Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!wyn386!danielw From: danielw@wyn386.UUCP (Daniel Wynalda) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: lan workplace, dos/xenix network, etc Message-ID: <124@wyn386.UUCP> Date: 19 Oct 89 14:11:29 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Wynalda Litho Inc, Rockford MI Lines: 37 I recently installed SCO Xenix-Net and Excelan LAN workplace software on two 80386 machines and I must say I like it. There are alot of "perks" having your WHOLE FILESYSTEM mounted on a remote machine -- for example you can read/write any terminal on the other machine just by opening a filename. (I know this wont seem like much to those of you that use bigger machines or NFS/RFS, but this is new to us micro folks). Now that I am impressed with this system, is there anyone out there who's tied DOS machines into this type of network and used the SCO Xenix machines as file servers. The reason I ask is this: I have a DOS ONLY application that monitors production equipment and updates logs/files in MSDOS to keep track of information regarding production. I'd like to put these files on a XENIX fileserver so I can access/create the files with the dos machine (full time dedicated) and still be able to get into the files on our Xenix hosts -- to generate some custom reporting. Before someone says "why don't you just get the monitoring program running under Xenix", I went to Chicago yesterday and asked. That is a ways down the road for them and I don't get source to this graphics/monitoring program for Printing Press equipment. However, if I could get at it's files it'd be great. What I'm looking for is input from anyone running LAN workplace and Xenix-Net from a DOS machine to use files on a Xenix filesystem under DOS. Your help, as always, is appreciated. -- In fact this network is becoming more and more invaluable in this field. Daniel Wynalda -- Daniel Wynalda | Telephone: (616) 866-1561 X22 Ham: N8KUD Wynalda Litho Inc. | Network: danielw@wyn386.UUCP ..sharkey!wyn386!danielw 8221 Graphic Ind Pk. | Diskclaimer: If you find a disk with no label, it is Rockford, MI 49341 | the one I lost. I say what I say for me ONLY here.