Good day, folks.
We have an NT Domain (who doesn’t?) with a single instance of Gateway Services for Netware. There are currently only 30+ users in this domain BUT there are several Admin Assistants that are constantly sucking up bandwidth with open pipes to huge Photoshop, Powerpoint and Quark XPress files (often 20+ mb); they’re constantly complaining of slow file access/open times — and they’re valid. I’ve attempted to open the files through the GW and from the NT servers on their side of the GW. The Novell side is using TCP/IP so I can’t imagine there’d be much header overhead/translation.
My question, really, is this:
Would a second Gateway on a separate server help with throughput? I swear I read it somewhere.
Opinionsand suggestions would be MUCH appreciated.
(I have also considered the software, switches, etc. for possible bottlenecks…I just want to know about a second instance of GSNW.)