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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:22912 comp.os.386bsd.development:3086 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!hookup!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Re: SAMBA and NETWARE mounting Message-ID: <D33Jw6.D41@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (Darin Wayrynen) Organization: the briney, briney deep Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 03:48:05 GMT References: <3eo2j1$l5o@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <D267uw.Grq@park.uvsc.edu> <D2JnoD.1DD@pe1chl.ampr.org> <D2KG6E.CMp@park.uvsc.edu> <D2LH48.3IF@pe1chl.ampr.org> <D2qACr.A46@park.uvsc.edu> <D2s16r.428@pe1chl.ampr.org> <D2vrE0.D8M@park.uvsc.edu> <D2x440.1J1@pe1chl.ampr.org> <D2y5tv.JAC@indirect.com> <D30Ap1.2tt@pe1chl.ampr.org> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.386bsd.development Lines: 33 In <D2y5tv.JAC@indirect.com> wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) writes: > NetWare Users: Oh, no, we don't actually use the network, except to store > stuff on. We do *everything* on a local disk, and then copy it over there > because it's way to slow to *use*. Rob Janssen (rob@pe1chl.ampr.org) wrote: : You must have made serious configuration errors. In all tests I have done : and seen, Netware was much faster than PCNFS. No, no, not "PC" NFS, just real, live NFS. Of course, my current employer sells NFS for DOS, but I haven't really looked at it that much. I thought I was reading this in comp.os.386bsd or comp.os.linux?? Oh, I am. Thank God! I thought I'd lost my mind for a minute! : There certainly are problems with Netware. But please point to an alternative : that has significantly less problems... : There is a lot of network traffic, but certainly not more than with NFS. Cetainly YES more than with NFS. Eliminating SAP is a great start. NFS is less verbose in several other critical operations as well. The difference in network traffic would depend greatly on access patterns, such as do you use lots of little files, or a few large files, and how deep your directory structures are, but the last time I looked, the NetWare protocols looked much more "chatty" than evil old NFS. Comments, Terry? You'd know more about this than anyone else, probably on the planet. ;^) Wes Peters