Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!mithomas
From: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help need it on AppleShare (long!!)
Message-ID: <5558@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 89 18:39:14 GMT
References: <Feb.3.00.26.45.1989.18494@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <Feb.3.00.26.45.1989.18494@topaz.rutgers.edu>, makmur@topaz.rutgers.edu (Hanz Makmur) writes:
> 
> hi...I need help real bad from any body out there who have  installed
> an appleshare network. I was given the project after i was successfully
> installed the TOPS network 2 Years ago flawlessly.( God I love Tops!!)
> 
> i am setting up an appleshare network for 13 Macs SE and 6 ATT 6300 
> and 1 IBMPC.(About the 1/5 x number of machines when I was installing TOPS)
> 
> From what i have experienced so far, i can list a couple problems
> that i hope some one out there may have answers for it.
> 
> 1. all 12 macs can access the server (the SE with 4M memory) with no problem.
>    In the Server, I put MacWrite 5.01  that has a SHARED bit checked using
>    DiskTop 3.3.(In ResEdit1.2B, the same bit says CACHED) to make the MacWrite
>    multilaunch.( On TOPS, this is a must to make an application multilauch.)
[Various steps deleted]
> 2. the success rate of the Appleshare card on the ATT was 60%,(2 out of 6 fail)
>    to work properly. and the the installation on the PC was a total failure.
>    According to an apple salesman, the ApplesharePC card doesnot work with PC
>    but the AppleShare PC card manual says it should work. If anyone out there
>    ever installed the card, could you guys let me know ?? (Thanks !!)
> Hanz Makmur
> Rutgers University

For question number 1:

Here I have installed 4 AppleShare networks (in fact, I got three up and running
in one day).  I encountered no real problems (except where to put the server so
that it wouldn't be disturbed).  I did have to use ResEdit to set the {CACHED,
SHARED} bit (depending on the version; see the tech note that discusses the
switch in versions prior to 1.2B3), just as you did.  We can multilaunch as
many copies of MacWrite 5.01 as we want.  In fact, to test the speed of the
network, we went around to all 22 stations and launched each application to test
response times.  No problems at all.  There was one thing that we may have had
different: the applications are locked on the fileservers here so that they can
not be moved or erased.

For number 2:

I have installed boards in AT&T PC6300s, Zenith 148s, IBM PS/2 model 30s, and
have had no problems with any of the installations.  Except for the one that had
an older LocalTalk PC card.  If you use a card with the old ROMs, running
the DA program will lock the machine up, with it beeping every time you hit
return.  You may want to check to see if any other cards are conflicting with
the LocalTalk card (we noticed that our Microsoft Bus Mouse was trying to
use the same area that our card wanted to use, so we removed the mouse, since
no one used it on the Zenith anyway).

I would think that a LocalTalk PC card could be installed in a plain IBM PC
but since I have never tried it, I can't be sure.

Michael Niehaus
Apple Student Rep
Ball State University
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