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THE ADVENT OF WINDOWS 95 with its builtin networking has made the workgroup and small office network a reality. However, even with local hard drives on workstations hitting 6 Gbytes, often there is not enough space for one machine to be the "server" where all the shared files reside. To make the installation of networkavailable drive space as easy and painless as possible, JES has released the NetRaptor.
The NetRaptor is basically a hard drive with a network card and some memory in a box. It is available in a variety of hard drive sizes and supports access via TCP/IP. The drive can be accessed from any Windows 95/NT machine that has TCP/IIP or a Unix system using NFS.
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Setup of the NetRaptor could not be easier, requiring only plugging in the network cable, the power cord and the supplied SCSI-3 terminator. If using DHCP, the unit works at this point. Otherwise, the...