Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!pcharming!tr From: tr@pcharming.ctt.bellcore.com (tom reingold) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: need NFS server for IBM PC Keywords: NFS, IBM PC Message-ID: <17279@bellcore.bellcore.com> Date: 25 Jul 89 11:34:56 GMT References: <488@isl.stanford.edu> Sender: news@bellcore.bellcore.com Reply-To: tr@pcharming.UUCP (tom reingold) Distribution: usa Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, Noo Joizy Lines: 29 On the subject of "need NFS server for IBM PC", lim@isl.Stanford.EDU (Kelvin O. Lim) writes: $ I have an IBM AT that has a Fujitsu Eagle SMD drive attached to it ( >330MB). $ We use it to store large amounts of data acquired by the AT. The AT is $ attached to our unix hosts via ethernet. We would like to be able to access $ the files ( using fopen, fread, etc. ) from our unix hosts, as if the AT $ were another NFS volume. Unfortunately PC-NFS from Sun $ does not provide this facility, only allowing the PC to access Unix hosts. $ FTP is not a solution because we wish to read the files on the AT $ attached disk, not transfer them to the Unix host. $ $ Any leads would be greatly appreciated. I underand there is someone $ at LBL who worked on this problem - S. Tan? There were some server programs mentioned here only recently. I hope those who posted info on them will do so again. My comments: Sun strongly recommends that servers be of equal or greater "power" than that of the clients. This makes a lot of sense. Unix clients of the PC files will kill the server, drawing the files so fast. (I assume your Unix machines are faster than an AT.) So what you want to do is possible (since I read the news on PC server programs), but you may not be happy with the performance. Tom Reingold |INTERNET: tr@ctt.bellcore.com Bell Communications Research |UUCP: bellcore!ctt!tr 444 Hoes La room 1H217 |PHONE: (201) 699-7058 [work], Piscataway, NJ 08854 | (201) 287-2345 [home]