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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Subject: Re: SAMBA and NETWARE mounting
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 18:45:45 GMT
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blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) wrote:
] I don't think that the routability is the problem.  From what I
] understand Novell tries to discover network services rather than
] using "well known" port numbers which means that you have a lot of
] network traffic that is going around just maintaining the list of
] services available.  This can cause real problems over a WAN where
] your inter-site bandwidth may be limited.

Precisely.

A "server" is advertised for each service offered by a file server.

Double this for both SAP + NDIS running simultaneously.


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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