Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!tom From: tom@cs.mu.oz.au (Tom Evans) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Anyone have any experience with K-Ashare/K-Spool? Keywords: file share and spooling Message-ID: <3135@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> Date: 29 Jan 91 13:08:25 GMT References: <1991Jan28.232807.2810@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Distribution: comp.protocols.appletalk Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia Lines: 25 }%o_LJljW!UJ In article <1991Jan28.232807.2810@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) writes: > > 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! Huh? It has exactly the same Mac user interface as Apple's AppleShare has. You have to "log on" to the server (with name and password) for both of them. You can be a "guest" on both. On both you can have the Mac commit the crime of "remembering" the name and password (and default mounted volumes) so they come up automatically when you (or anyone else who wants to play with your files :-) switches on your Mac. If you mean that the Mac user has to be given an account/password on the Unix system, then AppleShare requires the same procedure on its server. If you don't want this, then a "group" account can always be created that everyone logs in to, with the usual tradeoffs between an easy life and a secure life... It is also a perfectly good, totally PHASE 2 compatible server. Tom Evans, tom@wcc.oz.au Webster Computer Corporation, Australia.