Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!chvax!rheiger
From: rheiger@chvax.uucp (Eiger Richard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT as a fileserver for IBM?
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.225849.3956@chvax.uucp>
Date: 6 Nov 90 22:58:49 GMT
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Reply-To: rheiger@chvax.UUCP (Eiger Richard)
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In article <9840@helios.TAMU.EDU> keithp@xeno.tamu.edu (Keith D Perkins) writes:
>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.
>
>
What IBMs are you talking about? If you mean PCs, I suggest you look
into a product called PC/TCP Plus from FTP Software, Inc. (Wakefield,
MA). It supplies you with TCP/IP software (FTP, Telnet etc.) and there
is NFS available as well. A friend of mine is using this to share data
with me on my NeXT and more nice stuff the like.

If you're talking about IBM 6000s, I would assume they come with support
for NFS already.

Hope this helps.
	Richard