austins@violet.berkeley.edu (08/05/88)
Does anyone have the name, address, etc. of the manufacturer of "Tangent*Share". I believe this is an AppleShare client (and server?) for the PC. Thanks.
barry@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Barry Fausnaugh) (08/05/88)
In article <12978@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> austins@violet.berkeley.edu writes: >Does anyone have the name, address, etc. of the manufacturer of >"Tangent*Share". I believe this is an AppleShare client (and >server?) for the PC. Thanks. TangentShare Tangent Technologies Ltd. 5720 Peachtree Parkway Norcross, GA 30092 (404) 662-0366 AppleLink D0033 MCI Mail - Tangent TangentShare is an AFP (hence AppleShare) client software package. The PC that it is connected to can act as a client to any AFP (AppleTalk Filing Protocol, I believe is the proper name) server. It does not act as a server. It also requires the use of an AppleTalkPC card for the PC. It works pretty well although it does not hide password entry. Barry -- Arpa: barry@vax1.acs.udel.edu Uucp: ...{ihnp4,unidot,uunet}!cfg!udel!udccvax1!barry
alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) (08/06/88)
Barry Fausnaugh just supplied the address for TangentShare.
Unfortunately, Tanget just went out of business. Several companies are
looking into acquiring their various assets, and I believe that someone
just bought non-exclusive rights to TangentShare.
In any event, Dayna is reportedly ready to announce a similar product.
I suggest that the person who needs this product wait 10 days until the
MacWorld show is over, and then ask his question again.
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In article <1725@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> barry@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Barry Fausnaugh) writes: >In article <12978@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> austins@violet.berkeley.edu writes: >>Does anyone have the name, address, etc. of the manufacturer of >>"Tangent*Share"... > >TangentShare is an AFP (hence AppleShare) client software package. The PC that >it is connected to can act as a client to any AFP (AppleTalk Filing Protocol, I >believe is the proper name) server. It does not act as a server... We bought TangentShare right after it came out and had lots of trouble with it recognizing multiple volumes on our AppleShare server. Repeated calls to Tangent (some weren't ever returned) yielded little more than "that shouldn't be happening". Apple's own AppleShare PC product seems much more robust in its implementation. We've run it with no problems from day one on IBM PS/2 Model 25s & 30s, and Zenith 386 machines. I think it was noted in comp.sys.mac that the AppleShare PC only runs on Apple's LocalTalk PC boards - we found this to be true. It doesn't run on Tangent's board. Last year at MacWorld Expo in Boston we took a look at Tangent's product that would turn MS-DOS machines into AppleShare file servers. Supposedly if you had a lot of cheap hard disk IBM clones gathering dust you could utilize them as AFP file servers. This was (is?) a separate product from TangentShare. The name for this product escapes me... Larry Larraga University of Delaware Microcomputing Resource Center Senior Analyst 152 Newark Hall Newark, DE 19716 (302)451-6782 INTERNET: larry@pyr1.acs.udel.edu BITNET: ACS26825@UDACSVM COMPUSERVE: 76505,1426 GENIE: XMP14851 PAN: LSQUARED
dxjsb@dcatla.UUCP (Jack S. Brindle) (08/08/88)
> We bought TangentShare right after it came out and had lots of trouble with > it recognizing multiple volumes on our AppleShare server. Repeated calls > to Tangent (some weren't ever returned) yielded little more than "that > shouldn't be happening". Apple's own AppleShare PC product seems much more Interesting. To my knowledge (which is actually rather limited in this case), Tangentshare never actually shipped. There are quite a few beta copies out, but the product had not been completed when Tangent met its demise. I do know, that the product is seeing a bit of rework, and SHOULD be released in the near future. The product indeed does exist, and works quite nicely. It, along with most of Tangent's other products have survived Tangent, and will shortly reappear from other vendors. For those that wonder what TangentShare is, it is actually two parts. One is an Appleshare client that runs on PCs and compatibles that allows them to access files on Appleshare servers. The second, and more significant to Mac types, turns a PC or clone into an Appleshare server. The idea is that instead of spending lots of bucks for an SE with hard disk, you simply buy an inexpensive AT compatible with hard disk. The cost savings are significant. Tangentshare WILL run on an XT or compatible (in fact that is the configuration we run), but it is slow. An AT is definitely recommended. As Alexis said earlier, watch Boston. Things could get interesting. Jack Brindle