Hi. I am a beginner. Please skip if you mind stupid questions. My situation is a heterogeneous network (AIX, IRIX, Windows2000), where the following is presently NOT easily possible: File-transfer (ftp back and forth yields sometimes different file sizes even for non-text-files), backup (automatically only possible for the UNIX-machines).
My idea: Installation of OpenAFS as a server AND client on ALL of the machines (the personal data of every person lying on a "local" volume on the server-machine he is normally working on). My questions: 1) Acces of a client-process on a volume on the same machine: Does this access stay local on the machine (except perhaps update requests to other server-processes on other machines) or will it slow down the file access significantly? 2) Sometimes the Windows DOES hang. Are frequently hanging server-machines a bigger problem for the cell? One machine is an very frequently disconnected laptop. Should this machine be only a client? 3) The idea of making EVERY machine a server comes from the fact of working locally most of the time and being able to backup with the automatic routines. Intelligent or problem-prone? Thanks for every patient response, Felix. -- Werden Sie mit uns zum "OnlineStar 2002"! Jetzt GMX w�hlen - und tolle Preise absahnen! http://www.onlinestar.de _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
