Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!maccs!beame
From: beame@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Beame)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Is anyone using 3+open Lan Manager & Interdrive together?
Message-ID: <26C5F881.15729@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 13 Aug 90 00:46:57 GMT
References: <1153@kimbal.lynn.ma.us>
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Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1153@kimbal.lynn.ma.us> rick@kimbal.lynn.ma.us (Rick Kimball) writes:
>In the application I'm developing I want to have both Lan Manager
>disk and NFS disks mounted at the same time.  On the Lan Manager
>side we are using 3+OPEN verison 1.1, on the NFS side I have tried
>FTP's Interdrive, Beam & Whiteside NFS.  
>
>NONE of these work concurrently together.  I have reported
>my problem to all vendors involved.  Basically none of them
>give a sh** that don't work together. 
>
>You may ask why I don't pick one way or another. It purely
>political and I can't change it without leaving.
>
>
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	I do give a sh** and I am sure that FTP also does. Be aware that
3+OPEN, FTP's Interdrive, Beame & Whiteside's BWNFS ALL use the INT 2F
interface from DOS for the redirection of drives. This interface is 
designed for one and only ONE redirector. Just like you can only run one
vendor's TCP/IP, you can only run one redirector that uses the INT 2F
interface under DOS. 

	You can run Novell NetWare and BWNFS together, because Netware does
not use the INT 2F interface.

	Please try to distinguish a vendor saying that a problem is
either technically impossible or not marketable from he/she not giving a sh**.

	- Carl Beame
	President
	Beame & Whiteside Software LTD.