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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:22787 comp.os.386bsd.development:3066 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!willis.cis.uab.edu!news.lsu.edu!unix1.sncc.lsu.edu!unix1.sncc.lsu.edu!not-for-mail From: mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu (Matthew N. Dodd) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: SAMBA and NETWARE mounting Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.386bsd.development Date: 24 Jan 1995 22:35:39 -0600 Organization: Louisiana State University Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3g4ker$1n9c@tiger1.ocs.lsu.edu> References: <3eo2j1$l5o@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <D267uw.Grq@park.uvsc.edu> <D2JnoD.1DD@pe1chl.ampr.org> <D2KG6E.CMp@park.uvsc.edu> <D2LH48.3IF@pe1chl.ampr.org> <D2qACr.A46@park.uvsc.edu> <D2s16r.428@pe1chl.ampr.org> <D2vrE0.D8M@park.uvsc.edu> <D2x440.1J1@pe1c NNTP-Posting-Host: tiger1-t.ocs.lsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Rob Janssen (rob@pe1chl.ampr.org) wrote: : In <D2vrE0.D8M@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes: : >The MAIN advantage of IP is universality. : >The MAIN advantage of IPX is "well, we already bought into it". : Say, you want a network filesystem for your department, and it needs : to serve a number of DOS/Windows and similar workstations. It needs : some security (not against sniffers, but against accessing confidential : data at will), and it should perform reasonably well. Some memory : should be left in the PC after it has been loaded. : Also, there is a MODEM pool which is to be accessed from the PCs, and : of course there are some printers. : Access to other applications via the network is nice, but not the primary : reason for deploying the network. : What are you going to select? NFS clients on a UNIX server??? Come on... Hum... good point. But... : This is the way most installations go to Netware. Later on they might : think "IP would have been nice because..." but even then it is usually : not enough of an advantage to warrant a switch. I have a student Netware lab that has an Indigo2 in it for running Softimage. The packet drivers only take up 4k of ram and let students transfer images from the PC's to the SGI box. I have not implemented NFS on that net yet, but I may do so and unify user directories. : If you want to have people select IP as a basis for their PC network, : you should at least come up with something that is similar in functionality : to Netware, but provides some definite advantages. NFS is not going : to cut it. I think the solution is to use what works. There is a place for both, and in my case on the same machines, at the same time. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew N. Dodd Department of Computer Science mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu Louisiana State University