The Power Mac fix took about six hours and $300 to upgrade from
AppleShare 3 to
AppleShare 4.
The CD/Maxtet family supports a wide range of personal computer networks, including
AppleShare, NetWare, Windows NT and Windows NT Advanced Server, and Banyan's Vines.
Photographers then sent the photos to Boston on
AppleShare using a T-56 line directly into a DEC VAX at the Christian Science Publishing Society.
File sharing operates very much like
AppleShare, but it allows individual users to make a selected part of their drive available without turning the machine into a dedicated server.
Multi-user versions use a client/server architecture running on Windows NT, Novell NetWare or
Appleshare servers.
The multi-user version can be accessed by mounting the CD-ROM on a standard file server including Windows NT-Server,
AppleShare, and Novell.
Client workstations with suitable Ethernet cards must be 386 or better PCs, or Mac II models with 32-bit QuickDraw, MultiFinder,
AppleShare and Ethernet software.
To accommodate these requirements, the NASD must support a variety of networking protocols (such as NFS, NetWare, LAN Manager and
AppleShare).
AppleShare and Harris Configuration and System Management software permit creation of folders for Mac files and their storage in the Unix file system on the server's Sun platform (Sparcstation IPC with 24MB RAM, floppy disc drive, 207MB internal SCSI hard disc drive and Ethernet interface).
It utilizes barcode labels and a barcode scanner, comes with easy-to-follow manuals, and works within an
AppleShare or Novell NetWare environment.
All standard networks and fileservers are supported including
AppleShare, Windows NT Server and Novel.
And, while lacking multiuser functionality, he said
AppleShare will be built into the operating system so that anyone's volume can become accessible by others on a network.