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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Networking Windows with Unix: NFS or SMB?
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Date: 5 Nov 90 21:09:12 GMT
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|I understand that FTP's NFS and Sun's PC-NFS will work with Windows
|3.0; if not, please let us know!  Then the NFS support for Unix can
|be purchased from the Unix vendor.

It depends on what you mean by "work". If you mean, can you transfer
files, yes, Sun's PC-NFS will let you do that. If you mean "does it
support printers as nicely as Novell, with BROWSE etc", no, the user
interface for that has not changed. If you mean "does telnet run
in a window", the answer is no, it does not.

So when the vendor tells you it works, find out exactly what is
meant by that. Better yet, figure out what YOU need and make sure
the product does that.

BWNFS is a lot better than PC-NFS in this regard. The version
I saw at InterOP did run telnet in a window. The performance
was less than optimal but perhaps that will improve.

The FTP person I spoke to at InterOP claimed the Win3 market was too
small for them to service. I don't think I need to say anything more.

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