#Networking
Here is my recomendation.
Windows for Workgroups. Period. Hands down. It's the best peer-to-peer solution
for the network renderer. Some people say that 3DS runs slower under windows.
Maybe.But I run it under WFW, using it's 32bit disk/file access and see up to a
10% jump in performance. I'm still trying to see how that happens seeing how
3DS uses Pharlap.386!?! And other times I don't see it. You can run WFW net
from the command line. One Machine does have to be a server (Microsofts
supposedly serverless network!) but creating one is as simple and clicking a
button saying you want to share your files. Think about this.
If you go with Lantastic.
May be good for a couple of machines, are you planning to stay with a
couple of machines?
Not as stable, and why should you have to sync anything, should a good
network do this for you?
It works, but I do NOT recommend it.
If you go with NWLite.
Pretty good solution. $$ Per machine, small, easy to install, ect. ect.
ect.
How much do you know about Novell Netware? It's the natural progression
if you plan to expand!!! Do you know how much a CNE costs per hour?
If you go with WFW
Good soulution. $$ Per machine, VERY easy to install and configure.
What do use to create a custom bitmap? A windows or Dos app?
Do you know how to use windows?
WinNT Advanced Server is you progression if you go big time. Also
easier to install than Netware, and works alot better with windows than Nware
3.11 ect.
I'm telling you, I know from exp. I've done all types of networks.
Lantastic is perfect for your favorite cleaner and NetWare is just fine for an
accounting firm.
We're in the graphics buisness, and we're doing it on PC's. (uh…
Windows?)
Call Micrsoft and get a video on NT Advanced server and watch it. It'll
blow you away with possibilities.
I am NOT a CNE, MS solutions expert, or anything like that. I'm a
fellow animator who has worked as a tech for too many YEARS not to have an
opinion.