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Throttle Shared Users With OS X — Is It Possible?
whisper_jeff writes "I work in a design studio where the production director is also the owner's son (translation = he can do no wrong). He is fond of accessing a designer's computer via filesharing and working directly on files off of the designer's computers rather than transferring the files to his computer to work on them there. In so doing, he causes the designer's computer to grind to a near-halt as the harddrive is now tasked with his open/save requests along with whatever the designer is doing. Given that there is no way he's going to change his ways (since he doesn't see anything wrong with it...), I was wondering if there was a way to throttle a user's shared access to a computer (Mac OSX 10.5.8) so that his remote working would have minimal impact on our work. Google searches have revealed nothing helpful (maybe I should Bing it... :) so I was hoping someone with more technical expertise on Slashdot could offer a suggestion."
I want to throttle just about every OSX user I've ever met.
What is this "b-ack-ups" you speak of? and a "fi-le ser-ver"? isn't it easier for everybody to just keep the most recent copy of their own work? if you need a file, you just have to wait for everyone to reply to your email saying when was the last time they edited the file and then you can look on their computer, copy the file, make your changes, and drop it right on the production server... amIright?
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte
Give a few people lag switches.
http://images.google.com/images?q=lag+switch
it is a button on a network cord that when you press it the cord stops working. If he is working on another machine and it keeps giving him network errors, he will figure out another way.
Im a gamer, not a grammer major. This post is full of spelling and grammer mistakes.
Create a link from your machine to his. Save the file local to his machine instead of yours (via the link). Share out your link to him. He'll actually be taking the long way around back to his own box.
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shoot up the place!
Good point. If only Windows had allowed users to create folders within another folder, life would have been so much easier. Local machine administration FT...W?
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
Please come work for my design studio, someone who can pull multi-terabyte file-servers out of their ass will help my budgeting issues immensely.
Insanity is the last line of defence for the master diplomat. But you have to lay the groundwork early.
Any throttling is going to be noticed by this idiot, and if his old man is shit stupid to let him do this kind of thing anyways, you can be sure you'll be getting an unfriendly knock on the door about the slow network
It sound like you have to wait until you meet him in a dark alley until you can start throttling him.
Why inconvenience yourself? Just turn off file sharing for 30 seconds, then turn it back on. Same effect for him, no interruption for you. For extra fun, you can automate this in a couple of likes of AppleScript and run it in a cron job with osascript.
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Now go run more scripts, server monkey.
but he's a server monkey WITHOUT a server!
Haven't you been paying attention?!?!?!???
"You lost your updates to the file? How? What do you mean the network stopped responding? Hmm - better check the router"
"it happened again? This isn't good - I'll virus check my Mac" *cough*
"No, we can't find the cause. Yeah, it's bugging the hell out of me too"
Sure, boss' son isn't happy, but nobody is to blame except the technology. Maybe another approach would prove more durable...
Hotdogs have meat in them???
What exactly did you expect from a guy that starts his post with "This. "
That.
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