On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Terry McCoy wrote:
> The quality of the AFS client for Windows NT is not on par with
> its Unix counter part. Also there is still a fairly large number
> of Win 95/98 machines still out there (at least in our environment).
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Alex Lenderman wrote:
> > I don't understand why you want to use Linux and a gateway to AFS for smb
> > clients.
Thanks for the comments. 1) we have many legacy win9x machine that would
benefit from afs access. 2) the NT afs client works okay, but generates a
lot of additional smb traffic on the wire -- we caught this the otherday
with a packet filter. I don't know what it all means yet, but the bottom
line is I don't think it wise (or possible) to have a general afs
deployment on all my client pc's.
Another side, afs clients on nt refuse to work over ppp connections.
However, smb shares work fine although a bit slow. ergo, if I can gateway
smb clients into afs, I'll have more happy users.
David Bear
College of Public Programs/ASU
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