I did some testing with final cut pro 4. I do not have hard numbers with me, but with final cut pro if the capture drops a frame the capture aborts. On an isolated network we were able to do 3 simulations captures using netatalk and we were unable to do any captures using samba authentication. I know that does not directly correlate to performance, but we also found when copying large files (2-7 GB's) netatalk out preformed samba as well.
I tried configuring the PAM to use AD authentication, but I could not get it to work. It probably is not that hard, but we decided to go with a different solution before I could get it working.
I found using netatalk shares works better on a linux box then using samba shares. Netatalk allows OS X to connect to the linux server using AFP 3, which in my testing was much faster than SMB. Netatalk was not that hard to setup, but I did have a problem with setting up domain authentication.
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I did some testing with final cut pro 4. I do not have hard numbers with me, but with final cut pro if the capture drops a frame the capture aborts. On an isolated network we were able to do 3 simulations captures using netatalk and we were unable to do any captures using samba authentication. I know that does not directly correlate to performance, but we also found when copying large files (2-7 GB's) netatalk out preformed samba as well.
I tried configuring the PAM to use AD authentication, but I could not get it to work. It probably is not that hard, but we decided to go with a different solution before I could get it working.
All of our test were done on G5's running 10.3.
I found using netatalk shares works better on a linux box then using samba shares. Netatalk allows OS X to connect to the linux server using AFP 3, which in my testing was much faster than SMB. Netatalk was not that hard to setup, but I did have a problem with setting up domain authentication.
http://www.vosonic.co.uk/vp300.html
A coworker bought one for her trip to Africa. She did not want to carry a notebook with her. It works pretty well. It does not support XD cards.
Well maybe the next google can afford to pay for some bandwidth.