Well, it was fairly unanimous that Pathowrks on the Alpha running OSF 3.0
was not a great idea. Most people stated that it was difficult to
administer and some complained of extreme server load causing crashes.
Others complained that printing was difficult. In general the word was
to avoid it.
Many people recommended SAMBA, a freeware package:
"Samba is a freeware product, that implements the SMB protocol for unix
systems. This protocol is sometimes also referred to the LanManager or
Netbios protocol.
It's available
on:
nimbus.anu.edu.au: pub/tridge/samba/
Thanks to all who helped
-Ed Silver
IPC
eds_at_ipcc.com
Received on Wed Jul 12 1995 - 14:21:23 NZST