Re: Looking for Mac utilities for WinNT Server

Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:48:39 -0400

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From: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
[mailto:winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Roth
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 9:48 AM
To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
Subject: Re: Looking for Mac utilities for WinNT Server
>From: Robert Simons
>The big plus for DAVE is that it allows a Mac to access the NT without
>AppleTalk. So the NT Server DOES NOT have to run Services For
Macintosh.
>It simplifies management of volumes and privileges. Also, DAVE bypasses
>the bottlenecks of AppleTalk. Performance is better. It seems pretty
>well integrated into the MacOS and you don't have to change anything on
>your existing NT servers to add Mac clients.
>If you looked at DAVE version 1.0, go back and look at 2.0. They seem
to
>have cleaned up the interface and installation.

I will take a second look at DAVE. I don't know which version I was
looking at. Thanks to all who replied to my question about DAVE. I see
there are many DAVE fans out there.
We have already installed Services for Macintosh of course and will
continue to use it. We have many AppleTalk connected printers.
>PS: I'm not using DAVE because in previous versions I found a few
>quirks, but I am in the process of re-evaluating DAVE 2.0. NetDoublerNT
>is another option for performance gains, but it requires an addition to
>the NT server and the Mac clients!

We are using NetDoubler now (www.asante.com) and really are impressed
with it's performance. Not a lot better on a 10Mbps ethernet card but
on a 100Mbps card it's awesome! Latest version for the NT Server is
1.5.1 and I just received from their tech support department last week
version 1.5.2 for the Macs.
NetDoubler essentially encapsulates AppleTalk packets inside IP packets
for faster throughput all invisible to the user of course. So you have
to have TCP/IP available for best performance although you can use ADSP
protocol. A free demo is available on their web site.

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 Tom Roth Wake Forest University School of Medicine
 tomroth@wfubmc.edu Dept of Biomedical Communications
 Tel 336.716.4493 Medical Center Blvd
 Fax 336.716.2808 Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
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