Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 04:04:13 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: chad@anasazi.com Cc: richard@pegasus.com, rmike@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS: Problem with portmap (fwd) Message-ID: <199704141834.EAA29528@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9704141805.AA14898@chad.anasazi.com> from "Chad R. Larson" at "Apr 14, 97 11:05:07 am"
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Chad R. Larson stands accused of saying: > > Check into Samba, (cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD/packages*/All/samba*) it takes > > up less space on the pc and works quite well. > > > > I've used pcnfs a lot in the past, but I prefer Samba. > > It works ok on a small network, but since all data is sent as broadcast > packets you wouldn't want to use it on a net with many machines, or over > a WAN, or anywhere you paid a per-packet fee (X.25?). Uhh, where exactly did you get the idea that Samba uses "broadcast" packets? You haven't been listening to a Sun salesdroid raving about WebNFS now have you? > Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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