Subj : A rather general question To : Roy J. Tellason From : Russell Tiedt Date : Sun Jul 18 2004 01:11 pm Hello Roy. 17 Jul 04 12:24, you wrote to me: RT>>> Lately I've been trying to do stuff with nfs. It's working out RT>>> so far, but there are times when it gets cumbersome. In kmail, RT>>> for example, I will go to enter or leave a given mail folder RT>>> and the LAN will appear to saturate, according to what I see on RT>>> the light on the hub, and the indications in top on the other RT>>> end. And it's *slow* at that point. I may need to find a better RT>>> approach to this. RT>>> Samba? RT>> Why? You're not the first one to suggest this, but... RT>> Why, because, it works, and I have not had any joy with NFS, RT>> maybe, I just don't understand it, so path of least resistance is RT>> to use samba which works for me, with minimal hassles RT> Hm. RT> But it's a fsck'n _windoze_ protocol! :-) Works just as well between Linux boxes, and I can make it work fine .... RT> I did get past the bad behavior, mostly by cutting down on the size RT> of the data that I was trying to handle, which if I'm understanding RT> it right had the link trying to simultaneously open several thousand RT> files at once... Hmmm ... would have been nice to know if just changing to samba would have improved the situation or not. Ah well ... Russell --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.4.7 * Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (5:7105/1) .