Re: NT versus Appleshare servers
Darryl Lee(lee[at]darryl.com)
Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:01:48 +0200
Peter C.S. Adams <mailto:peter.adams@umb.edu> wrote:
[Matt Harris argued for NT Server over AppleShare]
> Except for two things: (1) last I saw, Mac clients and Windows clients
> couldn't share the same directory on an NT server;
Bzzt. They can, and do. You just have to share them twice: once for
Windows clients, and once for Mac clients. But they _both_ can share.
Concurrently, even. (i _think_ it gets the file locks right.)
> and (2) AFP speed from NT Services for Mac is TERRIBLE -- Appleshare
> 4 is faster on a low-end server! Since the original post came from
> a guy with something like 30 Macs and 5 PCs, he should get something
> that serves the Macs better than an NT server. Currently, you do
> need to add client software to the NT machines to access Appleshare
> IP 5; this will be remedied in Appleshare IP 6 (see
> http://www.apple.com/appleshareip/ for details).
*Yawn*... Hasn't _somebody_ done some benchmarking on this? Hey
look, MacWorld, in Nov. 1997, found that AppleShare IP 5.0 is _SLOWER_
than Windows NT:
http://macworld.zdnet.com/pages/articlelinks/14.11.appleshareip.speed.gif
Full review is at:
http://macworld.zdnet.com/ns-search/pages_collection/november.97/Reviews.3994.ht
ml?NS-search-set=/35ad0/aaaa003Mxad0710&NS-doc-offset=0&
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