WE'RE USED TO SHARING PRINTERS and logging on to file servers, but SCSI peripherals such as scanners are usually single-user affairs. Stalker Software's SCSIShare puts these and other SCSI devices onto networks for all to see. Stalker retooled its first implementation of this technology, ScanShare, to use SCSI, rather than scanner, drivers and has thus expanded the range of devices you can reach.
SCSIShare is a control panel you install both on the Mac that's connected to a SCSI device you want to share and on the networked Macs that need access to the peripheral. Within the control panel, you set up which devices are to be shared and what the password for accessing each device will be. One of the Mac's seven SCSI-device addresses must be available to accommodate the shared device on the guest machine.
Remote Control. Remote users can access shared peripherals by creating virtual SCSI devices in SCSIShare. Once the shared device has been activated, network users can use it just as they would on a local Mac. If more than one person at a time tries to use a shared device, SCSIShare sends a "busy" notification to the second user.
Stalker recommends using SCSIShare on Ethernet networks, since LocalTalk is too slow for all but the smallest file transfers.
SCSIShare 2.0 (4 out of 5 mice) Very Good / Price: $89 (list). Company: Stalker Software, Mill Valley, CA; 800-262-4722 or 415-383-7164. Reader Service: Circle #417.
