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From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Looking for AFP Server
Message-ID: <1990Dec2.233523.18072@panix.uucp>
Date: 2 Dec 90 23:35:23 GMT
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Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY
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The two good ones are allShare and DataClub.

allShare is very inexpensive, and very stable. It supports AFP, including byte-
range locking (for databases and the like), and mounts through the standard
Apple Chooser client software. Very little in the way of privileges. It uses
a small amount of memory on the host. The latest version runs under A/UX
(at last!).

DataClub is a high-end AppleShare replacement. Very stable, does everything
that AppleShare does, and much more- it's a true distributed file system. Way
cool, and probably my favorite software of the year (except A/UX, maybe).

Both of these packages run at about 65-70% of AppleShare's speed, and both
have a marginal effect on local operations. But DataClub's got a net advantage
over AppleShare, since you can generally arrange things so that the most
commonly used files on the server actually reside _on your machine_, even
though you access them through the server.

See my review of servers in MacWeek (August 14), and of DataClub (Macweek,
sometime around Christmas).

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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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