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From: angelini@irisa.irisa.fr (Pierre Antoine Angelini)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: DOS Network Programs on PC-NFS
Summary: DOS programs in NFS networks
Message-ID: <1332@irisa.irisa.fr>
Date: 26 Jun 89 13:21:46 GMT
References: <2440NU136715@NDSUVM1>
Organization: IRISA, Rennes (Fr)
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In article <2440NU136715@NDSUVM1>, NU136715@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Tim Preuss) writes:
> 
>    Is anyone running something like Word Perfect Lan version and/or
> Framework III Lan version running with NFS networks? We're considering
> using NFS in our public networks and would appreciate any information.
> 
>    I'd also be interested in hearing how executable files are protected from
> copying. I really don't want everyone to have their own copy of everything on
> our public servers.
> 
> Tim Preuss                         nu136715@vm1.NoDak.edu
> North Dakota State University      nu136715@ndsuvm1.bitnet
> Academic User Services

I don't use FW III or Word Perfect on my PCNFS lan, but :
If you plan to use FW III on an NFS server , you might have the following problems:
1- Fw III require a netbios compatible network to handle properly concurrent file access ( if you plan to share data file (with write acces ) between several users, you will loose datas). PCNFS(up to version 3.0) isn't netbios compatible.
2- I don't know the way FWIII is sold in the US , but in France, FWII was copy  protected and the scheme used didn't allow us to install the soft on a networked drive. So we had to use the master disk to launch FWII.
There are some probabilities that FWIII has the same limitations, for PCNFS      isn't supported.

Protecting Files :

I didn't find a good way to avoid sofwares copy from users. PCNFS handles r-x 
rights in the same way.
But, if you set the file(or directory) to r-sr-xr-x (assuming you are the owner)it will become invisible to DOS and still executable.
That won't be efficient under Norton Utilities and some others, but it's better than nothing.