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If you have only 10 Macs together, you may try to use the System 7.5/7.6 FileSharing features of your PowerMac 7200. You will maybe see a performance increase with (FileSharing on PowerPC) compared to (AppleShare on 68K) [but I doubt].<br />

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If you have only 10 Macs together, you may try to use the System 7.5/7.6 FileSharing features of your PowerMac 7200. You will maybe see a performance increase with (FileSharing on PowerPC) compared to (AppleShare on 68K) [but I doubt].


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We are currently using an old LC 475 server running appleshare fileserver 3.0.3 and want to use a powermac 7200 as our server but to upgrade to appleshare filserver 4.2.1 costs over $1000! we are a non-profit organization with a small network of 10 machines and can't afford the full price. Is there any way to rig the powermac to work as a fileserver without the latest software??? <br />
We are thinking of trying to get by just using filesharing and i've found a shareware control panel called powershare that allows you to designate how much CPU time is devoted to filesharing. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any idea how it will work out or problems i might encounter?<br />
Thanks for your help!<br />
-Laura
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We are currently using an old LC 475 server running appleshare fileserver 3.0.3 and want to use a powermac 7200 as our server but to upgrade to appleshare filserver 4.2.1 costs over $1000! we are a non-profit organization with a small network of 10 machines and can't afford the full price. Is there any way to rig the powermac to work as a fileserver without the latest software??? 
We are thinking of trying to get by just using filesharing and i've found a shareware control panel called powershare that allows you to designate how much CPU time is devoted to filesharing. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any idea how it will work out or problems i might encounter?
Thanks for your help!
-Laura

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