Increasing Nfs Performance Using The Windows Registry; Creating A File-Name Translation File - Xerox C8 - DocuPrint Color Inkjet Printer User Manual

UNIX Connectivity

Increasing NFS Performance Using the Windows Registry

Creating a File-name Translation File

Restart the computer.
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Note: After you have installed Services for UNIX 3.0, you can add or remove
additional program components whenever you choose by inserting the SFU 3.o
CD-ROM.
The Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 application disables disk write
caching in the Windows registry by default (caching=
When write caching is enabled, the speed of NFS file write operations is
increased. You can expect NFS file write performance to be in the range of
5-7 MB/second.
You can download a special registry file that automatically enables write
caching.
To enable write caching automatically in the Windows registry:
Download the
sfu_better_performance.reg
TechPlanet location, http://techplanet.creo.com/pos/entry_production/
nav/index.htm, and then run the file.
Note: For detailed information about the Windows Registry, visit Microsoft
support at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;256986.
Windows Services for Unix 3.0 lets you import a special text file that
translates UNIX-specific text characters into characters that are recognized
by Windows NTFS.
The most problematic UNIX character that is not recognized by NTFS is
the colon character ( . The Helios application uses colon characters to
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store Macintosh file name descriptions so that UNIX recognizes them.
Other UNIX characters that are not residencies by NTFS are the asterisk
(*) and the question-mark (?) characters.
You can obtain the
trans.txt
import it into SFU.
file from the following
translation text file from Xerox Support and
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