[WinMac] Re: Is DAVE 2.1 safe???
Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 05 Jan 1999 11:18:28 -0500
Good morning!
First off, if you are using Norton Utilities, patch them to v3.52; or
preferably replace them with NUM 4.0;
Second, I ALWAYS disable Crash Guard (and DiskLight, and File Saver);
Third, I tried last week the demo of Dave 2.1 on a G3/System 8.5.1; and it
crashed relatively quickly.
Result: Stick with the AppleTalk stack and use NT/Server's Services for
Macintosh. 1.6 megabytes per second sustained file transfer rate (both
transmitting and receiving) is pretty damn good...
Cheers!
Dan
At 11:33 PM 1/5/99 +0900, you wrote:
>We used DAVE 2.0 (4 Macs on a large Windows network) without too many
>problems for about 4 months. Then we added a G3 server with System 8.1,
>AppleShareIP 5.0,6.0, then 6.1. We experienced a variety of problems which
>became worse with each AppleShare upgrade. The AppleShare clients
>(including the latest version), regularly became corrupted, and other HD
>problems were occurring. At first I assumed it was just Norton Utilities.
>However, being a bit suspicious of DAVE, I disabled it and also disabled
>Norton Crash Guard and FileSaver at the same time. The problems went away.
>
>Then I had to connect to an NT Workstation computer on our network so I
>re-enabled DAVE and within an hour my 8500 was unstable again and the
>AppleShare client was so corrupted that it had to be re-installed. I can't
>say whether the problems are just DAVE, or a combination of Norton, DAVE
>and AppleShareIP yet. We don't really have time to deliberately mess up one
>of our machines to find out. We have had two of 3 Macs using DAVE lose ALL
>the data on their HD's. Even Data Rescue couldn't save more than a handful
>of files. The three Macs with DAVE installed have all been seriously
>affected. We are using the latest updates of everything. The one machine
>without DAVE installed had only minor problems likely to be related to
>earlier versions of Norton.
>
>We really need the functionality that DAVE gave us. I preferred using DAVE
>to PC MacLAN. I am going to try the new 2.1 version but I am not looking
>forward to all the problems recurring.
>
>Is anyone out there using DAVE 2.1 in a similar environment? How is it
>performing?
>
>Sue McNab
>smcnab@gol.com
>
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