Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!tilley From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Anyone have any experience with K-Ashare/K-Spool? Keywords: file share and spooling Message-ID: <1991Jan28.232807.2810@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 28 Jan 91 23:28:07 GMT References: Distribution: comp.protocols.appletalk Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 26 In fausett@ra.radc.af.mil (Mark L. Fausett) writes: >I see that people have had nothing good to say about IPT's product. >Any experience with Mt Xinu's K-Share/K-Spool? >Mark Fausett >fausett@aivax.radc.af.mil They are cheap enough that we got them to try out on one of our 2 Sun4's. I wasted a week discovering known problems - they don't come with a list of such. Nor do they have an FTP archive. They do answer their mail but not that helpfully. One of our Suns has an extra ethernet card. The other an X25 card. Both contraindicated. I tried them on a dataless SparcStation (all that was left). They did not work reliably there but at least the machine would boot. I suspect trouble with Sun's buggy lock daemon over NFS. Amazing how fast 8 messages per second to a log file can fill up a file system. They may be working on a Phase II product. Anyone have any information on this? We are getting desperate for a reliable unix Phase II server. We are currently using aufs. It requires mac users to log on to unix to get started! Has anyone tried EtherShare? Does Alisa have a Sun product? Does anyone have anything good to say? All info welcome.