NT talking to SGI
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hi all!
the good news:
My systems administrator and I (but mainly him) managed to get NT 3.51 talking
to our file server (an SGI ChallengeS) and set up drive letter for its drives.
This is very cool. We used a freeware software called "Samba" which was
recommended by John Foust, I think. This also means that we could probably set
up machines all over the company as drive letters, but there are so many we'd
probably exceed the number of drive letters. We can use FTP for this, so no big
deal.
the bad news:
the response time in seeing directories show up is veeeerrrry slow. In fact,
painfully slow. If you click on the directory you want to see, it might take up
to 10 seconds to be shown the files in the directory. Using regular Windows
3.11 or DOS the same action is pretty much instantaneous.
Any ideas what could be causing this delay or what steps to take? My feeling is
to contact the "Samba" developers, but there may be some tuning possible or
settings we've missed.
Martin
Well, there's no one "Samba developer". Check out the Internet newsgroups
called linux.samba and linux.samba.announce. Are you still running the version
that i sent you a few months ago? There may be a newer version on the net
somewhere. I haven't run Samba for a while, so I'm no help on the most recent
details.
I'm in network hell myself, too – I'm trying to think how I'll maintain a
source code version control system across PC, SGI, Mac and perhaps Amiga
systems, all networked, all intergrated into different development
environments, plus Alpha and MIPS versions of WinNT, plus DOS, plus who knows
what. 🙂
John,
well the systems programmer seems to have performed some magic (or tweaks) last
night that seems to have fixed the performance issues. Responsiveness now
_seems_ to be the way it should be. I'll try and find out what he did when I
see him later today and maybe post the findings, but it doesn't sound like
anybody but me is running this kind of a network.
Martin
I sent it to Pyros once upon a time, and I'm about to send it to Stuart Gold,
and I'll send him the latest version that I'll grab from the Internet. Sounds
like I should upload it here, too. 🙂
John,
>> Sounds like I should upload it here, too. 🙂 <<
good idea. I think we used a version that we d/l'ed from the Internet.
Martin