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From: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: Sun as server for AIX PS/2 client running DOS Merge
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In article <381@brchh104.bnr.ca> mife001@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (W. Felscher) writes:
>I am using a Sun 707E under SunOS4.03 as server for a
>             PS2/80   under AIX-PS 1.2 as client.
>
>Monting AIX directories from the server works perfectly.  However, AIX-PS
>also has a DOS-MERGE facility, opening a window in which there runs DOS
>3.3 . Filling a server's directory with DOS files permits to read them in
>the clients AIX state, but going to DOS-MERGE on the client results in
>having those files inaccessible under DOS. 

The problem is that DOS Merge is doing a DOS-type lock which the rpc.lockd
on your server cannot recognize.  It requires a new version of rpc.lockd
which (as has been stated) has been provided by IBM for AIX PS/2 and AIX
370 systems.  For any other system, you are apparently out of luck.  So
much for IBM and "open systems".

Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu