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- From: dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu (Dave Manning)
- Subject: NS 3.0 and AppleShare Servers
- Message-ID: <dmanning.725256728@cwis>
- Summary: is this guy right?
- Keywords: huh
- Sender: news@news.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server)
- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 04:12:08 GMT
- Lines: 37
-
- I know I'm treading in unfamiliar ground, but I figure if anyone knows the
- straight dope, it will be the comp.sys.next folks. So here goes:
-
- The other day I was hooking up a small Macintosh network at a client site,
- with plans to connect it to the company's larger NeXT network (ethernet over
- UTP). We had planned to use one of the Macs as a personal file server for
- the other Macs and one NeXT (running NeXTStep 3.0, which I thought could
- act as an AppleShare client) to work with WordPerfect files.
-
- The big moment comes, and the IS guy -- a NeXT devotee to the point of, well,
- obnoxiousness -- announces we can't hook into his NeXT network. He'd had
- reservations before about this (something about the Macs screwing up *his*
- NeXT network) but I thought everything was cool, that there wouldn't be
- any problem.
-
- Anyway, he announces that there's a huge bug in 3.0 that, when files are
- being copied between a NeXT client and an AppleShare server, the NeXT hangs,
- crashes, bombs out, whatever. He said he had just called NeXT, and they were
- going to release a patch "sometime next month" to fix it.
-
- My initial (unvoiced) reaction was: If NeXT was going to bother with putting
- in the necessary AppleTalk stuff to make the client setup possible, you'd
- think they'd test something as simple as a file copy on it. So, does anyone
- know anything about this? Is it a load of bunk, or has their been problems in
- this area?
-
- Any and all help is appreciated, and, if you're doing something like this,
- please let me know!
-
- Dave Manning
- Mac Guy and NeXT Fan
-
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