Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!linac!fnal.fnal.gov!yossie From: yossie@fnal.fnal.gov (Yossie Silverman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Networking two Macintoshes: what do I need? Message-ID: Date: 17 Jan 91 23:41:53 GMT Sender: usenet@linac.fnal.gov Organization: Fermilab Lines: 31 References:<19076@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1991Jan17.222344.8000@midway.uchicago.edu> Check out DataClub. THis is one hell of a product. We had it for evaluation purposes for a few weeks and I must say that I was amazed. DataClub can run on one or more mac's in a given zone. Free disk space on all the mac's that it is running on becomes part of a "virtual disk". Files are stored on the disk with the most memory, usually, but there are controls to determine where the files goes, or not, and to move it once it is there. Full Appleshare is implemented including all security features. Administration is a breeze. Nodes that aren't running DataClub can still mount the DataClub volume with standard AppleShare client. If you turn off your machine, all that happens is that the files on YOUR machine are not accessible (grayed out when looked at). Adding a new machine is as simple as installing DataClub on it and booting. Zone's can be joined via a gateway mechanism. Admin can access all files, and so backuping a whole slew of mac's is REAL simple! The configuration I settled on was that each person had his/her disk defined to be self-store only (I.e. only the mac in question could store on it's own disk), and not allow anyone else to store on anything but their own disk. What this built was a situation where anyone could access anyone else's files, but their own files would still be on THEIR machine. MacWeek had a raving review of this software this week. Give it a look. - Yossie --- yossie@fnal.fnal.gov; yossie@fnccf.bitnet What did the Caspian Sea? - Saki