[Gllug] OT Firewire/Fast Networking

[Ian Baillie]

Thanks...  Unfortunately we are currently using OS 9 clients, although
we do have there home directories centrally mounting on an OSX server
(using MacAdmin).  I don't think this is quick enough for video editing
though, eventhough we have a 10/100 ethernet network, we will be having
upto 23 children accessing the server at the same time (which has an IDE
drive).

Cheers....


Ian


On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 14:41, 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
> 
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