Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!maccs!beame
From: beame@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Beame)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Excelan and Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <273199D5.158@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 2 Nov 90 16:07:48 GMT
References: <9848.6560.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu>
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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In article <9848.6560.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu> Barry Bailey writes:
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> 
>   Anyone use Excelan products (hardware/software) and Windows 3.0? Has
>   Excelan announced/delivered and Windows 3.0 specific products?
> 
>   ps
> 
>   I believe Excelan is a wholey owned subsidiary of Novell, they had
>   offered Novell drivers for their hardware/software packages (LAN
>   Workplace). I am less interested in Novell and more interested in
>   purchase PC-NFS drivers (available on here on campus). Information
>   about PC-NFS running under Windows 3.0 on Excelan hardware/software
>   would be nice, but probably asking too much).
> 
>   pps
> 
>   Does PC-NFS enable each PC ('386 with 4M + swapfile) to share local
>   resources in background under Win 3.0 (i.e. act as a server)?

	PC-NFS does not run over Excelan EXOS cards. The recommended solution
for running NFS over EXOS cards is BWNFS/EX (NFS for the Lan WorkPlace for DOS)
available from Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd. (416) 648-6556.

	PC-NFS, BWNFS or other PC based NFSs don't act as servers. The PC's
can share resources on Unix, VMS , ... hosts, but not from each other.

	- Carl Beame
	Beame@McMaster.CA