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From: mst@ms.secs.csun.edu (Mike Temkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Is there a Mac->NFS solution other than a GatorBox?
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.074856.19611@csun.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 91 07:48:56 GMT
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In article <155@pacvax.UUCP> matt@pacvax.UUCP (Matt Kingman) writes:
>In article <1991Feb5.223218.10341@athena.mit.edu> boogles@athena.mit.edu 
>(Brian K Zuzga) writes:
>>         We have been using a Cayman GatorBox to mount an NFS
>> filesystem (running on a MicroVAX via Ethernet) as an AppleShare
>> volume.  The throughput of the GatorBox is unacceptable, and we
>> are looking for an alternate solution.  Anything that allows us
>> to mount a filesystem from a Unix machine will be useful.
>
>Pacer Software has AppleShare file servers for Ultrix and several other 
>Unix platforms that would help your situation.  For a review of the Ultrix 
>products refer to Digital Review 9/24/90.  Their number is (508)898-3300 
>(East coast) or (619)454-0565 (West coast).
>
>/Matt
>---
>Matt Kingman - Macintosh Software Engineer
>Pacer Software Inc. - Westboro, MA 01581
>Disclaimer:  I speak only for myself.....

We have been using PacerShare here at CSUN for over 2 years.  We started
out with it running on VMS and it was very good and fairly quick.  When
we ditched our VMS node (yes, yes, thank-you, thank-you) we transferred
the license to ULTRIX.

All I can say is, I wish we kept the VMS system just for PacerShare.  I
have found GatorShare to be much faster and definately more tolerable
than PacerShare (for ULTRIX).  There is an excruciating pause when you
first login (while it is getting the volumes to mount) and then just
opening up windows is painful.  I really don't recommend the ULTRIX
version, but I highly recommend the VMS one.

Also, I can't seem to get it to go with ULTRIX 4.1, but then DEC broke
so many things in 4.1 that I really can't blame Pacer.

Mike.

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Mike Temkin
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