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From: steve@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Steve Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 and PC-NFS?????
Keywords: Software for pcnfs
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.001504.21331@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 30 Aug 90 00:15:04 GMT
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Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
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We're also trying to run Windows 3.0 on an AT/386.  The PC has only
NFS-networked disks, file served off a Sun 3/60 by Beame & Whiteside's
NFS running on top of Excelan's LAN Workplace for DOS.  We load the
network software into real memory, and things seem to work -- at least
for a while.  But eventually when an application (even Notepad) goes
looking for a file, or tries to save a file, Windows gets lost in
space: the little hourglass icon comes up, and stays there as long as
anyone is willing to wait.  Alternatively, a message box comes up
announcing a System Error: Attempting to write to Drive A with Retry
and Cancel buttons.  Of course, there is no activity on drive A when
this happens, and if you're lucky hitting the cancel button crashes
Windows.  If you're unlucky, hitting either button does nothing, and
you have to reboot the machine.  In either case, Windows is corrupted
and we have to reinstall it from floppies.

Anybody have an idea of what is happening here, and  what we can do
about it?
-- 
		-  Steve Mitchell	steve@cps.altadena.ca.us
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