Re: [WinMac] Performance of Windows 95/98 on ASIP6.*

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Mon, 03 Jan 2000 10:33:38 -0500

        Time for a new consulting firm.

        NT4/Server works just fine, thank you, as an AppleShare server. In fact,
it works better than either ASIP 6.x or OS-X Server, because NT uses NTFS
to store the two Mac file forks in a dual stream single file. And, NTFS =
Native Transactional File System... Neither HFS+ nor UFS provide journaling
file system support (although, surprisingly, BeOS does).

        If file transfer speed is what you want, I routinely get close to 8
megabytes per second on switched 100Base-TX ethernet using MacServer IP.
And this product, along with the competing ExtremeZ-IP, provide AFP over IP
support. In addition, MacServer IP also supplies NT cluster failover support.

        If you don't want to buy a third party AFP/IP product for NT4 (and they
work over NT/workstation as well), you can go with a basic Windows 2000
Server installation: It provides direct AppleShare IP 5.2 emulation.

        If you want to have printer use accounting, then you'll need to run
through an NT spooler, and then you can fully control access as well as use
printer accounting tools.

        Why not come to MacWorld in San Francisco and attend Professional
Conferences C23 - Mac-to-NT Administrator Concepts - at:
 <http://www.macworldexpo.com/mwsf2000/conference/pro/networking.html>, as
well as (the combined) C28/C30?!

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 08:21 AM 1/3/00 CDT, you wrote:
>I've been contacted by the director of a school being built. They are in
>temporary quarters now. They have about 200 iBooks and iMacs. Their
>consultants have recommended an NT server (which they haven't yet gotten to
>work as a Mac server) because the school will also be getting about an equal
>number of PCs for their higher grades.
>
>I have suggested that ASIP6 would be a much better choice as a server for the
>usual reasons. They said that there will be performance problems for the PCs
>using an Apple server (I think they mean both hardware and software).
>
>I scoured the archives of this list for some clues on the performance
issue. I
>wasn't able to find much except that NT does not currently support IP
>connections from Macs and that Macs perform better using ASIP6.
>
>Does anyone have any experience using PCs on ASIP6 using SMB? More to the
>point, has anyone come up with any performance comparisons?
>
>I'd appreciate any help on this - I'd really like to see them go with
ASIP6 to
>avoid spending many $ trying to support NT (and this consulting firm).
>
>Thanks!
>
>--
>Joe Kmoch Washington High School
>kmoch@whs.edu 2525 N. Sherman Blvd
>(414) 449-2765 (office) Milwaukee, WI 53210
>(414) 444-9250 (fax) (414) 444-9760 (gen school phone)

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