HELIOS Ships EtherShare AFP 3.1 Support with "Smart Permissions"
Currently, users cannot change new files and folders unless “write permissions” are manually granted after every save. HELIOS "smart permissions" eliminates this problem and makes OS X file sharing and collaboration much easier.
Hannover, Germany (PRWEB) March 3, 2004 -- HELIOS Software GmbH, a leading
provider of file, print and prepress server solutions for Mac OS X, Linux and
all major Unix platforms, announces that HELIOS EtherShare support for AFP 3.1
is now available with the significant, HELIOS exclusive, "smart permissions"
feature. HELIOS EtherShare with AFP 3.1 support is the easiest, best performing,
and most reliable method for sharing files easily and efficiently over a network
with multiple Mac OS X clients.
Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) 3.1 is
required to provide full server compatibility with Mac OS X clients, and works
as well with Mac OS 8/9 clients. EtherShare support for AFP 3.1 brings these
major benefits to OS X clients:
- Very large file support, no 4 GB limit
any longer, for archive, prepress and video data
- Unicode/UTF-8 file names
and volumes
- File names up to 255 characters in length
- Client/Server
reconnect support, and client sleep support
- 2-3 times faster performance
than NFS or SMB/CIFS file sharing
- Smart file/folder permissions for OS X
clients
HELIOS exclusive "smart permissions"
A unique HELIOS feature
is smart file/folder permissions for OS X clients. This adds tremendous
functionality to AFP 3.1, and solves one of the biggest problems for Mac OS X
clients - that other users cannot change new files and folders unless “write
permissions” are manually granted after every save. HELIOS "smart permissions"
addresses this problem and creates files/folders by default with write
permissions. The HELIOS AFP 3.1 server assigns write permissions for "group" and
"others" to folders, and assigns to files the write permissions of the parent
folder. This solves a serious issue for many users and makes OS X file sharing
and collaboration much easier.
2-3 times faster performance than NFS or
SMB/CIFS file sharing
Using a 1 GHz G4 Mac OS X 10.2 client connected via
Gigabit Ethernet to a fast EtherShare AFP 3.1 server, LanTest™ shows read/write
performance up to 60 MBytes per second when using a single OS X client.
Server-based FindFile using AFP volumes is done in seconds versus hours using
NFS or SMB/CIFS volumes.
100% AFP file and directory ID
compatibility
In addition, HELIOS EtherShare offers
100% AFP compatible file and directory IDs, which are used by Mac OS 8/9 and Mac
OS X clients to reference files and folders. Other AFP server solutions without
100% AFP ID support suffer from major multi-user problems such as removing or
using wrong files/folders, especially when using multiple Mac OS X clients.
Working with HELIOS EtherShare avoids this problem.
Complete information,
release notes and downloads are available at:
http://www.helios.de/support/afp31p.html
HELIOS
EtherShare is part of the HELIOS 4th generation family of network and prepress
server products. EtherShare, PCShare, and WebShare provide integrated
cross-platform networking for Macintosh and Windows clients, offering advanced
file and print server services, with easy remote server administration. HELIOS
ImageServer, PDF HandShake and PrintPreview bring high efficiency and advanced
capabilities to design, prepress and printing operations.
Smart Ideas for
Better Networking
HELIOS products run on powerful and scalable servers
including Apple Computer Mac OS X, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX and Tru64 UNIX, IBM
AIX, SGI IRIX, Sun Solaris, and Linux on Pentium based systems. HELIOS products
provide reliable cross-platform support for Macintosh, DOS/Windows and
UNIX-based clients.
Distributors sell HELIOS products worldwide to
value-added resellers who provide complete networking solutions to customers.
HELIOS also works with many strategic partners http://www.helios.de/products/partners.html that incorporate
HELIOS server software to provide powerful third party archive, asset management
and workflow solutions. HELIOS software products are also available as part of
OEM solutions by many major vendors in the prepress industry.
For U.S.
Sales
European MikroGraf Corp.: 916-923-3520; e-mail protected from spam
bots; http:www.ugraf.com.
For further editor information, please
contact:
HELIOS Software GmbH, Attn: marketing, Steinriede 3, D-30827
Garbsen, Germany; Fax +49 5131-709325; E-mail: e-mail protected from spam bots;
or Web access at http://www.helios.com.
Contact:
Helmut Tschemernjak,
HELIOS Software GmbH, +49-5131-709320, e-mail protected from spam
bots;
Thomas Hallinan, HELIOS Software GmbH U.S. office, 209-827-2760, e-mail
protected from spam bots;
Bill Gram-Reefer, WORLDVIEW, 925-215-8463, e-mail
protected from spam bots.
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