curfman@agora.uucp (Matthew Curfman) (07/26/90)
A friend of mine that is an administrator of a Appleshare network at a local middle school is now required to attach 25 Apple IIgs's to the network. Has anyone on the net had any experience with putting GS's on the network? We would be interested on difficulty of setting up the software on the fileserver, and any additional speed decrease above and beyond the normal decrease adding machines would have on the network. Any comments? _____________________________________________________________________________ | | | | Matt Curfman | My opinions may not reflect the | | curfman@agora.hf.intel.com | opinions of Technovelty, Inc., | | curfmanm@prism.cs.orst.edu | Intel Corp., or Oregon State Univ. | |_______________________________________|_____________________________________| | | | Celibacy is not hereditary- author unknown | |_____________________________________________________________________________|
jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) (07/28/90)
It's not hard. There is a disk that comes with system 5.0 for the GS, however, that you will need. It is a Macintosh disk containing a driver to allow the AppleShare Mac to do its thing correctly. Once its done, all you have to do is turn on Apple // Admin (I believe it is a checkbox) and then proceed normally. Especially considering you are using GS's and not older //'s, there is little else you need to do except create a few extra users, such as one to contain GS binaries. Things get tricky when you want to BOOT the GS's off the network, but all this is possible too. Once Apple // Admin is activated on the Mac, there will appear a new pull-down menu named "Apple //" for you to use in setting up files for Apple //'s to BOOT from. You have to make sure that the GS's have the proper client software, or atleast one copy. The system disk and utilities disk for system 5.0.2 are all you need. The installer contains the routines to set up your system. Remember, some options for installation are for machine to BOOT off the network, so watch out. The best docs I ever say on this kind of thing was from Open-Apple way back when 5.0 was a new thing. Once things are up and running, things work pretty much without problems, much to Apple's credit. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |Jeremy Mereness | Support | Ye Olde Disclaimer: | |jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (internet) | Free | The above represent my| |a700jm7e@cmccvb (Vax... bitnet) | Software | opinions, alone. | |staff/student@Carnegie Mellon U. | | Ya Gotta Love It. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------