From: Saeedi@cup.portal.com (Steven J Saeedi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: File Sharing Broken?
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 12:07:48 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

>Saeedi@cup.portal.com (Steven J Saeedi) writes:
>
>>Hello all,
>
>>I have recently installed A/UX 3.0 on an fx in a network
>>involving Un*x based and NetWare based servers.  We have 
>>the NetWare servers routing the AFP protocols from LocalTalk 
>>to 10-Base-T (Ethernet).
>
>>The A/UX machine is acting as a AppleShare server using 
>>the file Sharing Extension in System 7.0.1.  The problem
>>I'm experiencing is that the A/UX machine is EXTREMELY slow
>>when it comes to file sharing.  It takes about 10 minutes to
>>copy a 10K file from a Mac on LocalTalk to the fx on Ethernet.
>>The NetWare servers on Ethernet are much faster.
>
>If the entire "/" is enabled for sharing, then A/UX will be _very_
>slow... this is even mentioned in the Installation ReadMe file.

Well, the problem is that I'm not sharing "/" at all.  Let me try 
to clarify my situation

|----------|    |<-Ethernet             |<-LocalTalk
| Mac IIfx |    |                       |
|          |----|                       |
| A/UX 3.0 |    |     |---------|       |
| Sharing  |    |     | NetWare |       |
| /users   |    |     |         |       |
|----------|    |-----| Mac NLM |-------|
                |     |AT Router|       |     |------------|
|----------|    |     |---------|       |     | Mac SE/30  |
| NetWare  |    |                       |-----|            |
|          |    |                       |     |System 7.0.1|
| NFS NLM  |----|                       |     |File Sharing|
| Mac NLM  |    |                       |     |------------|
|----------|    |                       |

I am running System 7 on A/UX.  I try to log into the SE/30
from the chooser, and it sits there forever until I break the
connection.  I try to log into the NetWare running NFS as a 
Mac client using the chooser and I sit there forever until
I break the connection.

On the SE/30, I try to log into the A/UX machine (IIfx) from
the chooser and it takes a long time, but I get connected 
eventually and then it takes forever to transfer a file.  From
the SE/30 I log into the NetWare server running NFS as a Mac 
client from the SE/30 chooser and I am connected immediately.

On the A/UX machine, I mount a NetWare volume using NFS and it 
is immediately mounted.  File transfer is very fast.  I ftp
to the NetWare server and I get immediate response.

This tells me that the NetWare server is routing AFP protocols
properly, because I can log into the NFS NetWare server from the 
SE/30.  The ethernet connection works fine on the fx because I 
can get decent performance when using it in Unix.

I am dumbfounded as to what is going on.  I think that filesharing
is somewhat broken, especially on an fx.  I have reinstalled three
times already and the environment is pretty much virgin, except for
the hosts, networks, export files.

If you have any other ideas, I'll be very interested to hear about
them.

Thanks in advance,

-- Steve Saeedi
   saeedi@cup.portal.com
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