NetWare 4.1/9000 Concepts

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Figure 1-12 Parent directory for applications
• Create a parent directory for applications in SYS:PUBLIC.
Because users generally have Read and File Scan rights in SYS:PUBLIC, you
don’t make trustee assignments or map a search drive. However, users can see
and use all applications and know they exist.
Use this directory structure only if you want all users to have access to all
applications. The following figure shows this type of directory structure.
Figure 1-13 Application directory in SYS:PUBLIC
Installing applications in SYS:PUBLIC is not recommended (unless you create a
subdirectory for each application).
Upgrading a network is made more complicated by mixing NetWare utilities
with application program files.
An application file might have the same filename as a NetWare utility file or
another application’s program file. If so, one file overwrites the other, because
two files with the same filename can’t coexist in a directory.
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