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"One of the machines I have at the present moment is a IIci, with
an 040 card, 128 MB RAM, 280 MB hard drive and three empty NuBus slots.
From what I have read on the list and else where, it would make an
excellent server."
Let me quote my home system to resolve some of this.
Currently I have a 7100/66 for my
wife and a PowerCenter 150 for
myself, as well as a few Intel boxes for routing to the business. I use
a Mac Plus file server with a 4.3GB
hard drive running AppleShare 3.03. I
usually use this file server for easy transfer of rarely used
applications and other emergency installer programs for both the
PowerCenter and 7100.
The advantage is that you can take less used applications that you
feel might be necessary from time to time - 7.5 installers and 7.5.5
updates, Netscape installers, certain internet programs like Fetch,
NewsWatcher, Anarchie, ICQ -- things that you don't normally run all
the time, but take up hard drive space on your main machine that you
could use for something else. Additionally, it's wonderful not to have
to re-download a program like Netscape 4.05 on one machine, install and
throw the file away, then realize you need to re-download the program
when you work on the other machines - you can always load the new
installer on the server, and have it available whenever it's needed for
upgrades on the rest. The info is mounted through the Chooser as an
AppleShare volume, and just acts like a slow hard drive partition.
On my server, I have a partition named utilities, in this folder are
several folders.
Step 1, are the 7.5, 7.5 Update, and 7.5.5 update
installers, as well as ARA, QuickTime 2.5, AppleShare client update,
and Open Transport 1.1.2. Additionally the Network Access boot image is
there -- giving me a way to access the file server from simply a bootup
disk on each machine in case my hard drive crashes. Recently I've added
the full 8.0 install with the 8.1 update. If any of the machines at
home crash hard, I can recreate the system software from here.
Step 2 contains After Dark, RAM Doubler, Speed Doubler, True
Finder Integration, Conflict Catcher. It also contains FWB CD Toolkit
3.0, and Stilverlining, as well as FWB Hard Disk Toolkit 2.5 for IDE
drives.
Step 3 contains FreePPP, Netscape 4.05 Navigator and
Communicator (separately), ARA dial-in documents for client servers,
Acrobat Reader, Fetch install.
Step 4 contains other software - Photoshop installers,
downloaded Netscape plug ins, Real Player programs, all the extra
applications stuff that I normally use that I need to do work and
play.
Other Applications contains the following, and aren't
installers - they're full programs that I rarely use, but take up a lot
of hard drive space when installed on each machine . . .
Hardware Info - Apple Spec 5/97, asanteprintmgr, Gauges,
GURU 2.6
Programming - ResEdit, Resourcer
Combining these together, they normally take up 500 MB of hard drive
space, additionally, both I and my wife use some of these, but not all
the time - the time that it takes to launch them over the network is
nothing compared to the amount of drive space that they'd normally take
up.
I also use the CD Archive server to move downloaded internet
materials to when my hard drive gets full of things that I want to cut
to CD-ROM. It's very nice to have an extra couple of GB available on
the server to move things to when working on 300-400 MB graphics in
Photoshop. (See Burning CDs for more
information on burning your own CD-ROMs.)
This server also serves as a network printer server for the
StyleWriter, which is the machine we print personal consulting invoices
on. If we needed to, we could move a modem to this machine and share
the modem among the machines.
All in all, it's a good place to store information that isn't
specific to a single machine. It provides an easy way for people to
leave messages or files downloaded on their machine for you to browse
later, without immediately tying up your machine with file sharing
turned on. You can create network folders to store private files that
no one else can see, without an advanced encryption scheme, and drop
files for your wife or kids in their own drop folder that only they can
access. It's a very nice way of keeping guests out of private files
when they're using your systems, and also insurance against system
crashes and hard drive failures.
If the kids hose their machine, you don't have to go scrambling for
reinstallers and downloading a mess of programs, or try to figure out a
way to get the files off of your installation CD because their machine
doesn't have a CD-ROM attached (my wife's 7100 doesn't have a CD-ROM,
so installing over the network is slower to do, but much easier and
more organized than taking the machine apart and hooking up a CD ROM,
or finding all of your old installer boxes with disks and doing it much
more slowly.
Scott L. Barber
<serker@earthling.net>
Pres/CEO, SERKER Worldwide, Inc.
Providing Hardware/Networking/Telecomm for 13 years
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