Hi Bakul, You can get FileGuard from MacConnection or directly from www.asdsoft.com <http://www.asdsoft.com> but a few words of advice. The fileguard manual is somewhat confusing in a number of regards. It takes you through in a step by step fashion configuring fileguard without explaining carefully enough in My opinion that much of the protection afforded is redundant. If you follow the manual as written you will undoubtedly end up Believing that applications should be protected at multiple levels, at the folder level, at the application level, and in an authorized/unauthorized Listing, when in actuality each device is really as effective as any other. You will at least come to believe that there must be one way You SHOULD go when in fact there really isn't. Secondly, the manual makes two emphatic statements of procedures you MUST do which in my opinion you should avoid altogether. The manual states that you should Unauthorize all your software initially and then separately choose what to Authorize, i.e. what Applications users can use. This is a mistake on BD run equipment. It quickly becomes a nightmare trying to figure out what you should Have left Authorized in order to get the equipment and Cellquest to run properly. I suggest strongly you first authorize all software and Then choose to unauthorize one piece of software at a time, making sure everything continues to work as you go. Remember as you Set up this list that you must configure each users profile to disallow the 'use any software' check in their options profile because this Overrides the Authorized/Unauthorized listing - something which is not clearly explained in the manual. Lastly and most important, the manual states from the outset that you must protect your 'volume', i.e. your hard drive. God help you! DON'T. If you do this pray every day you wake you don't forget the password because if you do you can literally take your harddrive And throw it in the trash if it ever becomes corrupted. Earlier versions of Fileguard came with an emergency remove disk, I guess it's Now included on the CD but you still must remember the password you used to set volume protection. I can't tell you the number of times a user here had trouble booting the instrument and attempted to solve the problem by running a Disk repair utility only to completely trash the hard drive because Fileguard thought there was an illegal attempt to remove it. There is NO reason to set volume protection!!! How many users in your facility are going to try to sideswipe FileGuard by reloading The operating system from scratch, then reloading the BDPAC and Cellquest and getting everything to work together just so they Can get around paying for a couple of hours of machine usage?? And one last thought that comes to mind, configure FileGuard to allow all extensions to load before it does. Down the road your Mac will boot much smoother with the BDPAC. Gene Pizzo http://flowcytometry.uchc.edu <http://flowcytometry.uchc.edu> -----Original Message----- From: Bakul Dalal (Dr.) [SMTP:bdalal@vanhosp.bc.ca] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 10:34 AM To: Cytometry Mailing List Subject: Re: user login software for the mac Where do you get the Fileguard? Many thakns. Bakul Dalal >>> Larry Arnold <lwarma@med.unc.edu> 11/22/00 17:43 PM >>> Joseph We use FileGuard - very easy to use especially if you just want log/tracking control. If you want to use it to control access to drives/files can be more of a problem if you also have B-D's tube loader. With the tube loader you can not use a protected destination for the worklist manager files. Larry At 03:52 PM 11/20/2000 +0000, you wrote: >hello flow`ers, > >my institute recently acquired a new becton dickinson LSR flow >cytometer. since many people will be using it, i would like to be able >to control/track usage by way of some sort of login software. what >macintosh program is the best to use? > >thanks for you suggestions, > >joseph marini Larry W. Arnold, Ph.D. Res. Assoc. Prof. Director, Flow Cytometry Facility Department of Microbiology and Immunology Lineberger Comprehensive CAncer Center CB# 7290 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Phone: 919-966-1530 FAX: 919-962-8103
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