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About AppleShare Client 3.8.6

Contents

• Introduction
• Requirements for using the software
• Installing the AppleShare client software
• Changes with AppleShare client software version 3.8.6
• Changes with AppleShare client software version 3.8.5
• Using the new features of the AppleShare client software
• Known Incompatibilities and Limitations
• Additional Information

• System Software: 8.1 or later

• For Mac OS 7.5.1 or earlier, use AppleShare Workstation version 3.5.
• For Mac OS 7.5.1 up to (but not including) version 7.5.3, use AppleShare Workstation version 3.6.5.
• For Mac OS 7.5.3 up to (but not including) version 7.6, use AppleShare Client version 3.7.4.
• For Mac OS 7.6 up to (but not including) version 8.1, use AppleShare Client version 3.8.3.
• For Mac OS 8.1 and later, use AppleShare Client version 3.8.6.

Installing the AppleShare client software

To install the AppleShare client software, double-click the Installer and follow the onscreen instructions.

The AppleShare Client Installer places the AppleShare Chooser extension in the Extensions folder (in the System Folder) appropriate for the localized version of the Mac OS installed on your computer.

On System 8.5 and later, AppleShare Client 3.8.6 will create a folder in the Extensions folder named "AppleShare Folder" to hold User Authentication Modules (UAMs) if the user drops a UAM file onto the active System Folder, the UAM file will be autorouted to the folder.

After installing the AppleShare Client 3.8.6 you will need to reselect any server volumes you have set to mount at startup (see changes section below).

Changes with AppleShare client software version 3.8.6

• Fixes a crash with the DHX Authentication when attempting to connect to a Mac OS X server for the second time due to an incorrect password or user name.

• Integrates the DHX User Authentication method into the client, you should remove the DHX UAM file from the "AppleShare Folder" as it is no longer needed. The DHX Authentication method is used to securely connect to Mac OS X servers.
• Allows the user to change passwords using the DHX authentication method.
• If the DHX User Authentication Method is available on the server, the AppleShare Client will use it instead of the two-way encrypted UAM that was the previous standard UAM. Developers using the PBVolumeMount() call to mount servers will will be automatically be upgraded to use the DHX UAM if it is present.
• The PBVolumeMount() call no longer negotiates a less secure connection than was requested in the UAMType field. This means that a PBVolumeMount() call that requests 2-Way Randnum Exchange (UAMType = 6) will not fall back to using ClearText (UAMType = 2) . This can be a problem when accessing servers that typically support ClearText only, such as servers running on UNIX, NT or NetWare.
• Supports the new Keychain features in Mac OS 9.0. If the server administrator has checked the "Allow users to save password for automatic logon" checkbox, you will be able to save passwords in the keychain.
• The AppleShare Prep file is no longer used to store startup mounting information. Instead the information needed to mount a server volume at startup is stored in alias files in a special "Servers" folder in the System folder. Server aliases dropped on the active System folder will be automatically routed to this special folder. Password information is stored in the Keychain. This mechanism also works for other remote volume aliases made by other network filesystem clients such as DAVE from Thursby systems and NetWare Client 5.12 from Prosoft Engineering.
• NOTE: if you make heavy use of startup mounting and save your passwords in the AppleShare Prep file, you will either need to upgrade to Mac OS 9 or not install this client. Since the 3.8.5 client stores passwords in the keychain, unattended startup mounting will not work without the keychain.
• Improved performance over slow links (ASDL, ISDN, Modems).

• If you have problems Netbooting from Mac OS X servers be sure to install the Mac OS X Server update v1.0-2, available at http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n59005 >. The error message that most often comes up is "Unknown Error -908".
• If a password dialog comes up after double clicking on a volume in the Network Browser make sure that the password for the account is not empty. The volume mounting code does not work well with empty passwords.
• If you experience unexpected disconnects when mounting server volumes via TCP/IP, and you are using DHCP to obtain an IP address, there may be problems with the DHCP lease times. Look in the TCP/IP control panel for information about DHCP.
• If you have problems using AppleShare client software version 3.8 to connect to an AppleShare IP file server, use MacTCP Ping (available from Apple Computer) to make sure that you can ping the server computer. If you can't ping the server computer, there is a connectivity problem. Check the network cables and the configuration of the TCP/IP control panel.
• If you have TCP/IP set to use PPP to connect to a server and you open an alias to an AppleShare IP server (or any other server that supports AFP over TCP/IP), the AppleShare client software will try to connect using TCP/IP first before using AppleTalk. If you do not want this to happen, you can set PPP to not connect automatically when starting TCP/IP applications in the PPP (Remote Access) control panel.
• If a computer has Mac OS version 8.1 or earlier installed and a user connects to a volume on an AppleShare IP server using TCP/IP, AppleTalk must be active on the user's computer to make an alias to that volume.
• If the client machine running System 8.5 is hanging when accessing the server and the client machine is also running Virex v5.9, disable Virex using the Extensions Manager and contact Network Associates for an update to Virex v5.9.1.
• If the client machine hangs when writing to the server and the client machine is also running Norton AntiVirus 5.0, launch Norton AntiVirus and select "Turn Auto-Protect Off" from the Preferences menu. For Norton AntiVirus updates, please contact Symantec support.
• The AppleShare IP 5.0 and later Web & File Server uses a new set of access privileges based on combinations of the original access privileges (See Files, See Folders, and Make Changes). The new privileges are Read Only, Read & Write, Write Only, and None. When you connect to an AppleShare IP file server volume and choose Sharing from the Finder's File menu, the dialog box that appears displays the original AppleShare access privileges. If you use the dialog box to change a folder's privileges to a combination of privileges that is invalid on the AppleShare IP file server, the file server automatically applies the most secure access privilege that approximates the change. If you close the dialog box and choose Sharing again, the checkboxes that are checked may be different than the checkboxes that you checked earlier. Mac OS 8 Finder Sharing dialog box uses the AppleShare IP access privilege model.
• Microsoft Office Manager causes the AppleShare client version 3.7 to crash when you try to connect to an AppleShare file server. To correct this problem, install Office Manager Updater, available from Microsoft.
• Versions of the Novell NetWare User Authentication Modules prior to version 5.11 are incompatible with AppleShare client version 3.7 and later. Contact Novell for an update of the modules.
• Utilities that mount disk images from AppleShare file servers may have problems with the AppleShare client version 3.8.3. If you have problems, contact the developer for a new version of the utility. Apple Disk Copy version 6.3.1 or later is compatible with the new version of the AppleShare client software and is the only application for mounting disk images that Apple supports.
• If you are having problems mounting volumes when you start up your computer using a TCP/IP connection, try setting TCP/IP to always load using the TCP/IP Control Panel. If that doesn't work, try turning on virtual memory using the Memory control panel.
• If you are receiving "Server not responding" errors when connecting to the server using TCP over PPP, use the AppleShare Client Setup utility (available on the Apple Support Web site at www.apple.com/support) to increase the TCP Lookup timeout from 20 seconds to the time it takes the PPP link to connect plus 20 seconds.
• If the Chooser waits 2 minutes when you connect to a server using TCP, and ends up connecting with AppleTalk. Your server may not be accessible via TCP/IP, use the AppleShare Client Setup utility (available on the Apple Support Web site at www.apple.com/support/) to reduce the TCP Connect Timeout from 120 seconds to 20 seconds. Reducing the TCP Connect Timeout may make connecting to AppleShare servers over the Internet impossible.
• If you have an alias to a server that supports AFP over TCP/IP, and the server is behind a firewall that doesn't allow pings to go through, you will not be able to connect via the alias unless you use the AppleShare Client Setup utility (available on the Apple Support Web site at www.apple.com/support/) and disable the "Verify TCP Address with ping" checkbox in the Network panel.
• If you have a Global Village 56k Flex Modem card and you are using PPP version 1.0.1 to connect to your Internet service provider (ISP) using TCP/IP, you need to disable the modem software's menu bar status indicators or open PPP to connect to your ISP yourself, before using the Chooser to connect to an AppleShare file server over TCP/IP.
• If the Chooser hangs after you click the OK button in the volume dialog box, try disabling the Apple Menu Options control panel.