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afp vs smb vs nfs

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  • #380157
    Lindsay Robertso
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    Hi.

    After 15 years of Novell, we have decided to make our new Department server a windows 2008 box. (rather than shifting to OES2)

    We’ve tested mac authentication, authorisation and auto mounting network home directories successfully via smb.

    Should we be buying an afp package? Is SMB good enough? Does it work with NFS?
    I’m mostly interested in reliability but also speed.

    We have about 600 computers, about 70 of which are macs.
    We have a 10.6 Mac mini server for MCX

    l.

    #380171
    jondb2010
    Participant

    I currently have 1500 desktop machines using AD 2008 & OD 10.6.5 for computer management with about 300 Imac’s running 10.6.5 and 150 running 10.5.8 our network is Gigabit Ethernet from top to bottom running on 5510,5520,8600 nortel equipment we also run voip over same network and we have had no problems mounting smb shares from macs nor have we had any problems with speed.

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