K-AShare is an AFP-compatible file server for UNIX hosts. It allows a
UNIX host to act as an AppleShare server for Macintosh users. To
access K-AShare, a Macintosh user opens the Chooser, logs in, and
selects AppleShare volumes just as if the volumes were on an Apple
dedicated file server. K-AShare volumes then appear on the desktop.
Mac users can open, read, copy, move, drag to the trash, or launch
files on the volumes just like local files.
While Mac users see nothing different, the network benefits from a
number of UNIX features. Access to files on the host conforms to
standard UNIX system security with login validation and file access
permissions enforced. At the same time, K-AShare maps AppleShare
security (drop folders, see folders, see files, and make changes) to
UNIX security.
K-AShare allows system administrators to assign Mac users individual
accounts on the host machine and to create groups of users who have
common access privileges to the files and folders. Mac users only
need to know the appropriate password to gain access to these files
and folders. System managers may also send messages to Mac users and
log out individual Mac users from the server.
Administrators will find K-AShare easy to install -- requiring a
single installation on the host machine rather than an installation on
each Mac client.
K-AShare's Transparent File Determination (TFD) feature automatically
integrates applications which run on both UNIX and Macintosh
platforms. To interact with data files created under UNIX, Mac users
only need to "point and click." When a Macintosh user double clicks on
a data file originally created under UNIX by an application, for
example FrameMaker, TFD interrogates the file and allows the Macintosh
to launch the correct application. TFD can be extended easily to
include new file types.
K-AShare includes a UNIX utility which converts Macintosh archival
formats (for example BinHex, AppleSingle, AppleDouble, and MacBinary)
to K-AShare formats. This allows Macintosh-archived files to be
stored in K-AShare and makes it possible, once the files are
converted, to transfer them via email.
A UNIX host running K-AShare can be a client to remote file servers
based on Sun's NFS and can act as a gateway, making any mounted file
system accessible to Macintosh users.
K-AShare is versatile. Macs can be on a LocalTalk network connected
to the Ethernet by a router or directly connected to the Ethernet.
K-Talk,
Xinet's implementation
of the AppleTalk network communications protocols. AppleTalk
protocols run on both LocalTalk and Ethernet networks with EtherTalk
protocols. EtherTalk can co-exist on an Ethernet with other protocols
such as TCP/IP or XNS.
K-AShare Features
Product Description
NFS Gateway
Network Configuration
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