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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: NFS on a mac
Message-ID: <8714@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 16 Oct 89 01:35:04 GMT
References: <500@retix.retix.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <500@retix.retix.COM> chet@retix.retix.COM (Chet Mazur) writes:
>Is there an NFS client available for the mac??? if not, are there and
>other means of having a shared Unix/mac files system (the unix is SCO
>or Interactive SYS V)...

Don't you people ever notice that this question gets asked almost once
a week on this newsgroup?  Enough already!

The answer is:  Such a product has been created, at the University of
Michigan, on Apple's behalf.  No one likes it very much and it has not
been released.  The other solution, which does have some fans, is
Cayman's Gatorbox, which is an AFP server with NFS as its native file
system, so that it acts as an effective gateway.  I don't know whether
they've conquered the reliability problems yet, but you can find plenty
of people to chat about it on comp.protocols.appletalk, which is where
you should have asked the question in the first place.

TOPS and NFS were originally going to merge, but TOPS finally figured
out (long after I told them, and quit in frustration over being
ignored) that this could never work, and now TOPS is on its way out of
Sun -- that is, Sun's trying to sell the company.  The rumor is a
management buyout, but we'll have to wait and see.  In any case, if you
were foolish enough to listen to TOPS's schpiel about an NFS/TOPS
protocol merge, then you're SOL.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"I wouldn't work for Dukakis if my life depended on it.  I've worked for
 Greeks and I know just how filthy and stinking they can be."
    -- Caller, KGO-AM, 8 Nov 88