As I mentioned in a post a couple weeks ago, I've recently been given new duties involving maintaining a small Mac LAN at our agency, and I'm back with another question.
Here's the situation: We've just moved into a new office, where I've set up our network basically as it was at the old office, except for the addition of the new cable router/8-port 100bT switch. Every machine that is capable of 100bT is connected at that speed to either the router/switch or another 100bT switch, at least according to the router and Apple System Profiler (when it will tell me at all). Those machines that are running 8.6 appear to truly be running at 100bT; a beige G3, a couple iMacs, and a couple older beige machines with G3 cards. However, there are 3 G4s all running either 9.0.4 or 9.1 where Profiler tells me it's connected at 100bT, but any kind of operations in Quark or Photoshop with the server, specifically dealing with images, are quite slow. One machine in particular is unbearable. Now I realize that Quark does not necessarily play well with file servers, but the 8.6 machines running Quark are manageable, while the 9 machines are not. I have scoured various forums looking for clues as to the problem, but despite all the tips, the solution is eluding me. At this point, I am wondering if maybe the server OS and Appleshare IP versions are not playing nice with 9's appleshare client. The file server is a 233 Mhz beige G3 tower, server version, running OS 8.1 and ASIP 5.0.4 -- a setup that's been running for years. So, can anybody out there give me a clue? Will upgrading the server to OS 8.6 or 9.1 help? How about upgrading ASIP to 6.3.x? Feel free to email me offlist. Thanks. Rich Davies ------------------------------------------------------------- S. T. V R E E L A N D, Marketing & Design PO Box 938, 40 Forest Falls Drive, Yarmouth, Maine, USA 04096 Voice: 207-846-3714 Fax: 207-846-3899 See our latest: http://www.vreeland.com -- MacNetwork is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... XRouter Pro | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! Dr. Bott | Only $199 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/MIH130.html> Now shipping! Farallon Wireless SkyLINE PCI Card for Mac Desktops! <http://www.farallon.com/le/skyline/pci/index.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MacNetwork list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/macnet.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macnetwork%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
