Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!sharkey!umich!vela!rdthomps From: rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT as Server for (IBM) PC's Message-ID: <3704@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 6 Nov 90 14:24:31 GMT Reply-To: rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson) Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI Lines: 18 >I'm thinking of putting in a network of IBMs hooked into a NeXT. I'd >like the IBMs to see the NeXT over the network as just a large >hard drive. Is there any way to make the IBM do this. The NeXT >looks like the perfect machine for a fileserver, I'm just not >sure the IBMs are up to it. I am also looking at this possibility. From the information that I have gathered, you should use PC-NFS (PC Network File System) on the MS-DOS machines (works with Windows!) that access the NeXT; the NeXT OS comes with NFS. I am still waiting on the NeXT so I have yet to implement this. Good Luck!