Hello People,
Apparently I have never understood the concept of an netapp filer, but this is what an HP guy is trying to tell me: "NetApps Filers can't share files between NT and Unix *simultaneously*."
What could he have meant ?
cheers,
Jan
but this is what an HP guy is trying to tell me: "NetApps Filers can't share files between NT and Unix *simultaneously*."
Would you mind sending me this HP guys name and number? Tell him that our site is using HP workstation (HP-UX) (Digital also for that matter) and NT to share files just fine from NetApp, thank you. Or better, tell him that ignorance is NO excuse.
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From: "Schepers, Jan" Jan.Schepers@nl.origin-it.com Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:39:35 +0100 Subject: Sharing files between NT and Unix To: "'toasters@mathworks.com'" toasters@mathworks.com
Hello People,
Apparently I have never understood the concept of an netapp filer, but this is what an HP guy is trying to tell me: "NetApps Filers can't share files between NT and Unix *simultaneously*."
What could he have meant ?
cheers,
Jan
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---philip thomas
Apparently I have never understood the concept of an netapp filer, but this is what an HP guy is trying to tell me: "NetApps Filers can't share files between NT and Unix *simultaneously*."
What could he have meant ?
Jan
He meant he wanted to sell you an HP server with an HP storage solution. Maybe even sell you one for the UNIX side and another for the NT side.
-Michael Cerda
He might have been making some reference to file locking. Check out
http://now.netapp.com/knowledge/docs/ontap/51html/sag/sag-ci16.htm
for the Reader's Digest Condensed Version of oplocks under CIFS. Other than that, I don't know what he's referring to.
"Schepers, Jan" wrote:
"NetApps Filers can't share files between NT and Unix *simultaneously*."
I do it every day!
It should be noted that the exact same file can't be opened at the exact same time (ie. you can't "cat" a file in unix at the exact moment MS-Word is reading the file). This is because MS-Word locks the file! So, if you find a product that WILl "cat" the file while MS-Word is using it, it sounds like they aren't implementing any locking! Ouch!
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