Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Question on accessing remote volumes over TCP/IP...
From: Paul J. Schinder (schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Date: Fri Mar 20 1998 - 13:22:03 EST
On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 10:00:01AM -0800, Harry Zink wrote:
} I was wondering...
}
} If I install asun's TCP installation on my web-server (which is hosted
} quite a ways from my perosnal location), can I then mount my server's
} volumes directly on my Mac desktop?
Yeah, sure. I do this over my PPP link on occasion. At 33.6k, it's
not something I do every day, but it does work.
}
} I understand that TCP access provides a speed boost in local (LAN)
} environments, but I'm wondering if I can also benefit on remote volumes,
} hosted elsewhere?
I haven't directly compared speed to ARA because I used ARA so rarely,
but I didn't notice any spectacular improvement. The nice thing is
that you don't have to switch into ARA just to mount remote disks.
}
} Yes, I know, I could also just install it, and see what happens, but I'm
} wondering if anyone else has done this, and what their results/findings
} were.
}
} Thanks,
}
} Harry
-- -------- Paul J. Schinder NASA Goddard Space Flight Center schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov
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