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- From: wdburns@walker2.hu.mtu.edu (BURNS)
- Subject: Re: NFS for Mac
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.223233.16508@mtu.edu>
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- Organization: CCLI Macintosh Lab, Michigan Tech University
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:32:33 GMT
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- At my lab here, I just got done reviewing those packages. We currently have
- a GatorBox (from Cayman systems) that is doing our Mac <-> NFS translation
- and we were thinking of getting something that was just as good looking,
- but lightening fast.
-
- Well, we're sticking with our GatorBox for a few reasons. But that's
- not important here...here's what I thought about NFS/Share and Client NFS.
-
- NFS/Share from InterCon was a slick little program. Once installed (it was
- a bit finicky at first, until we REALLY read the docs) it was very fast and
- seemed to work very well...the only problem we had with it was when we tried
- sending mail from Eudora. For some reason it kept making blank entries in
- our mail OUTbox which confused Eudora to no end. Other than that, file
- transfers went very zippy. We didn't like the fact that you could see all
- you Unix "dot" files.
-
- Client from Wollongong (cool company name) was a bit of a disappointment.
- It was claimed by them to be faster than NFS/Share...it wasn't. At one time
- it took it 3-1/2 minutes to mount my home directory which wasn't very big.
- Also, this program operates as a Control Panel Device, not a chooser
- resource...so it's not as intuitive as NFS/Share.
-
- *WE* didn't choose these programs because I administer a 500 user lab with
- 30 or so Macs...every user needs their own home drive, any class-use drives,
- and several public drives. There was NO EASY way for me to setup a
- generic set of drives that would be available from a pop-up list once you
- login to the server (like you can when using a GatorBox, and like you
- *almost* can with NFS/Share). Each user would have to know the
- Unix mount-point to these directories/drives...ick! What an admin. nitemare!
-
- For a joe-user in his own office, I'd go with NFS/Share...it was cool.
-
- Well, that's my nine cent's worth. I ordered demo copies of them, tested
- them, and those were my findings.
-
- Bill
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