Mike Comer did a simple experiment with Samba on NT when I
was in his office to see if it caches pages locally (i.e.,
uses the NT FS cache or the equivalent). It doesn't. I'm not
sure if this applies to Win95, but if it does, it would appear
that a Samba porting solution would be quite limited; the
utility of AFS will diminish as you add clients since each
client would be making RPCs for every file access.
"Randall S. Winchester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And if you want an easy free solution, look at Samba;
> WHAT CAN SAMBA DO?
> ==================
>
> Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does
>
> - a SMB server, to provide LanManager style file and print services to PCs
>
> - a Netbios (rfc1001/1002) nameserver
>
> - a ftp-like SMB client so you can access PC resources (disks and
> printers) from unix
>
> - a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs
>
> Samba has support for both AFS and DCE/DFS authentication. It works very
> well and the best thing is that you do not need to add anything to the PC!
>
> Randall
