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We have a fileserver (an SE with 2 meg) that is running Appleshare file 
server and print server (v. 2.0). It gets backed up each night by the 
computer department and we get charged x dollars/MB. Our network has 
15 Macs (SE's,LC,CX,FX,SE/30 - some running system 7 others running 
6.0.7), and 3 laser printers.

What we would like to do is upgrade to version 3.0 of Appleshare and 
put a compressor on the file server (I had More Disk Space in mind). 
This would reduce the cost of our backups and/or give us more disk 
space. Here are my questions:

1. Do we need to upgrade to Appleshare 3.0 to use a compressor?

2. How does Appleshare 3.0 stop people from physically using the file server 
to accessing any file/folder on the hard drives? (My understanding is that 
the server is just another program running on the mac, so would the volumes 
be accessible by switching to the finder?)

3. Do we need to upgrade the memory in the SE to 4 megs?

4. Will More Disk Space work on a file server? with 4 physical volumes?

5. Will system 6 macs be able to "interpret" the compressed files?

6. Do you have a different/better idea that isn't expensive?

Thanks,
Bob Ruf
University of Saskatchewan
ruf@admin.usask.ca