Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!princeton!puvax2!6111231@PUCC.BITNET
From: 6111231@PUCC.BITNET (Peter Wisnovsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Fileservers for the Mac
Message-ID: <1517@PUCC.BITNET>
Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 13:17:15 EST
Article-I.D.: PUCC.1517
Posted: Tue Jan  6 13:17:15 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Jan-87 23:00:37 EST
Reply-To: 6111231@PUCC.BITNET
Organization: Princeton University Computing Center, Princeton, New Jersey
Lines: 23
Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article


Has anyone had any experience with fileservers for the Mac, especially
the 3Com file server? We are trying to set up a network with about
17 users with the following capabilities:
* Mail between users (mail and file transfer)
* Private and shared partitions
* File backup onto tape, with the ability to back up a selected group of files
  (say, all letters from march)
* Spooling to Laserwriter from PageMaker and other programs
* Compatibility with IBM PCs will not be needed, although it is always better
  to have it than not, I suppose.
 
This would probably require a hard disk with about 100 meg +, which I would
think rules out HyperNet, and it also has a lot of users for
MacServe, which is why I have been thinking about the 3Server: I would
prefer a dedicated hardware device anyway (just on principal: dedicating
a mac to operate as the network administrator seems wasteful to me.)
This is a publishing office where we will be using Word for the editorial
department and PageMaker for production: any information on Word 3.0 and
PM 2.0 (especially whether PM 2.0 will read Word 3.0 files) would be
appreciated.
 
Peter Wisnovsky
Virtual Address:         UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!6111231@pucc.bitnet