From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 14 16:48:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA25017 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:48:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.anasazi.com (mailhost.anasazi.com [138.113.128.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA24988 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:48:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chad.anasazi.com by mailhost.anasazi.com (5.65/3.7) id AA07415; Mon, 14 Apr 97 16:47:39 -0700 Received: by chad.anasazi.com (5.65/3.7) id AA15379; Mon, 14 Apr 97 16:47:36 -0700 From: chad@anasazi.com (Chad R. Larson) Message-Id: <9704142347.AA15379@chad.anasazi.com> Subject: Re: NFS: Problem with portmap (fwd) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:47:35 -0700 (MST) Cc: chad@anasazi.com, richard@pegasus.com, rmike@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704141834.EAA29528@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 15, 97 04:04:13 am Reply-To: chad@anasazi.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Chad R. Larson stands accused of saying: >>> Check into Samba, (cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD/packages*/All/samba*) it takes >>> up less space on the pc and works quite well. >>> >>> I've used pcnfs a lot in the past, but I prefer Samba. >> >> It works ok on a small network, but since all data is sent as broadcast >> packets you wouldn't want to use it on a net with many machines, or over >> a WAN, or anywhere you paid a per-packet fee (X.25?). > > Uhh, where exactly did you get the idea that Samba uses "broadcast" packets? > > You haven't been listening to a Sun salesdroid raving about WebNFS now > have you? I stand corrected. I was confusing SAMBA with NETBUI. As long as your Win95 is bound to the TCP/IP stack (and only the TCP/IP stack) the majority of the traffic will not be broadcast. There will still be a bunch of broadcast IP traffic, as the machines announce themselves to be discovered in the neighborhood, but that is neither a function of SAMBA nor a major problem. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-870-3330 chad@anasazi.com chad@anasaz.UUCP chad@dcfinc.com Anasazi, Inc. - 7500 North Dreamy Draw Drive, Suite 120, Phoenix, Az 85020