PCShare UB2
Highest-Performance Server for Windows Clients
HELIOS PCShare UB2 allows easy integration of powerful servers into Windows networks. It provides an extremely fast, reliable, feature-rich Windows compatible file and print server to unlock UNIX performance for Windows clients. It is well known for its reliability, performance, and ease-of-use.
Windows SMB/CIFS support ensures full compatibility with standard Windows programs, including multi-user applications, and excels in ease of use. Sharing files and printers is simple and straightforward because there is no additional software necessary for Windows clients. Windows NTFS Unicode and file streams support ensures compatibility with modern Windows applications. Mac meta data is accessible via SFM compatible streams. UNIX permissions and quotas are fully supported.
Windows Explorer Extensions allow managing UNIX file and folder permissions from the client. The HELIOS Meta extension enables adding, editing and viewing comments and color labels of files on HELIOS volumes or local disks. This data also is visible to Mac and WebShare clients. Fast Spotlight compatible searches finds file names, text content and metadata in PCShare volumes within seconds, via the HELIOS Index Server.
HELIOS Admin supports easy setup of users, groups, volumes, printers and server settings from Windows, Mac, or UNIX/Linux clients.
Authentication via LDAP, AD/PDC, NIS and local server users is fully supported by the HELIOS authentication server included in HELIOS Base.
PCShare scales well from small sites with only a few Windows clients to enterprise sites. Optional EtherShare and WebShare yield a true cross-platform solution. PCShare is tightly integrated with PDF HandShake, ImageServer and PrintPreview to serve the widest range of prepress needs.
HELIOS supports a variety of server platforms with equal feature sets, identical administration, and same release dates. This gives customers the flexibility to choose the right server for their needs budgets, and future plans.
Product Highlights
Server Installation
- Fast, menu-driven installation, easy installation for system administrators
Client Installation on Windows
- No installation necessary because PCShare is compatible with the Windows built-in networking software
- Installer for HELIOS extensions to Windows Explorer for Spotlight file searches, and setting file permissions, color labels, and comments via the file properties dialog
Server Administration
- Remote server administration from Windows, Mac and UNIX via HELIOS Admin
- Manages users, groups, volumes and printers, server settings and logs
- System & printer administrator groups
- Share volumes and printers
- Define DHCP server configuration
- Server auditing/monitoring support
- Additional WINS server or client configuration, workgroup/domain name and server name configuration
- TCP/IP access lists management
Security Options
File Services
- Windows Explorer context menu
- “Find file” tool on server and client
Server Features
- SMB/CIFS server offers Windows compatible file and printer sharing
- User authentication for local host users, LDAP, NIS, and Windows AD/PDC users via included authentication server in HELIOS Base
- Full file and record locking support
- Advanced file caching support using “oplocks”
- Windows NTFS file stream support
- Windows file/directory attributes:
Creation date, Hidden, System, Read-only and Archive are supported - UNIX permissions support
- Quota support
- Unicode volumes store all file names in 16-bit Unicode / UTF8 format. This allows the same file names to be used from UNIX, Windows, Mac and Web clients, including special characters
- Automatic name services routing between multiple network ports
- WINS client, server and WINS proxy
Print Services
DHCP Support
HELIOS Base benefits
Flexible Licensing Scheme
