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From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: CAP 5.0, aufs, and System 6.0 package...
Keywords: aufs AppleShare des cheap wonderful
Message-ID: <5704@coherent.com>
Date: 15 Jun 88 23:48:15 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Coherent Thought Inc., Palo Alto CA
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I managed to locate and purchase a copy of the System Software Update
Version 6.0 package yesterday afternoon.  As rumor had suggested, this
package does include the AppleShare client (workstation) code;  there's
an Installer script for it on the Utilities 1 disk.

I installed AppleShare on my SE, installed the CAP 5.0 version of aufs
in our Sun server's CAP library, and fired up aufs on both the server (a
3/180) and my diskful 3/60.  It works very nicely indeed (I _love_ the
aufs-disk icon!  Now, if I could only color it red...).

The one problem I'm having is that I can't seem to get the
"automatically mount volumes at boot time" feature to work.  I can enter
my id and password at boot time, or have them remembered by
AppleShare... but I always receive a message saying "The attempt to
connect to the server failed.  Try again later."

My suspicion is that AppleShare is trying to send my password across to
the aufs server in DES-scrambled form, and is receiving a "bad password"
or "I don't understand scrambled passwords" response from the server.
I'm going to fetch the DES sources from uunet, rebuild aufs with
password scrambing turned on, and try it again.

So... trumpet out the news!  It's no longer necessary to shell out $900
for the AppleShare server package from Apple just to get the AppleShare
client... you can get it for $49 in the 6.0 update (with disks and
docs), or for the cost of 4 disks if you can find a dealer who will let
you copy their 6.0 update disk set.  CAP/AUFS just turned from an
excellent deal to an _incredible_ deal!


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