Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 12:39:23 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: kevin@NDA.COM (Kevin Lyda) Cc: dennis@etinc.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: (SMB/Netware/NFS for DOS clients) (was BSD/OS ...) Message-ID: <199606180309.MAA22180@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199606171958.PAA26484@nda.nda.com> from "Kevin Lyda" at Jun 17, 96 03:58:49 pm
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Kevin Lyda stands accused of saying: > > > True, however BSD is marketing themselves as an internet gateway, where > > NFS is not as important. And now that FreeBSD has a Netware compatible > > server available....the option to dump NFS (which I really dont want to use > > on my Windows workstations anyways) is more than viable. The Netware > > stuff (although not free) is a lot nicer (and faster) than NFS. > > how can you justify that? is netware an inherently faster protocol > than nfs? or is this just an implementation issue? Terry's covered most of the technical issues already. It's worth bearing in mind that his bias is slightly more Netware-wards. If you're looking for a fileserving solution for FreeBSD that will work well with DOS and DOS-derived clients, either the commercial Netware server pointed out by Jordan a while back or Samba are much better choices than NFS, because the protocols they speak are more suited to the clients. Personally I can't see any reason for using Netware over Samba in a small to medium-sized environment; it's performance is very good and it's much cheaper 8) (I expect the admin tools for the NetCon server are much better however). > kevin -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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