28 Mar
1999
28 Mar
'99
1:15 p.m.
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Clark Shishido wrote:
Of course you need a UNIX server and NFS volumes for this to work.
I don't think I sent my reply to this to the group so I'll just re-mail the essence of my utterance.
You'll also need to plan to potentially double your network capacity if most of the boxes you use are Macs. You'll be sending twice as much traffic (more or less without cachefs) over the network for every operation by a Mac.
We have a similar scenario set up for accessing data via SMB from NACs. I'm trying to convince my company to use CIFS with DFS and skip the middle man, but I think it's falling on deaf ears. I've used DFS someplace else with success. OTOH, we have a much larger environment here.
Tom