- AppleShare
AppleShare was a product from
Apple Computer which implemented variousnetwork service s. Its main purpose was acting as afile server , using the AFP protocol. Other network services implemented in later versions of AppleShare included a print server using the Printer Access Protocol (PAP),web server , electronicmail server , and SMB /CIFS server to support file sharing toMicrosoft Windows clients.Earlier versions of AppleShare supported only the
AppleTalk network transport protocol but later versions, sold under the name AppleShare IP, allowed use of theTCP/IP protocol stack, as used on most modern networks.AppleShare would operate with any physical network medium. Early installations used mainly
LocalTalk and more recentlyEthernet but any physical medium could be used which could be directly or indirectly connected to an AppleShare server system.Equivalent third party server products include the
open-source Netatalk suite onUnix -like systems, and Services for Macintosh onMicrosoft Windows NT and 2000. Versions of Mac OS from System 7 onwards included Personal File Sharing, which is a more limited AFP implementation. The most obvious difference between Personal File Sharing and AppleShare is that the former supports only a small number of concurrent remote users.All versions of Mac OS are capable of acting as a client to an AppleShare server, although more recent versions of
Mac OS X have gradually removed support for the AppleTalk protocol. Third-party software such as PC MACLAN and DAVE is also available to implement client functionality on Windows systems. Later versions of AppleShare also implemented the SMB andCIFS protocols which are the native file sharing protocols on Windows machines.Apple discontinued the AppleShare product line following the release of
Mac OS X Server which provides equivalent functionality.ystem requirements
AppleShare (IP) was famous for not supporting Macs with
PowerPC 603 (e) processors. The exception, introduced with AppleShare IP 5.0, was thePower Macintosh 6500 .ee also
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Disk sharing External links
* [http://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos8/NetworkCommSvcs/AppleShare/appleshare.html AppleShare Developer Documentation] - from developer.apple.com
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