[KLUG Members] Nautilus smb: - was Two questions.

[Bruce Smith]

>>Nautilus/smb: works fine at home, one Win98 box & one Linux box.
>>I guess it's takes longer at work because I have more Winxx PC's
>>to browse in the workgroup (about 100)???
> 
> If you're not using WINS, you _should_.  Just out of sheer performance. 
> 100 systems, all broadcasting?  Bad things man, bad things!  ;-P


100 is probably a high estimate without checking.
A more real number would probably be closer to 70.
In any case, we're getting enough Windows PC's to make
a WINS server worth while now.

>>I've been thinking of doing that.  I need to compile a newer
>>version of Samba on HPUX.
> 
> Don't they have a binary already at Samba.org?


I'll check there, and the HPUX porting center first.

>>Yes, all my HPUX boxes are running NIS.
> 
> Good.  So I take it all UNIX systems are NIS clients? 


Almost all, except for a few Linux boxes where
I don't want anyone else logging in.   :-)

I've got one NIS server and a couple dozen *nix clients.

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I also have the home directories NFS mounted on all the
*nix boxes - AND the /var/mail directory NFS mounted on
all the _HPUX_ boxes (but not Linux).  (refering to your
comments on your leap list)  I know about the locking
problems that can cause on Linux, but it works great on
HPUX, and I've been running that way for over 15 years
without any problems!  :-)
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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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