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In article <BxF2r2.HJ0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam) writes:
>andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Nov6.231744.6229@almserv.uucp> rmcghee@fnma.com writes:
>>>Hey NetWare Gurus,
>>>
>>>I just set up a Novell server but access from a NeXT is sooooo slow it is  
>>>not usable.  Any known problems?  Any idiot checks?  The automount takes  
>>>literally about 30 seconds and subsequent acccesses do not get any better.
>>>All help is greatly appreciated.
>
>>The autoNetWareMounter is a dog.  The client isn't so bad when you are
>>doing big reads or writes, but browsing around the NetWare file-system
>>is painful.  It shouldn't be that way.
>
>You could always get Netware NFS.  It's fast!!!!  So fast, it'll rumble!
>Even a TurboNeXT can't keep up without slowing Netware server down.  I've
>got a SPARC 10 which got chewed up by a 386/33 EISA server, before the 
>slow-down patch was installed.  
>
>Then you could just mount the Netware server..

Yeah, we've got NetWare NFS and NetWare for Macintosh (try mounting
the NetWare server over AppleTalk on your NeXT - it's a trip).
NetWare NFS is pretty expensive, so getting it (if you don't already
have it) just to hook up a bunch if NeXT's is probably not worth it.

NetWare kicks ass!


andrew