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From: BRYAN@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (Jerry Bryan)
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Subject: InterDrive NFS to an MVS NFS Server?
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Date: 2 Jan 91 15:26:12 GMT
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On 12/20/90 at 10:57:40 Frances Selkirk said:
>InterDrive should communicate with any NFS server. That's the point of
>a standard, right? The only problem might be with authentification. I'm
>not sure if there is a pcnfsd for MVS, or if the one we include with
>InterDrive can be ported to it...

We do not run IBM's NFS server on MVS, but we do run it on VM, and we
have had terrible problems with it.  It is hard to get a disk mounted,
especially to write on.  Authentication is indeed the problem.  It would
not surprise me to see the same problem exist for MVS.