From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 2 09:45:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA02605 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 09:45:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mb06.swip.net (mb06.swip.net [193.12.122.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA02593 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 09:44:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lf@get2net.dk) From: lf@get2net.dk Received: from germs_client (port23.pulje101.get2net.dk [195.82.192.23]) by mb06.swip.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA02546 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 18:44:22 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 97 18:32:04 +0100 Subject: NFS vs. NT Client! To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Chameleon ATX 6.0.1, Standards Based IntraNet Solutions, NetManage Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there, I am using a FreeBSD machine as an NFS server, and the server seems to running quite smoothly. But the write performance from Windows NT client (using ChameleonNFS) is *very* poor - but reading from the NFS drives is no problem. I have read in the mailing-list archives that this is a wellknown problem - although I didn't really see any solutions for the problem? A strange thing is, that if I connect to the NFS server using a FreeBSD client, I have both fast reads and writes. Besides the slow write performance from Windows NT, I have another question, I can't seem to 'browse' the NFS 'shares' - only if I mount them (which may be quite logical). But this is a problem when I try to stream something from a DAT tape, directly to an NFS mount, since the backup software (ArcServe and BackupExec) can't use network mapped drive letters, the software only supports network addresses like \\servername\nfsmount .. Is there anyway to get around this? By the way, both machines use 3C900 ethernet cards, on a BNC based network. Thanks, Lars