RE: Shared File Access Slow

It is mapped this way.....

\\IJHHA\JHA\WNBFILES


JHA is the folder that is shared.

Rogers

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 7:24 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Shared File Access Slow

How are they mapping? Someone created a share called ROOT here which is

mapped to the '/' directory. The department likes it because it
simplifies stuff for them. Although telling the user to map to
\\myi\root\thisdir\thatdir\anotherdir\yetanotherdir\whereyouwanttobe
instead of \\myi\whereyouwanttobe can be rough for the users. Yes,
mapping to root just makes it easier for everyone to step on their
winkie
because they can go where they shouldn't.

There's also a performance consideration with mapping to root,
especially
when migrating to Windows 7.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas15197341657f9f57e862576
55005736ff
<snip>
Sharing the root file system (share path of /) is not
recommended
when NetServer drives will be mapped from Windows 7. A situation has
been
seen where Windows 7 was indexing everything under root, and when it
began
to index /QNTC/*, NetServer was overloaded and experienced delays.
Because
the /QNTC file system is on the root of the IFS, this problem is not
encountered when sharing at a level other then root.

Note that neither is sharing of the /QNTC file system recommended. QNTC
is
the file system that allows an IBM i system to access PCs on the
network.
Rather than having a client PC access the IBM i (using NetServer) and
then
access other PCs from there, it is recommended that a PC that has a need

to access another PC on the network do so directly (bypassing the need
to
connect to the NetServer).
</snip>


Rob Berendt