Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:4769 comp.protocols.nfs:1226 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!planet!prk From: prk@planet.bt.co.uk (Peter Knight) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: Windows on an NFS drive Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 90 14:49:53 GMT References: <1380.26dd298b@waikato.ac.nz> Sender: usenet@planet.bt.co.uk (Usenet News Manager) Organization: RT743, BT Research Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK. Lines: 25 ccc_jc@waikato.ac.nz writes: >Has Anyone succeeded in running Windows3 from a pc-nfs networked drive... >Windows 2xx worked fine but 3 seems to come up with an empty program manager, >and any attempt to run an application comes back with an error 'Too many files > open'. > Any Ideas... >j creek Can't say I have tried this, but something worth bearing in mind is the number of open files PC-NFS supports: only 8 by default. To change this you need to add a /f20 (for 20 files) switch on the PCNFS.SYS load in the CONFIG.SYS file: DEVICE=c:\nfs\PCNFS.SYS /f20 Windows 3 also supports a swapper disk, so this needs to be configured to use a local HD, perhaps. Peter Knight BT Research #include