on 15/8/01 12:39, Jake Williamson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> could these file have slowed the machine's down though? i still don't get
> why connecting from the 8500 to a g4 would be regular speed and while
> connecting from the g5 to the 8500 goes at snail pace??
Don't know what the files do but they probably were responsible for the
slowdown. What was [probably] happening was that your 8500 (the server) was
searching through each and every one of these files before responding to the
client's (G4) request for an AppleShare connection.
> out of interest, how do people share their HD's?? at the moment all the
> drives on our machines are available to everyone on the network (there's
> only three of us so security isn't to much of an issue.)
I've always ensured that I had the "owner" user set up (without password in
the past) on OS 7/8/9 so I could access *all* drives hooked up to the host.
BTW OS X 10.0.4 is now doing a reasonable job of acting as a file server. I
can now log into my G3 with a Powerbook 540c or Quadra 700 running OS 8.1.
However, the OS X AFS server does seem a little flaky. I've now had to
reboot OS X twice because I could no longer log into my computer (it wasn't
a crash... I just couldn't figure out how to restart the server software :(
[OS X has crashed only *once* since April 1, 2001 and that was when I
plugged in and unplugged a USB CD-RW *during* start up, not exactly an
everyday occurrence during boot time... I am now a 90%+ OS X user... the
stability of the system is AMAZING (& the multitasking is pretty nice too,
even on a G3/450)].
> i'm thinking of only making my working drive available to others - does
> anyone think that this would speed things up??
ABSOLUTELY!!! If you prevent the other drives from sharing you'll speed
things up immensely. You'll speed things up even more if you share only a
few folders with the files contained therein. Also, the fewer files being
shared the faster your 8500 will start up.
> on 15/8/01 5:26 pm, Clark Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> They are not Acrobat files at all. These files are created when you first
>> mount a CD and FileSharing is on. They store the privileges for each
>> folder on the disk. You can share all or part of a CD if you want. It
>> doesn't matter if you didn't share the disk. Whether the disk is shared or
>> not is also stored in the file. About all you can do is to purge this
>> folder from time to time.
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