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From: matthew@ooc.uva.nl (Matthew Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Appleshare on Unix server
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Date: 20 Sep 90 13:18:47 GMT
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murphy@excalibur.cs.unc.edu (Ransom Murphy) writes:

>The following software supports some kind of
>Appleshare on Unix server:

>Alisa Share	Alisa Systems	818-792-9474
>GatorShare	Cayman Systems	???
>KA-Share	Mt. Xinu	415-644-0146
>uShare		Info.Pres.Tech.	818-342-7791
>PacerShare	Pacer Software	508-898-3300

>Any info anyone has on these would be appreciated.

You left one out.  Last week I saw a product called EtherShare, from a German
company called Helios.  Ine second, let me look for their address...

	Helios Software GmbH
	Lavestrasse 80
	D-3000 Hannover 1
	Federal Republic of Germany (or just Germany :-)
	Telephone: +49 511 36 81 093
	Fax:	   +49 511 36 81 095

the (+) means whatever your international access number is (011 for the
States).

It is a complete AppleShare implementation for Unix.  It runs rhight now
definitely on DEC under (I think) Ultrix, on Suns under Sun OS 4.1, and they
are working on (among others) the IBM RS/6000.

This is a nice package.  The administrative frontend looks remarkably like
AppleShare Admin.  It works directly on the /etc/group and /etc/passwd file,
so you have to be root to run it.  It maintains a separate password file as
well, with the AppleShare format encryption.  Users can change their own
passwords, which changes both the AppleSHare pw file and /etc/passwd.

Printers can be set up within the admin program as well.  It makes the
appropriate entries in /etc/printcap, creates the spool directories,
everything.  It supports spooling to LocalTalk or serial, as well as a TCP
option which I do not know any more about.  Ask me ina month, after we test
it on site.  

It talks Ethertalk directly.  Further info to come after we test it here.
But the admin program is definitely a step inthe right direction.  I
understand that the AlisaShare people saw it, and went back to write one of
their own just like it.

Matthew Lewis
Sys Admin, CICT/OOC
Univ. of Amsterdam
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