AppleShare Server 3.0: Product Highlights

This article highlights the most important features of AppleShare Server 3.0.
Multiple Service Platform
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- System 7 multitasking environment, including support for program linking and publish and subscribe.

- Includes AppleShare file and print services.

- Open environment allows additional network services.


Administrator Control
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- Set number of connected users

- Send server messages to any user

- Share entire hard disks or selected folders

- Change CD-ROMs without shutting down the server

- Adjust file server performance through system caching and control over file server task prioritization


Security Enhancements
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- Minimum password length

- Password aging

- Password history to prevent immediate reuse

- Ability to disallow saved passwords

- Account disable after specified number of password failures

- Adjustable time limit for temporary accounts

- Guest access 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

Print Spooling
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- Spooling for up to five AppleTalk printers

- Centralized queue management

- Accepts simultaneous print requests

- Reduced user delay

- Print log for 1000 print jobs


Maximum Number of...
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- Concurrent users 120

- Open files 346

- Shared volumes 50

- Users 8192**

- Groups 8192**

- Users in group 8191

- Groups per user 42

- Locked ranges per user 20

- Apple II network startups 40


AppleShare Access Privileges
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- Both the user and the administrator can control access to information

- Eight different access privileges


How Users View Shared Data
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- Full access privileges

- Drop folder, write capability only

- No access privileges


How Users Protect Their Data
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- Can't see enclosed folders

- Can't see enclosed files

- Can't write to folder

- Can't write to or see folders

- Can't write to or see files


* Requires a multilaunch application and appropriate license agreement.

** The sum of users and groups cannot exceed 8192. The recommended limit is 2000.
Published Date: Feb 18, 2012