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From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes)
Subject: Re: SAMBA and NETWARE mounting
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Rob Janssen (rob@pe1chl.ampr.org) wrote:
: 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.

: 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.

Why not?  You're holding up NetWare files services as being superior to
NFS?  For what?  Network card testing?  NFS isn't necessarily the only
solution to file sharing over routeable networks, but it beats NetWare
hands down IMHO.  Moving from a UNIX development environment 4 months ago
to a *mostly* PC environment, and from NFS to NetWare, has been incredibly
frustrating.

NFS Users: Whaddya mean my home directory isn't on my machine?

NetWare Users: Oh, no, we don't actually use the network, except to store
stuff on.  We do *everything* on a local disk, and then copy it over there
because it's way to slow to *use*.

What a bunch of crap.

	Wes Peters