HELIOS Announces PCShare Support for Windows 2003 Clients.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers GARBSEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 2003 HELIOS Software GmbH, a leading provider of network and prepress server software, announced that its PCShare server software now supports Microsoft Windows 2003 clients, in addition to: Windows XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98, 95, 3.1, and DOS clients. PCShare enables Windows Server 2003 systems to connect via SMB/CIFS to PCShare running on a UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Linux or MAC OS X server. The Windows Server 2003 systems can then take advantage of the high performance file and print server services provided by PCShare. PCShare used together with EtherShare allows tightly integrated cross-platform file and printer sharing An operational state in a computer that lets other users in the network copy files and use the printer. See file sharing. between Macintosh and Windows clients. PCShare 3.1 is compatible with all Windows applications and supports mounting of drives and printers via the Windows network browser. PCShare 3 is powerful and scalable-- from one to hundreds of nodes on simple LANs to complex Internets. Server features include SMB/CIFS, DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Software that automatically assigns temporary IP addresses to client stations logging into an IP network. It eliminates having to manually assign permanent "static" IP addresses. DHCP software runs in servers and routers. , WINS, WINS proxy, name service routing between network cards, and printing to local PC printers as well as printing to EtherShare queues. PCShare's built-in DHCP/BOOTP server allows administrators to automatically distribute TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. configuration to any Windows and Macintosh(R) client, and can dynamically update the DNS server with the workstation names of the Mac or Windows clients. Simple to install and use, PCShare's menu driven administration supports easy setup of users, groups, volumes, printers and DHCP from any PC or UNIX system on the network. PCShare 3.1 is available for a wide variety of UNIX-based systems including Apple's Mac OS X and Linux Pentium based servers. Macintosh clients are integrated on the same server via HELIOS EtherShare 3.1. Smart Ideas for Better Networking HELIOS products run on powerful and scalable servers including Apple Computer Mac OS X, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. and Tru64 UNIX, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. , Sun Solaris, and Linux on Pentium based systems. HELIOS products provide reliable cross-platform support for Macintosh, DOS/Windows and UNIX-based clients. Distributors sell HELIOS products worldwide to value-added resellers who provide complete networking solutions to customers. HELIOS also works with many strategic partners (http://www.helios.de/products/partners.html) that incorporate HELIOS server software to provide powerful third party archive, asset management and workflow solutions. HELIOS software products are also available as part of OEM solutions by many major vendors in the prepress industry. For U.S. Sales European MikroGraf Corp.: 916-923-3520; sales@ugraf.com; http://www.ugraf.com For Canadian Sales PreSource Corp.: 613-821-0832; sales@presource.net; http://www.presource.net For further editor information, please contact: HELIOS Software GmbH, Attn: marketing, Steinriede 3, D-30827 Garbsen, Germany; Fax +49 5131-709325; E-mail: marketing@helios.de; or Web access at http://www.helios.com. |
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