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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?

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