Re: [WinMac] AppleshareIP. Argggh!

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:50:34 -0400

        Dear Brad:

        You're pissing on the toilet lid with AppleShare IP. Reverse everything and
install NT/Server 4.0 with SP3 and Services for Macintosh (with SFM hotfix).
You can dual boot NT4 with Win `95 (or `98); and there is a FAT32 driver
available from Mark Russinovich at
 <http://www.ntinternals.com>.

        In short, Apple's server products, since v5.0, suck.

        Cheers!
        Dan

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At 09:29 PM 8/16/98 -0400, Brad Cox wrote:
>I've just added a MacG3 server and a GatewayPC to my home LAN. Its driving
>me crazy!
>
>The first problem was a dialog saying "please insert disk @#$@#$", where
>@#$@#$ is complete gibberish. I must have hit cmd-. a million times. I'm
>guessing there's a bad alias somewhere thats causing this. Clueless so far.
>Doubt its one of mine; I suspect it was a network volume being used by
>whoever installed this software at the factory.
>
>In trying to get past that one, I downloaded the AppleshareIP 6.0 beta,
>hoping the new install would clean up the mess. No such luck. Still getting
>the "insert disk" dialog. After clicking past that a few hundred times, I
>got to the AppleShareIP WEb and File Server dialog, where the system hung
>hard. Going to reboot it once I send this.
>
>At some point just prior to this branch of the search tree, I was getting a
>message that the "Sharing Setup" control panel wasn't right. There's no
>such thing as a Sharing Setup cdev on any of the many mac systems I have.
>
>To get past that I rebooted without extensions, deleted the users and
>groups preferences, and got the File Sharing cdev to run again (wouldn't
>with AppleshareIP installed). Sure enough, the password field had
>disappeared. Added one, and managed to get past the blockage.
>
>There you are. Dead in the water. Completely confused and even more
>frustrated.
>
>PS: All this is with a brand new right out of the box G3, with all
>software preinstalled at the factory. All I've done is configured a hosts
>file for my five machines. DNS and ping tests work fine. So does plain
>filesharing, between the macs and also to the PC (which is running
>Copstalk).
>
>Can someone please help? Thanks!
>
>---
>Brad Cox; George Mason University; 703 361 4751; bcox@gmu.edu
>http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon A Project with Paradoxical Goals
>
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