![]() MultiCast Server includes a server component that uses TCP/IP multicasting to simultaneously broadcast an image to multiple PCs. Multicasting takes cloning one step further. Either method is acceptable for transferring an image file between two PCs or for cloning. Ghost's interface also lets you use a parallel port to make a peer-to-peer connection to another PC or NetBIOS running on an Ethernet or Token-Ring card. Version 6.0 supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Windows 2000 (Win2K) NTFS (nonencrypted), and Linux ext2. ![]() The software's easy-to-use graphical interface lets you copy an entire hard disk or individual partitions to another hard disk or to an image file. The Ghost 6.0 Enterprise Edition executable file, ghost.exe, runs in DOS. To build on the popularity of Norton Ghost, Symantec recently released Norton Ghost 6.0 Enterprise Edition, which includes Norton Ghost (Symantec's basic cloning tool), MultiCast Server, Norton Ghost Console, and several utilities (e.g., Ghost Walker 6.0). ![]() Since that time, competition among cloning software vendors has sparked attempts to improve on the basic cloning concept. I also remember my delight when I found a tool that let me create an image of one PC's configuration and copy the image to other machines. I remember the hours I spent configuring new PCs one by one. IT shops that haven't benefited from disk-cloning software are few and far between. Ghost's new enterprise features don't meet expectations
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