Re: Access limitations(?), and moving to a simple LAN

In article <4db7361e93alan_calder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Alan Calder <alan_calder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Nice and technical but seems a bit of a hammer/nut solution. Our
> school network machines simply had their harddisks named, being in
> the 'H' block, H1, H2 ....H26.

The drawback from that is the usual problem of any app/choices file
that stores a disk name rather than number. You'd not be able to
distribute anything containing such a name to all machines.

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