Re: NT versus Appleshare servers
Paul Williams(paul.williams[at]ecm.emap.com)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 20:37:06 +0200
Two things (well, three):
>Except for two things: (1) last I saw, Mac clients and Windows clients
>couldn't share the same directory;
This is patently not true. I have proof -right here- on my desktop!
>(2) AFP speed under NT is TERRIBLE.
I wouldn't say it was *terrible*. In fact, it appears to be better than our
AIX Riproserver, besides the AppleShare 4.0 box we have. But all of this is
so much chaff, as you said yourself,
>I don't see this as a disadvantage at all. Appleshare servers are designed
>as departmental servers, not enterprise servers, and if you want to share
>users and groups, that's pretty easy.
Absolutely. At this site, we have one *giant* multiprocessor NT box,
serving around 100 clients (80% MacOS and 20% WinNT). At a sister site, the
Systems Manager is adamant that he's rolling it all back to G3 Servers and
AppleShare IP (having had more trouble with NT than he can stand). The
point is, he's deploying the G3 boxes as local "workgroup" servers because
he thinks that serves each workgroup best (these are magazine teams, so
they are practically independent of each other): The company email, DNS etc
will *still* reside on an NT server -he's just not trusting the editorial
workflow to NT boxes. Having spent the best part of a week reconstructing
an NT server that "went south", I wish I had the budget to do the same
thing...
Paul Williams
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