Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:17:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: terry@lambert.org, kevin@NDA.COM, dennis@etinc.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDI 2.0 vs. FreeBSD 2.x Message-ID: <199606181817.LAA10789@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960617231357.27483A-100000@covina.lightside.com> from "Jake Hamby" at Jun 17, 96 11:22:00 pm
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> > So, in general, NetWare is faster to DOS clients, but it's DOS's > > fault, not that of the server, and much of the problem is correctable, > > though there's little short term economic incentive to actually > > do the correction. > > So what do you think of Hummingbird's Maestro NFS client (and server) for > Windows NT? The sales material says it's a "multithreaded kernel mode > NFS". It also comes with a bunch of generic Internet apps (telnet, FTP, > etc..). I remember one of the networking magazines actually benchmarked NT NFS implementations, using FreeBSD's implementation as the "figure of merit" to beat. They all fell short. I don't know if Hummingbird's code was tested or not. I'm pretty sure Jordan Hubbard (jkh@freebsd.org) has the press clippings. If noting else, it will let you get a side-by-side for a bunch of NT NFS's. > Soon we will be planning to buy an UltraSPARC Enterprise Server for a > satellite data collection system, and we also need to support about a > dozen Windows NT boxes for typical office applications. Would it be better > to run something like Hummingbird Maestro on them, or put a Netware or > SAMBA fileserver on the UltraSPARC? Since the UltraSPARC will have > redundant CPU's and a giant RAID array anyway, I'd feel more comfortable > putting ALL of our data in the same place, where it can be backed up from > the same tape drive, and protected by the same RAID, rather than buying a > separate Windows NT server box. Right? I don't know if the real NetWare for UNIX code was ever released for the SPARC, or if Sun stayed with an OEM version of Puzzle Systems code. If it isn't a Novell OEM, then you would probably be better off going with the Samba, if you picked the SPARC, since you would need to copy files from a real (legally licensed) NetWare server for login, nlist, slist, etc., etc.. I know some people have had problems with remote backup of DOS servers, but most of those have been NetWare servers, so there might be a soloution that would let you do the NT machine without much trouble. If the RAID is level 5, then there's no doubt in my mind: use the most recent Samba with the NT switches on for NT password authentication. You will need to have users that are both UNIX and NT users set another password because of the way the NT client code works, but we have a similar setup at work that has been reliable. The password setting isn't too inconvenient if you don't force frequent changes. Hope this helps. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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