[Gllug] OT Firewire/Fast Networking

[Xander D Harkness]

Paul Roberts wrote:

>>Is there an inexpensive way of networking which would allow a number of
>>machines to have there files stored centrally and be able to do video
>>editing?
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>You should consider using NFS (Network File System). It allows a server
>to share files, which can then be mounted by the clients as if they were
>a normal part of the local filesystem.
>
>The usual way to do this is to have the users' home directories on a
>central server, then when that user logs into a machine, their home
>directory is mounted from the server. That way, it doesn't matter which
>machine they log in to, they always see the same files.
>
>All of this is supported by MacOSX out of the box (though it might take
>a bit of tweaking to setup the server without buying MacOSX Server).
>
>Cheers, - Paul
>
You might want to have a look at IP over firewire which provides much 
faster transport speeds that ethernet (100baseT)

Stick nfs or similar on top of this and you have some very good 
connectivity :-)

Kind regards
Xander

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