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From: geoff@bodleian.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: SCO and PC-NFS [branching out from Re: FTP TCP/IP+NFS - SCO - rmdir problem]
Message-ID: <3443@jaytee.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 90 13:06:54 GMT
References: <8270@star.cs.vu.nl> <1990Nov21.122633.16277@alias.uucp> <27501638.27050@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <17576@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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Quoth ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard) (in <17576@hydra.gatech.EDU>):
#In article <27501638.27050@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, beame@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Beame) writes:
#> 
#>  BWNFS from Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd. comes with (when requested)
#> the source and executable for a Daemon which supports Authentication,
#> printing, DOS 3.1 Locking and Sharing for SCO Unix. BWNFSD does not support
#> PC-NFS from Sun, just BWNFS. (Sorry that should read PC-NFS does not support
#> BWNFSD).

Or BSNFS does not support PCNFSD?

#Hmmm.  Can a Sun workstation then run BOTH daemons simultaneously, and publish
#the same volume? 

And better still, why should we need to? Carl: how about posting the
source and .x files for BWNFSD so that we can think about rationalizing
things? As you may remember, I solicited input for the next rev of
PCNFSD, and convergence would seem to be in everyone's interest...
-- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM)   --
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