Re: [WinMac] Re: DAVE & TCP/IP vs SFM

Michael Bartosh(bartosh[at]tamu.edu)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 09:39:39 -0600

> Michael Kulyk @ MACSPECTRUM wrote:
>>
>> I did some testing at a client where we installed DAVE. They can
>> create PostScript files on
>> the server about 2.5 times faster using DAVE and TCP/IP to mount
>> the server volume as opposed to
>> AppleTalk/AppleShare and SFM.
>>
>> Let us not be too harsh on sysadmins.
>> Remeber,
>> 1. they never get a date
>> 2. they still love Kirk from the original Star Trek
>> 3. they consider burritos a food group
>
> Hey, first, my wife would object to the date thing, second, maybe not
> Kirk...but Yeoman Rand?? Ooo la-la! And whattya mean burritos aren't a food
> group!!! They're right here on my chart, next to beer! ;-P
>
> Finally, with luck, NT5, if it ever comes out, will address that problem by
> incorporating ASIP. AppleTalk was really never meant to be anything but a
> small workgroup protocol...the wonder isn't that it doesn';t work so well in
> enterprise networks, but that it does work. There has NEVER been an easier
> network to set up...Win/netbeui comes close, but it's still not so well
> integrated into the OS. IMO.

Netatalk is entirely supirior in ease of setup. The conf file is
EASY, and there are no dual-level permissions... if you set the
permissions onece in the OS (linux, bsd, whatever) and netatalk uses
those permissions.

Pretty cool.

-mab

>
> BTW, has anyone here have experience running netatalk or cap in IP mode? how
> is it to set up, on a scale of, saaaay, samba to sendmail? (I know, I know,
> that's an exponential function!) How is it performance wise? is it a resource
> hog? (samba is, kinda...we're using it to mount people's home
> directories...it
> eats about 1-3mb of memory/attached user, which means LOTS of
> memory eaten up.)
>
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