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Date:      Sat, 9 Mar 1996 10:54:08 +0000
From:      robmel@innotts.co.uk (Robin Melville)
To:        "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
Cc:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, questions@freebsd.org, Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
Subject:   Re: Need rpc.rlockd -- any chance of finding it?
Message-ID:  <v01530501ad6711c3bbe6@[194.176.128.198]>

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At 3:52 pm 8/3/96, Marty Leisner wrote:

>>... 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...

I use the Esker "TUN" TCP/IP products on our Windows Boxes which does integrate nicely. However, I bow to the assembled wisdom and will try Samba. 


>marty
>leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com  
>Member of the League for Programming Freedom

(If only it were easy to program freedom!) :)

Regards,

Robin.

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