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- From: andrew@cubetech.com
- Subject: Re: NetWare Gurus
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.194500.8863@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov6.231744.6229@almserv.uucp> <1992Nov8.052811.16256@cubetech.com> <BxF2r2.HJ0@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:45:00 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <BxF2r2.HJ0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam) writes:
- >andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Nov6.231744.6229@almserv.uucp> rmcghee@fnma.com writes:
- >>>Hey NetWare Gurus,
- >>>
- >>>I just set up a Novell server but access from a NeXT is sooooo slow it is
- >>>not usable. Any known problems? Any idiot checks? The automount takes
- >>>literally about 30 seconds and subsequent acccesses do not get any better.
- >>>All help is greatly appreciated.
- >
- >>The autoNetWareMounter is a dog. The client isn't so bad when you are
- >>doing big reads or writes, but browsing around the NetWare file-system
- >>is painful. It shouldn't be that way.
- >
- >You could always get Netware NFS. It's fast!!!! So fast, it'll rumble!
- >Even a TurboNeXT can't keep up without slowing Netware server down. I've
- >got a SPARC 10 which got chewed up by a 386/33 EISA server, before the
- >slow-down patch was installed.
- >
- >Then you could just mount the Netware server..
-
- Yeah, we've got NetWare NFS and NetWare for Macintosh (try mounting
- the NetWare server over AppleTalk on your NeXT - it's a trip).
- NetWare NFS is pretty expensive, so getting it (if you don't already
- have it) just to hook up a bunch if NeXT's is probably not worth it.
-
- NetWare kicks ass!
-
-
- andrew
-