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From: "Rob Neil" <robn@galleon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: VisionFS 3.10.905 Failure
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:04:44 +0100
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All I can say is that I got fed up with VisionFS hanging (1.2 and 3.0) and
so moved to Samba in a fit of pique one morning (on OSR5 and Solaris 2.5.1).
Both installations have been running happily for 9 months now and anecdotal
evidence would suggest that Samba is WAY faster.
Rob
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Rob Neil Email: robn@galleon.co.uk
Systems Manager, Galleon Ltd Tel: (01795) 414549
"Ken Wolff" <kenw@cscc.maximus.com> wrote in message
news:4.3.2.7.2.20001011105743.00c4ff00@scogr1.cscc.maximus.com...
> At 10:01 AM 10/11/00 +0000, Brian K. White wrote:
>
> >I've not had 3.1 running long enough or used enough to tell yet, but I've
> >had mysterious "just kinda stopped working after a while" problems with
all
> >the 3.0 versions (only versions I ever used) enough such that I'm holding
> >off pitching it to my boss as a replacement for facetwin for our clients.
I
> >know how to configure plain old telnet well enough to replace the facet
term
> >emulator, but vsion has not been stable enough to replace the
file-sharing,
> >and I'never had time to play with samba except at home a little and then
> >only on linux.
> >
> >what say ye-whoever? what's the general consensus on samba-on-OSR5 as far
as
> >dependability?
> >anecdotal accounts welcome.
>
> Under the 3.0 versions we had problems where you would lose network or
> printer connections and also problems where the user would be told their
> password was invalid but if they kept entering the same password 2, 3
maybe
> 4 times it eventually took it. Keeping in mind we've only been on 3.1 for
> a couple of weeks, we have not had those problems. Only once did we run
> into port 139 being in use and that could have been due to some other
> errant program/user grabbing it and hosing off Vision.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Ken Wolff
> Phone: 616-957-4949 Ext: 111
> FAX: 616-957-1614
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
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