Apple Product Datasheet
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AppleShare

Features

Powerful file and print services

  • Lets users store their files and applications in a single, central location
  • Makes it easy and efficient to print documents to networked printers
  • Provides comprehensive, easy-to-implement security
  • Includes Apple Remote Access MultiPort Server software for remote connections to AppleShare servers and services (AppleShare 4.2.1 only)

Ease of use

MacOS
  • Installs with a single click of the mouse
  • Can be up and running in minutes
  • Makes day-to-day management quick and easy
  • Users can take advantage of file and print services from either Macintosh computers or Windows software-based PCs

Compatibility

  • Includes full support for both Macintosh and Windows clients
  • Server works with all Mac OS-compatible applications

Performance and scalability

For Windows
  • Supports up to 250 users
  • Performs up to 10 times faster than built-in Mac OS file sharing
  • Can be configured for use in an AppleTalk network of any size
  • Is scalable from LocalTalk to Ethernet networks, and beyond
  • Offers highest performance when running on PowerPC-based Workgroup Servers

Description

AppleShare is high-performance, easy-to-use file- and print-sharing software that allows networked Macintosh and Microsoft Windows (including Windows 95) software-based computers to share files, applications, and printers.

With AppleShare file server software, organizations can store all of their shared files and applications in a single, central location, providing convenient, easy access to every user on the local area network. By allowing networked users to centralize all key files and applications for easy sharing, AppleShare improves everyone's productivity. It eliminates time spent looking for files, worrying about misplaced documents, and determining the file or application version.

AppleShare print server software offers all users queued access to up to five networked printers. This time-saving function allows users to be more productive because they can use their computers to tackle other tasks instead of waiting for documents to print.

With Apple Remote Access Multi-Port Server software-now included with AppleShare-up to 16 simultaneous Macintosh users can access AppleShare servers over a dial-up link, so even mobile users can take advantage of AppleShare file, print, and application services. AppleShare's network architecture coexists with other application programs and networking services such as Novell NetWare, Windows for Workgroups, and even the Internet.

Yet for all of its power and capabilities, AppleShare is extremely easy to set up, use, and maintain. It continues in the "plug and play" tradition established by the Macintosh more than a decade ago; most system administrators find that they can get an AppleShare server up and running within 15 minutes. And overall maintenance--including the addition and deletion of users--is so simple that a dedicated, full-time administrator is not required. In fact, because AppleShare is so easy to install, maintain, reconfigure, and expand, it offers the lowest long-term cost of ownership of any product in its class.

Whether your organization is a small or medium-size business, a classroom, or a department within a global enterprise, AppleShare improves collaboration and increases efficiency for all users.

Apple Share 4.2.1 Preferences Window

The new cache architecture used by AppleShare 4.2.1 is much simpler to work with and much more powerful than previous versions, providing enhanced performance for all users.

Product Details

Capabilities and services

  • Includes file and print servers
  • Supports Mac OS program linking and publish and subscribe
  • Features an open environment that allows additional network services
  • Macintosh client software built into every Macintosh; Windows client software sold separately
  • Includes Apple Remote Access MultiPort Server software for remote dial-up connections (AppleShare 4.2.1 only)

Sharing options

  • On-line CD-ROM exchange
  • Sharing of folders or entire disks
  • Easy server selection through the Chooser
  • Intuitive, consistent access to shared resources
  • User-controlled access to information

Print spooling

  • Provides spooling for up to five networked printers
  • Offers centralized queue management
  • Accepts simultaneous print requests
  • Frees client workstations for use immediately
  • Includes print log for up to 1,000 print jobs

Administrator control

  • Administrator can set number of connected users
  • Server messages can be broadcast or sent to selected users
  • Administrator can set cache sizes to maximize performance

Security

  • Minimum password length
  • Password aging
  • Password history to prevent immediate reuse
  • Ability to disallow saved passwords
  • Account disabled after specified number of password failures
  • Adjustable time limit for temporary accounts
  • Guest access allowed; turned off by default
  • Copy-protection setting for documents
  • "Lock" setting for folders
  • Adjustable number of concurrent application launches
  • Inherited folder privileges
  • Administrator log-off of any user

Supported platforms AppleShare Server

  • AppleShare 3.0.1: 68030-based (or earlier) Macintosh computers
  • AppleShare 4.0.2: 68040-based Macintosh computers
  • AppleShare 4.2.1: PowerPC processor-based Workgroup Servers only (NuBus and PCI)
Apple Share Specifications Table

AppleShare Client Macintosh

  • An Apple Macintosh computer with an internal hard disk drive and at least 4MB of RAM
  • Mac OS software version 6.0.7 or later
  • System 7.5.1 or later required for optimal performance of AppleShare 4.2

Windows

  • Any IBM or 100 percent compatible computer running Intel processor 386 or greater; ISA, MicroChannel, VISA, EISA, PCI, and internal buses; 4MB of RAM
  • Windows 3.1, 3.11; Windows 95; and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 software
  • MS-DOS 5.0 or later
  • Ethernet network adapter card
  • NDIS 3.0 or ODI network interface driver

Network requirements

  • An AppleTalk network connection (via LocalTalk, Ethernet, Token Ring, or dial-up connection via Apple Remote Access software)

AppleShare 4.0.2 is not designed to run on the Macintosh Quadra 660AV and Macintosh Quadra 840AV computers.
Apple Share Protection Examples

Ordering and Licensing Information

AppleShare Product Family

AppleShare software comes in three versions that are designed to accommodate a variety of workgroup sizes and performance needs.

  • AppleShare 3.0.1 is designed for smaller workgroups of Macintosh and Windows software-based computers that have outgrown the basic file-sharing capabilities of the Mac OS. It runs on 68030-based, or earlier, Macintosh computers.

  • AppleShare 4.0.2 offers significant performance improvements over AppleShare 3.0.1, and runs on 68040-based Macintosh computers. Like AppleShare 3.0.1, it's appropriate for smaller, cross-platform workgroups that want to move beyond simple Mac OS file sharing, and is extremely easy to set up and administer.

  • AppleShare 4.2.1 is the highest-performance AppleShare version available. Optimized for Apple PowerPC processor-based Workgroup Servers, it offers higher performance and supports more users than previous versions, yet retains the ease of use shared by the other product offerings in the AppleShare family.

AppleShare 3.0.1

  • Order No. M0090LL/B

AppleShare 4.0.2

  • Order No. M3995Z/A

AppleShare 4.2.1

  • Included with certain Workgroup Servers and available as an upgrade for AppleShare 4.x customers. Includes Apple Remote Access MultiPort Server software version 2.1. and the AppleShare Client for Windows 1.0.2.

AppleShare Client for Windows 1.0.2

  • Order No. M3481Z/B
    Included in all Workgroup Server configurations; client network license allows the installation of the client software on any Windows software-based PC on the network.
  • Product specifications are subject to change. Check with your Apple reseller for the most current information about product specifications and configurations.

(c) 1996 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, AppleShare, AppleTalk, LocalTalk, Macintosh, and Macintosh Quadra are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S.A. and other countries. Mac is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. PowerPC is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation, used under license therefrom. NuBus is a trademark of Texas Instruments. Mention of non-Apple products is for informational purposes only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to the selection, performance, or use of these products. All understandings, agreements, or warranties, if any, take place directly between the vendors and the prospective users.

January 1996. Product specifications are subject to change without notice. Printed in U.S.A.

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