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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC-NFS - What is it?
Keywords: pcnfs, tcpip, ethernet
Message-ID: <1989Oct22.164634.2948@world.std.com>
Date: 22 Oct 89 16:46:34 GMT
References: <228@labii.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@world.UUCP (jim frost)
Organization: Software Tool & Die
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In article <228@labii.UUCP> shevett@labii.UUCP (Dave Shevett) writes:
|Can I use PC-NFS to make those files available to the
|SCO system like a Unix NFS system?  

Unless Sun has added that functionality in recent releases, no.  The
last time I used PC-NFS it was client-side only -- the idea was to
give PC's access to large (shared) disk space on mainframes.

Using PC-NFS to transfer files is comparable in speed to local
fixed-disk to fixed-disk copying, so it will serve your needs better
than a serial link, but you will require ethernet for the PC.

Note that PC-NFS comes with a variety of networking tools, not just
the NFS functionality.  When I was installing it there were numerous
strangenesses (as with most networking software for PCs), particularly
with 386 machines.  Other than that the product seemed to work as
advertised.  It ate up something like 200k though; if this hasn't been
improved upon you really want a fully-configured MS-DOS machine.

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com