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- From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
- Subject: Re: How to network two PC? (How about LS Peer Services?)
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:44:24 GMT
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- In <C18242.CsH@austin.ibm.com> gthome@bulldogs.austin.ibm.com writes:
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- >This is true. A peer server runs on an Lan Requester. It allows one
- >connection at a time. I find it very useful because I can share a public
- >directory on my requester without having all of the overhead of a full blown
- >server. I do run NFS and could share a public directory that way, but
- >the Peer server is LOTS faster than NFS.
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- Will OS/2's NFS ever be as fast as Lan Requester? Or is there much more
- protocol overhead with NFS that make this impossible?
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