After 20-ish years of NetServer and with PASE/NIX under the covers, there's no reason IBM i shouldn't have a highly efficient PC file serving/sharing engine by now.
The Samba server implementation was too little too late since most companies have moved their file sharing workloads because they needed share reliability. I still shudder when I think back to my first NetServer experience back in 1997 with a lawfirm who ultimately replaced i file sharing with a Windows server because Word would blow up or not save files via NetServer.
The good thing is there are great tools for integrating to IBM i from Windows, Linux and AIX and making it feel seamless these days to share between LPARs or external servers. So all is not lost...
Regards,
Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com
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date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:44:43 -0500
from: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: AIX suggestions
Brad said: Netserver and slow is an understatement.
Exactly! And it really isn't based on the assumption that your IBM i is busy processing thousands or tens of thousands of concurrent jobs. It's just that IBM i is not written to be as fast for raw file serving as the other OS's out there.
It can do it, but you're just not going to get the performance as other systems.
Rob Berendt
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From: Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/21/2017 04:33 PM
Subject: Re: AIX suggestions
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Netserver and slow is an understatement.
Bradley V. Stone
www.bvstools.com
midrange.com
