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From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 7.0 file sharing speed
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.121501.2368@panix.uucp>
Date: 11 Apr 91 12:15:01 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.160025.10548@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr10.204659.12824@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY
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I haven't had much to say about 7 because I am generally content to wait
for them to do it right by themselves... but one thing about File Sharing
bothers me greatly.

In Beta 4, there was no way (that I found, anyway) to set the maximum number
of simultaneous clients. This feature existed in the Alphas.

I haven't had time to look at FC1, so if it's back, please tell me...

The reason this is so important is that I heard from a source that I considered
to be fairly reliable that the maximum had been permanently pegged at 5. This
is disastrously bad- it means that an office of 20 people (for example) can't
all keep a file-server mounted. You might think that for 20 people, a real
copy of AppleShare is warranted. But that's not relevant- they may have a
server (or two) already, and simply want to use the File Sharing for infrequent
tasks (a drop folder server, or a file archive, etc.).

If we're stuck with 5 clients the utility of F.S. will be crippled.  I hope
that, if this is the case, it will be possible to patch it.

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