Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!intercon!news From: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: MacNFS vs AppleShare Message-ID: <2743041A.6AFD@intercon.com> Date: 15 Nov 90 21:09:46 GMT References: Sender: usenet@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Herndon, VA Lines: 31 In article , morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU (RL "Bob" Morgan) writes: > > OK, gentlemen, let's advance to the next phase of features in the Great Battle > of the Mac NFS Clients and their Spokesmen. Do TWG and Intercon (or anyone > else, for that matter) plan to offer either of: > > 1) a program interface to the mount function, so that I can write a program to > automatically mount an NFS volume; > What is the demand for this? We can do it, but there are security issues that would need to be addressed. Please send me email about this. > 2) a Sun-RPC programming library and runtime support, so I can write RPC > programs on my Mac to run over MacTCP. > We will not comment on unannounced products. > If so, approximately when? > > Also, I'll put in a plug for a Mac AFS client, which I think would be a truly > wunnerful thing. But NFS will do for now. > What is the demand for this as well? AFS? -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.