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Re: Mac Manager vs Netinfo

On Thursday, June 20, 2002, at 09:03 pm, Andrew Vokes wrote:

I am going to be centrally serving my companies mac network. We are currently on 9.2.2 and will be switching to OS X in about 1 year. I see that Mac Manager is available to manage them. I have heard, however, that Mac Manager systems are slow and pause often. Is this so and if it is, are there common solutions to the slowness?

As with any piece of complicated software, different people set it up
in different ways with different hardware and have different problems.
Some people have reported such problems and other people don't have
them. It's certainly not true that /all/ Mac Manager systems are slow
and pause often.

From what I've seen here most of the speed problems with Mac Manager
seem to be caused, at the root of it all, by faulty or incompatible
networking hardware. I've often found that networking equipment or
configuration errors which appear to work fine under normal loads are
shown to be faulty when they are asked to carry so much traffic.

OR...

Should I just wait and use Netinfo when my office becomes fully OS X (does Netinfo have the same slowness as Mac Manager)

NetInfo doesn't do what Macintosh Manager does. It can be configured
to offer some similar facilities but it's far more difficult to manage
unless you're a Unix wizzard.

The next version of OS X Server will, if I understood Steve's speech
correctly, have the ability to use Macintosh Manager on OS X machines
as well as OS 9 ones. This is the 'Jaguar' version which is expected
out at the end of this summer.

Simon Slavin
--
Simon Slavin Fylde College Room C42
Computing Development Officer 01524 65201 x 93569
Psychology Department
University of Lancaster
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