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From: 6111231@PUCC.BITNET (Peter Wisnovsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Fileservers for the MAc
Message-ID: <1581@PUCC.BITNET>
Date: Sun, 18-Jan-87 15:37:27 EST
Article-I.D.: PUCC.1581
Posted: Sun Jan 18 15:37:27 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 23-Jan-87 07:09:52 EST
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Organization: Princeton University - Computing and Information Technology
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I made a posting requesting information about file servers for the Mac,
especially hardware servers like the 3com 3server. I got the following
response which I thought others might be interested in seeing:
 
)In my spare time I work for Milwaukee County and this summer we obtained
)a 3Server, 10 Mac Pluses, a Laserwriter and lots of other stuff.  The 3Server
)came with a 74 Meg hard disk and a 60 Meg tape backup.  The next few months were
)hell.  Currently 3Com does not support maintenance of the server from a Mac.
)You need an IBM PC with an Ethernet card to do any of the normal system
)maintenance.   We have also had a lot of system crashes and currently
)10 Meg of the 3Server are taken up by unmountable volumes that cannot be
)recovered, backed-up, restored or anything.  3Com has plans for an upgrade
)and promised it by September, then December, now it looks like March.  They
)say that this will fix most of the problems but I doubt it.  They also will
)not talk to the end user, only an authorized dealer, so there is no support
)directly from the company and you depend on your dealer for every thing.
)
)Apple has stopped working actively with 3Com (a dealer told me this) and is
)consentrating on their own fileserver due out this month.  (rumors again)
)
)
)I would wait and look into the many other alternatinves out there before
)sinking $20,000 into a 3Server.
)
)Good Luck,
)
)Michael Radovancevich
)
)Univ. of WI Academic Computing Center
)Milwaukee County Department of Parks Administration
)
)ARPA:        miker@unix.macc.wisc.edu
)
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)Michael P. Radovancevich     Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison C.S. Dept.
)Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison Academic Computing Center (MACC) Micro Consultant
)UUCP :   ...{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!miker
)ARPA :   miker@unix.macc.wisc.edu
) m radovancevich     6111231@PUCC.BITNET 01/16/87*Fileservers for the Mac
 
Peter Wisnovsky
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