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From: po@technet.uucp (Peter Onno)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Networking Windows with Unix: NFS or SMB?
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.155627.19598@technet.uucp>
Date: 19 Nov 90 15:56:27 GMT
References: <272306AE.4A46@tct.uucp> <2731987C.29594@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1990Nov4.192051.24858@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> <1990Nov5.210912.24480@amd.com>
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In <1990Nov5.210912.24480@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:

>|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.

> ...
I've been running FTP's PC-NFS with Windows 3 in enhanced mode with QEMM
5.1 for some time.  Telnet seems to have no difficulty running in a window.

Peter Onno (po@technet.uunet)
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