Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:47:35 -0700 (MST) From: chad@anasazi.com (Chad R. Larson) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: chad@anasazi.com, 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: <9704142347.AA15379@chad.anasazi.com> In-Reply-To: <199704141834.EAA29528@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 15, 97 04:04:13 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? I stand corrected. I was confusing SAMBA with NETBUI. As long as your Win95 is bound to the TCP/IP stack (and only the TCP/IP stack) the majority of the traffic will not be broadcast. There will still be a bunch of broadcast IP traffic, as the machines announce themselves to be discovered in the neighborhood, but that is neither a function of SAMBA nor a major problem. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-870-3330 chad@anasazi.com chad@anasaz.UUCP chad@dcfinc.com Anasazi, Inc. - 7500 North Dreamy Draw Drive, Suite 120, Phoenix, Az 85020
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