Topic: modems

[Jerry]

I would like to know the make and model numbers of modems that anyone has used sucessfully with E-smith.

Thanks,


Jerry

[Charlie Brady]

Jerry wrote:

> I would like to know the make and model numbers of modems that
> anyone has used sucessfully with E-smith.

It's worked with every modem that I've tried it with - about
four different brands - all external modems. I can't list the brands off-hand, and you probably wouldn't know them anyway -
from Taiwan with Rockwell chipsets.

Charlieb

[Jerry]

Think the key word is external. I have been attempting to use a variety of internal PCI modems. It is difficult to ascertain which are Win Modems and which are not. I have used a PCI internal from Creative Labs. It dials out but doesn't authenicate properly. The same modem works fine to the same ISP under Windows and NT so I am wondering if it could have something to do with the initial modem command line controls being sent to the modem by e-smith.  Just tried an internal PCI by 3Com (US robotics) it is 3com part number: 3cp2977-oem-50 it has a full chipset on the board and doesn't appear to be a Win modem. However, it doesn't appear to even dial out.

On another subject, have you much experience using e-smith as a file server. I have several installations where it is being used to serve data files from Quickbooks, Word and excel documents and the like. It works but seems rather slow with 32MB and only three users.

Thanks for the reply :-}

Jerry

[Charlie Brady]

Jerry wrote:

> On another subject, have you much experience using e-smith as a
> file server. I have several installations where it is being
> used to serve data files from Quickbooks, Word and excel
> documents and the like. It works but seems rather slow with
> 32MB and only three users.

I presume that you are using Windows clients. E-smith should be no difference in file sharing performance to linux+samba in general. It every benchmark I've seen has it performing quite well. 32MB should be fine for three users.

There's plenty of documentation for samba, including stuff about what performance you should expect, at http://www.samba.org/

Charlie

[Jerry]

In each instance they are client WS. The slowness only seems to be evident when the NT workstations log on to the e-smith server. Once the drive is mapped the performance is fine. So the delay is probably cause by the higher level of security that is required of NT. The Windows 98 WS latch up quite quickly.