac.soton.ecs or snb@uk.ac.soton.mail until end of June 1994.
I do not have an Econet interface, so I cannot test this program at this
time.
End of disclaimer }
1 ) Starting Network Manager
To start Network Manager double click on its icon in a directory
viewer. Errors may be given if there is no room for sprites, or for
the application to start up or if Econet is not fitted to the machine.
When loading has been accomplished, an icon will register on the right
hand end of the icon bar.
2 ) Using the Network Manager Facilites
Clicking Select or Adjust over the icon bar icon will produce the
program information window.
Click menu when the pointer is over the Network Manager fileserver icon.
A menu will then appear containing the following items :
Info - Information about the version of software you are using.
Password - Box for changing your password.
Status - Box for viewing other users' passwords.
New User - Box for creating new users, setting free space and privilege.
Remove User- Box for deleting users.
Set Free - Alter user free space.
Privilege - Alter users privilege.
FS Users - Display all currently logged on users.
Enable - Enables the multi-user commands in the previous menu section.
Ignore More- Ignore any new messages arriving if too many pending.
Printout - Flag indicating whether a printout will be produced.
Passwords - Flag indicating whether Status will display any passwords.
Protection - Has sub-menu for setting your Econet protection mask.
Set Station- Set up local station's Econet station number.
Quit - Make application exit from memory and cancel icon bar icons.
Info :
This box just contains details about the program and its author. This box
can also be displayed by clicking Select or Adjust over the Manager icon.
Password :
When you move over the arrow next to Password on the menu, a window
appears with a box for your old password, and a box for you new password.
To type in a password, click the mouse in the appropriate box, and type in
your password at the caret. You will not be allowed to type in more than 6
characters, and these characters must be in the range from number 0, to
lower case 'z'. The passwords will only be displayed as '*'s. When you are
satisfied that both passwords are correct, click on OK, and if possible,
your password will be changed. Clicking on CANCEL will close the window
and menu with no other action taken.
Status :
Note that this icon is shaded unless Enable has been previously selected.
When you move over the arrow next to Status, the User Information window
appears. In this window, you must enter the user group and user name of
the particular user. However, wildcards may be used, see below. When you
click on OK, a new window will appear, and will contain the information
about users selected. When all the information has been displayed, click
any mouse button to finish the operation.
Wildcards that can be used are # and *. # replaces 1 or no character,
whereas * represents any number of characters. Hence entering both user
group and name as '*' will result in all user information being displayed.
New User and Remove User :
Note that these icons are shaded unless Enable has been previously selected.
When you move over the arrow next to New User or Remove User, then the User
Information window will appear again. Enter information in exactly the same
way as described above (except New User cannot use wildcards). Confirmation
messages will appear in the information window during the operation. When
New User is being used, entering a value in Kilobytes in the Free Space box
will also cause that amount of free space being allocated to that particular
user, and the highlighted privilege icon will be used to assign the user
privilege to the new user with Normal being taken if no option is
highlighted.
Set Free :
Note that this icon is shaded unless Enable has been previously selected.
Allows you to enter the amount of free space available to any user -
wildcards may be used with this choice.
Privilege :
This allows you to set the privilege of a user. In the window, click over
the correct type of user and then after entering a user name, click on OK.
If no option is highlighted, then Normal will be chosen as default.
FS Users :
This will display a list of currently logged on users
Enable :
After this entry has been selected a tick will appear beside it. This
indicates that any of the multi-user options may be used - they will
no longer be shaded and unselectable.
Ignore More :
This item will be ticked when it is selected. When ticked, any messages
received from other stations when no space is left to store the message
will be ignored.
Printout :
Click on this item to toggle it. When ticked, any confirmation messages will
be sent to the printer. When this option is on, the time and date will be
printed at the bottom of the printout to aid the Network Manager with user
management.
Passwords :
Click on this item to toggle it. When ticked, Status will display any
passwords on the screen. This means that status can be used to check user
names, boot options, free space and privilege.
Protection :
Move over the arrow of this entry to display the Protection submenu.
Click over the relevant flags in the sub menu and write the value to
CMOS Ram if required by choosing Write CMOS.
Set Station :
Move over the arrow of this entry to display the set station window.
Enter the new station identity in the box, and then click on OK.
NOTE that pressing RETURN will not work, so that no accidents can occur.
Quit :
This option removes Network Manager from memory and frees that memory. Also
all notifications all cancelled from the icon bar.
3 ) Notifications over the Network
This facility allows you to store messages sent to you over the network by
other users in a safe place until you want to read them. This can be
useful especially if you are doing an important operation and do not wish
to be disturbed by Notify commands. When a message is received from
another user, then a new icon will appear on the left hand side of the
icon bar, consisting of a warning triangle and a number underneath
indication which station sent the message. Only ten messages can be stored
however, and any extra will be reported as usual, unless the Ignore More
choice on the main menu has been selected and is ticked.
To read a message, you can click on the icon with either select or adjust.
If select is used, the message is removed from the icon bar after it has
been displayed, otherwise it will remain.
Clicking on menu will produce a message menu. Choosing Read will act just
as if you had clicked Adjust over the icon. Abandon indicates that you
do not wish to read the message, just discard it. Acknowledge will send a
reply back to the sender containing the message "Message Received." . This
can only be done once, and will be shaded on the menu once it has been
done.
Note that a message can arrive at any time, and will register on the icon
bar as long as the desktop and Network Manager are both active and all
current tasks are multi-tasking.
Information can also be provided by the !Help application and !Spy
(Data Store Software).
* THE END * © Stewart Brodie 30/11/89