Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mitel!rupert!sullivan
From: sullivan@rupert.misemi (Mike Sullivan infotech)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 and PC-NFS?????
Keywords: Software for pcnfs
Message-ID: <4297@rupert.misemi>
Date: 5 Sep 90 20:38:04 GMT
References: <852@iiasa.UUCP> <926@massey.ac.nz> <9192@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Reply-To: sullivan@rupert.UUCP (Mike Sullivan infotech)
Organization: MITEL Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
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In article <926@massey.ac.nz> ABishop@massey.ac.nz (A.G. Bishop) writes:
>If you can find ANYTHING in the way of mainstream PC software that is
>aware of PC-NFS I'd love to hear about it!

Well, we have (finally, I think) gotten Lotus 1-2-3 Rel 2.2 Network to
work correctly. The "tricks":

1. Initialize and copy 1-2-3 as per instructions. We used Drive S:
mounted to a system directory, readable to the pcuser community, with
the subdirectory s:\123 (and s:\123\allways) instead of \LOTUS\123R22.
(use the /MS or Must Share option in the NET USE S: \\.... command).
Set the permissions of SINGLE.LBR to read/write/execute (make a backup).

2. create the license directory as per instructions (MUST be 
s:\lotshare\123.v22) and initiatize the COUNT. This directory must
be read/write/execute to the user community. 

3. Create the user directories (we mount the user's home directories 
as drive H:\ and make a subdirectory h:\123 and H:\123\files).
Copy the config files to the user account -- you can use the Lotus 
NEWUSER batch file.

4. Add the PERSONAL directory to the path. In our case, it's H:\123.
Start the INSTALL program from the system directory, specifying the
user's setup file (S:\123>  INSTALL H:\123\123). Then change to the 
ALLWAYS subdirectory and run AWSETUP - specify H:\123 as the user 
directory.

5. to start 1-2-3, CD to the system directory (S:\123) and type 123.
Everything seems to work from there. As for the count routines, keep 
track of the file creation dates in \lotshare\123.v22 (in_use.###). 
If users abort the Lotus program (like MAYBE pc-nfs hangs or something
:-) ), the count will be out of sync with reality. The files are easiest
to fix from Unix......

Since I suffered for a long period of time over this one,I hope it will
help one of you. We are half-way thru installation of 83 pc-nfs copies
on a net with over 60 Sun workstations running off 4 file servers. We
also use WordPerfect 5.1 (net killer!) and Harvard Graphics.

Mike Sullivan, Mgr. Information Technology, Mitel Corp.
!uunet!mitel!sullivan     sullivan@mitel.com

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