From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 15:52:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA24041 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA24034 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:52:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14584(3)>; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:52:12 PST Received: from johngalt.mc.xerox.com (johngalt.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00613; Fri, 8 Mar 96 18:52:11 EST Received: by johngalt.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06651; Fri, 8 Mar 96 18:52:09 EST Message-Id: <9603082352.AA06651@johngalt.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: robmel@innotts.co.uk (Robin Melville) Cc: Michael Smith , questions@freebsd.org, Stephen Hovey Subject: Re: Need rpc.rlockd -- any chance of finding it? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Mar 1996 01:50:31 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:52:03 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Michael, > > Thanks for your blindingly rapid response to my query! > > At 11:38 am 8/3/96, Michael Smith wrote: > >Robin Melville stands accused of saying: > >... > >There are two answers here : > > > >The first is : Abandon NFS for your PCs (and if possible, Macs as well). > >I would _strongly_ advise experimenting with the 'samba' package that's > >in the ports collection. This will provide markedly superior performance, > >and as a side effect, get around the original problem. > > Interesting idea, but I'm reluctant to move to multi-protocol networking. We need TCP/IP for SQL client/server work. NFS seems an elegant solution to file sharing too, and works cheerfully and quickly in its current implementation (on the SCO box). > I think I agree..samba is RFC1001 (IP) based, so why is it "multi-protocol?" Lan-manager integrates nicely in with windows...I don't think nfs is so clean... > -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom