Hello,
I hope someone still remembers AppleShare 3.0. I am trying to keep a LAN of 15 LCII's using a Quad 950 server running in a school lab.
I can start up the server, start AppleShare file serving, then start up the stations, and access the programs I want from the server. But, the server will drop the connection after a time with the message, "The server has unexpectedly dropped the connection." And I cannot get the connection back without shutting everything off and restarting from scratch. Even then I sometimes have to go through the process a few times.
The net is small coax ethernet, CS NIC cards with BNC connectors daisy chained. Yes, terminated both ends.
All LCII's are using 10 MB of memory and have OS7.5.5 installed. The server has 40 MB RAM, big old Seagate 5.25" HD and OS8.1. The server has AppleShare 3.0 installed.
Any suggestions about this problem, hardware or software? I've got the manuals for AppleShare.
I used AS 3.0 on a IIci, C650 and WGS 80 for a couple of years. I never had recurrent problems with machines dropping off. My best guess is you're having a problem with the 10Base2 network. I'd suggest trying to split the network in halfand terminate the half still connected to the server. If the problem persists then that segment has the problem. Continue on till you can isolate the problem. Try using a network utility to continuously monitor the connection to the server.
A better solution is to go to 10BaseT. If all or most of the machines have 10BaseT ports you can switch over fairly cheaply.
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Clark Martin
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