Re: iBook clients

2000-09-22 Thread Daniel Knight
We have an orange an a blue iBook, both running Mac OS 8.6. The orange gets 4.5 MB / min and the blue one doens't like Retrospect at all! What exactly doesn't it like? Is it just s-l-o-w? If so, look into Apple's Duplexer to force ethernet to a fixed speed and duplex setting. Dan Knight, IS

Re: Remote Client behind a firewall

2000-09-22 Thread Eric Ullman
Hi Wade, When you open the Clients on Network window, Retrospect only sends out its UDP query for systems on the local subnet--it does not try to connect with clients in other subnets which are logged in directly by IP address or DNS name until specific communication with that client is

Re: iBook clients

2000-09-22 Thread Pat Lee
Just as a note, I was backing up my Tangerine iBook (color is the most important feature, right?) over 100 BaseT to a FireWire hard drive on my desktop computer and saw over 200 MB/min transfers for the entire backup. If you have a mixed 10 and 100 network, it makes sense to get everyone over

Re: Backing up Appleshare server

2000-09-22 Thread Stefan Jeglinski
I thought about moving to Linux, but mail is a minor part of what that server is doing, so for me it's not really a good option. Everything else works perfectly and is very easy to manage. I have about 50 non-mail users on that server. One option FWIW is to get an old cx and run SIMS on it

Re: Backing up Appleshare server

2000-09-22 Thread Daniel Knight
Stefan Jeglinski One option FWIW is to get an old cx and run SIMS on it for your mail. We actually run SIMS on Mac-on-Linux on LinuxPPC (works great). We use ASIP for file sharing, but I can't imagine anyone using ASIP mail for anything, it is so lame. Second. I've run SIMS on as low as a

Re: Backing up Appleshare server

2000-09-22 Thread Julia Frizzell
At 1:50 PM -0400 9/22/00, Daniel Knight wrote: Stefan Jeglinski One option FWIW is to get an old cx and run SIMS on it for your mail. We actually run SIMS on Mac-on-Linux on LinuxPPC (works great). We use ASIP for file sharing, but I can't imagine anyone using ASIP mail for anything, it is so

Re: Backing up Appleshare server

2000-09-22 Thread Stefan Jeglinski
What is SIMS, and where can I find it/more about it? http://www.stalker.com/SIMS Dig thru the ftp site, you actually want to get 1.8b8, not the official release 1.7. Stefan Jeglinski -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To