Re: [WinMac] Mac OSX Server review by ZDNET

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Fri, 28 May 1999 17:09:07 -0500

Daniel L. Schwartz wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Click on the link below, and follow along.
> <http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/firstlooks/0,6763,2262644,00.html>.

Astonishing...they did a fairer test than MacWorld did. My latest
MacWorld compared OSX to NT IIS, Linux and Sun Web servers...and the
test looked like a Microsoft ad for NT and IIS, as the others were all
pretty close, and IIS was way ahead.

Of course, the fine print said they tested NT using a 500 mhz
multi-processor PIII box, against a bunch of slower, single-processor
systems, so maybe it _was_ exactly like a Microsoft ad...

Might as well give up and call the rag PC Magazine II. (in another
article, comparing the iMac to a comparable Gateway system, they mark
the iMac down because the Gateway is more Windows compatible. :-0)

Also, to dispel a _lot_ of confusion and doubt out there, MacOSX does
indeed do Windows file service; it's just that it's a 3rd party add-on.

Called Samba. It costs nothing.

:-)

Quoted from the samba-list archives: 7-May-1999

"Yes, Samba compiles easily on MacOS X Server. The only real
modification is updating the config.guess and config.sub. I made a
binary installer of 2.0.3 and it is available on
next-ftp.peak.org/pub/apple/ ... somewhere.

I'm currently running pre-2.0.4 because of some NT client issues.

..Bill Chin "

The full url is:

ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/apple/macosx/server/Applications/Network/F
ileSharing/CLI/Samba/

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group


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