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From: wittmann@erb1.engr.wisc.edu (art wittmann)
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Subject: Re: Impossible dream? (Access NFS vols & Novell vols w/o reboot?)
Message-ID: <241@erb1.engr.wisc.edu>
Date: 13 Aug 90 13:41:55 GMT
References: <1990Aug10.213744.19592@intek01.uucp>
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In article <1990Aug10.213744.19592@intek01.uucp> mark@intek01.uucp (Mark McWiggins) writes:
>The subject line says it all ... We have an ethernet LAN with a Novell server
>Is there any way to do this transparently, without rebooting?  
>Ideally I'd like to map DOS drive letters to Novell or NFS without the
>user having to think about it.  I haven't seen any announcement of such 
>a thing, but I hope I missed something.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>-- 
>Mark McWiggins			Integration Technologies, Inc. (Intek)
>mark@intek.com    		Ask me about C++!


There are a couple of solutions that might work for you.  First, you
could use a product called interdrive from ftp software.  It uses the
packet driver specification so you can run Novell software and FTP's
NFS stuff at the same time.  I'm not sure of FTP's address.  I think
you can get info over the net by mailing info@ftp.com, if not that
try the postmaster at ftp.com.

Some time this year (supposedly) Novell will be announcing NFS services
for netware 3.1.  I've met some of the people working on the project,
if you want more information on that product you can probably contact
Brian Meek (brian@novell.com).  The project is being done by some of the
former excellan engineers and should be pretty good.  You could then run
PC-NFS exclusively or put more disk space on your Netware system and 
have your Unix clients access it there.

Depending on the type of Unix machines your running, you might be able to
use portable netware.  I've only heard of a few successful ports, none were
real popular Unix systems (from my point of view, which is to say none to
Dec, HP or SUN).

There's three possibilities (in the order that I would investigate them).
Any by the way, what do you think about C++?

Art

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