[Gllug] OT Firewire/Fast Networking

[Ian Baillie]

IP over Firewire?  That sounds like the kind of thing I'm looking for. 
Does this mean you can do Firewire networking, whereby I can have a rack
of firewire drives being shared by all the machines, which are in turn
networked using firewire leads?

Ian

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 15:04, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> 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?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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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