[comp.sys.mac] Waterloo Janet

viraf@gwusun.gwu.edu (Viraf Bankwalla) (05/16/89)

> 
> Apart from AppleShare what other file server software
> is available for the Macintosh.  I know of three other
> and would appreciate information on them also.  MacServe
> (which may now be defunct?), TOPS (which I know little
> about) and MacJanet (which I know nothing about).
> 
> I'd especially like info about MacJanet as I've been
> told that it was specifically designed for the student
> environment where AppleShare obviously wasn't.
> 
> Luke Visser
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi,

	We at the George Washington University (School of Engineering)
have been using Waterloo MacJANET for around three years.  I find the
product ideal for a university environment, and administrative tasks
are greatly simplified.  A nice feature of JANET is that they provide
a means to encrypt and assign quotas to applications.

	The JANET team has always been responsive to suggestions, and
I enjoy dealing with them.

	Our rep is Mike Paola @ (519) 886-3700.

						viraf bankwalla
						viraf@gwusun.gwu.edu
						uunet!gwusun!viraf

paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) (05/17/89)

In article <1367@gwusun.gwu.edu> viraf@gwusun.gwu.edu (Viraf Bankwalla) writes:
>> 
>	We at the George Washington University (School of Engineering)
>have been using Waterloo MacJANET for around three years.  I find the

I agree that Waterloo MacJANET is very good for the student university
environment.  TOPS and Appleshare might be ok for small offices, but there
is no easy way to handle large number of accounts and adequately control
software in these products.  MacJANET is designed with these things in
mind.  The next version is even to have laser printer accounting!

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