On Aug 8, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Are Hansen wrote:
Hey, have you guys seen SharePoints? Wonderful shareware. Breaks you
out of the restrictive filesharing scheme that Apple went for in OSX,
which we old pre-X Macies found constrictive and claustrophobic.
Instead of just a special folder in your home directory, SharePoints
lets you share any folder on your hard drives, with full access
controls.
I tried it on two G4 AGPs (350 and 400 MHz), and compared to what I've
been used to from an OS9 server, it worked very fast - about 10
Megabyte per second.
So, on our deficit budget I hope that even a decent G3 something with
nothing more that Panther and SharePoints would make a good server for
home/small business, with simple and cheap 100 MB ethernet
connections. Then it wouldnt matter that G3 video cards are slow for
todays standard, and there isnt that much the processor would have to
do either, controlling dataflow to and from the HD and network.
Or what do you think?
Probably would make sense to add a faster HD and a PCI-controller...?
Buy whatever you want and use it, but keep in mind that even at 100,
the ethernet connection will be the bottleneck, not the HD, even with
the on-board controller. On my old beige 266 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, G3
fileserver, running at 10 on the ethernet, I can serve MP3s to any
computer on the network and they play fine, for the most part. I have
experienced a bit of lag from time to time since switching to the Mac,
but nothing drastic as I did when I tried once to running it on a 233
Mhz, 64 Mb RAM, PII PC running Linux. With the same PC running Win
98SE, no lag at all. I think it had something to do with the Samba
setup as LInux is usually better at being a server OS than Windows ever
thought about being. In any case, my setup works for me and what I use
it for and you may have a different application in mind.
Just a message from Doug...
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