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From: rmf@media.uucp (Roger Fujii)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: PCNFS on Apollos
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.154133.16244@media.uucp>
Date: 7 Aug 90 15:41:33 GMT
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rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes:
>  Why can't HP just break down and play with others!?!?!?

>They did.  Apollo has NFS (although I've heard the server side doesn't work
>too well).  Does PC-NFS use a different protocol from regular NFS?  I

1) Ha.  Apollo's NFS has caused me *no* end of headaches.  Saying that it
'doesn't work too well' is putting it kindly (BTW, the client side bits
the big one too.....).
2) No.  PC-NFS handles the pc-oid services printing and authentication.

>thought all NFS implementations were supposed to play together?  Why don't

They usually do, unless you have apollo's version....

>the PC-NFS folks just break down and play with the others?

Why do people make criticisms on topics they no *nothing* about?


I suppose that one can take the rpc library in comp.sources.unix and link
in the pcnfsd to it (I would try it here, but I don't have a pcnfs client
(I do have the pcnfsd source though).  I know that SUN's RPC code *does*
compile on the apollos will very little modifications (some include file
editing, if I remember correctly), and it actually *WORKS* (but I remember
that the compiled portmapper didn't work quite right with the apollos
(naturally)).


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