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ANS (Apple Network Server) IPT Demo uShare Software

aplmak

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As someone who worked at that company in the 90s, I can confirm that it is long gone. I talked with an engineer I know that worked there as well and we couldn't come up with some way to bypass it, neither of us worked on the key generation aspects. I tried but it was a loooong time ago.


You may be surprised to learn a rather large news publication in London had a half dozen Sparc servers running this software in the 90s for their pre-press workflow, as well as publications in Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands and Japan. I know, I got to work out of our UK office and support them all. However, never mainstream popular :)

I really wish I could help, but unfortunately as someone mentioned their investigation led them to obits... The last people to work on this project are no longer with us.

You may be better off seeing if there is another way to achieve the functionality you desire. Is it mainly the filesharing aspect? Maybe it can be accomplished with an SMB share? While that product did work well in the 90s I have no idea how it will work now and if anything breaks there is no one that can fix it.
Wow!! Sorry I wasn’t aware of the popularity. That’s amazing information!! It’s very sad they are no longer with us… we are all destined for that day! I just wish we knew a work around for this. Yes I am just trying to accomplish a file sharing server to put files on. I don’t really need the OPI portion and other features. I just need to obtain software to accomplish this running on AIX v 4.1.4 or 4.1.5 Any help is greatly appreciated! Looks like the key solution may have gone to the grave as well.. I’d like to at least keep the software alive and working to honor all the hard work these programmers put into developing it. This is a hobby and it’s not as if I’m using it for commercial applications or selling it. If you know something that I could install on AIX to be able to share folders through AppleTalk that would be excellent! Again you are all great and your responses are well appreciated.
 

aplmak

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If I can figure out how to change the hostid I think I can get one of the licenses working.. but how to do this.. AIX v4.1.5
 
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