At 01:25 pm 3/10/99 -0500, Will Harper wrote:
I can't answer your question directly, but I have "heard" that CIFS is a problem. It works ok, when it is working, but when it hiccups, it is not easily corrected. When a CIFS connection is broken, it stays broken.
A vendor's engineer (Auspex) told me that he had found that an NFS client on NT actually provided better end results for all of the H-A storage systems that he had worked with. He suggested Samba or Hummingbird.
NFS,
he explained, keeps trying to reconnect until you fix the problem, and
then
NFS fixes itself.
Samba? Samba is a CIFS server.
As Dave Hitz pointed out, there are tradeoffs with the various protocols, but with a Netapp box you can use whichever suits your needs best.
Mark Muhlestein -- mmm@netapp.com
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Mark Muhlestein