NW6.0 SP5 NFA - CIFS...

Hmmm.... a blast from the very distant past I'm afraid...
Does anyone have any recollections of the stability of CIFS under NW6.0 SP5?
For my sins I am involved in a migration project and one of the co-existence strategies we are looking at is enabling CIFS.... The client has both cluster and standalone servers, and we'd be looking to use domain authentication
So, any thoughts on server and/or cluster resource enabling volumes with cifs would be recommended
Many thanks!
David

With the latest and last NSS/CIFS updates for 6.0 I'd expect it to be reasonably stable. Scaling is another thing, though.

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bye
> ,
> > I get this, because mod_jk.nlm from apache2 is running. If i stops
> > apache2 and unload mod_jk.nlm, then nvxadmup, middle tier works fine.
And
> > viceversa, if i starts middle tier, i can't start apache2 for
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> >
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>
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>
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> BEATLE,
>
> > I am looking to consolidate my windows and Netware servers on one box
> > running VMware ESXI. Does anyone have experience moving physical to
virtual
> > using Portlock.
>
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>
> > They claim to make it simple as pie. Will the source
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>
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>
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>
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