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- From: Saeedi@cup.portal.com (Steven J Saeedi)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: File Sharing Broken?
- Message-ID: <65012@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 12:07:48 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: usa
- References: <64954@cup.portal.com> <1051@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Lines: 76
-
- >Saeedi@cup.portal.com (Steven J Saeedi) writes:
- >
- >>Hello all,
- >
- >>I have recently installed A/UX 3.0 on an fx in a network
- >>involving Un*x based and NetWare based servers. We have
- >>the NetWare servers routing the AFP protocols from LocalTalk
- >>to 10-Base-T (Ethernet).
- >
- >>The A/UX machine is acting as a AppleShare server using
- >>the file Sharing Extension in System 7.0.1. The problem
- >>I'm experiencing is that the A/UX machine is EXTREMELY slow
- >>when it comes to file sharing. It takes about 10 minutes to
- >>copy a 10K file from a Mac on LocalTalk to the fx on Ethernet.
- >>The NetWare servers on Ethernet are much faster.
- >
- >If the entire "/" is enabled for sharing, then A/UX will be _very_
- >slow... this is even mentioned in the Installation ReadMe file.
-
- Well, the problem is that I'm not sharing "/" at all. Let me try
- to clarify my situation
-
- |----------| |<-Ethernet |<-LocalTalk
- | Mac IIfx | | |
- | |----| |
- | A/UX 3.0 | | |---------| |
- | Sharing | | | NetWare | |
- | /users | | | | |
- |----------| |-----| Mac NLM |-------|
- | |AT Router| | |------------|
- |----------| | |---------| | | Mac SE/30 |
- | NetWare | | |-----| |
- | | | | |System 7.0.1|
- | NFS NLM |----| | |File Sharing|
- | Mac NLM | | | |------------|
- |----------| | |
-
- I am running System 7 on A/UX. I try to log into the SE/30
- from the chooser, and it sits there forever until I break the
- connection. I try to log into the NetWare running NFS as a
- Mac client using the chooser and I sit there forever until
- I break the connection.
-
- On the SE/30, I try to log into the A/UX machine (IIfx) from
- the chooser and it takes a long time, but I get connected
- eventually and then it takes forever to transfer a file. From
- the SE/30 I log into the NetWare server running NFS as a Mac
- client from the SE/30 chooser and I am connected immediately.
-
- On the A/UX machine, I mount a NetWare volume using NFS and it
- is immediately mounted. File transfer is very fast. I ftp
- to the NetWare server and I get immediate response.
-
- This tells me that the NetWare server is routing AFP protocols
- properly, because I can log into the NFS NetWare server from the
- SE/30. The ethernet connection works fine on the fx because I
- can get decent performance when using it in Unix.
-
- I am dumbfounded as to what is going on. I think that filesharing
- is somewhat broken, especially on an fx. I have reinstalled three
- times already and the environment is pretty much virgin, except for
- the hosts, networks, export files.
-
- If you have any other ideas, I'll be very interested to hear about
- them.
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- -- Steve Saeedi
- saeedi@cup.portal.com
- >--
- > Jim Jagielski | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
- > jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov | Let's not bicker and argue about who
- > NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4 | killed who."
-
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