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From: pjj@ntrlink.hq.interlink.com (Patrick Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: InterDrive NFS to an MVS NFS Server?
Message-ID: <10443@ntrlink.hq.interlink.com>
Date: 4 Jan 91 21:20:35 GMT
References: <9101021025.aa06564@louie.udel.edu>
Reply-To: pjj@ntrlink.UUCP (Patrick Johnston)
Organization: Interlink Computer Sciences, Fremont, California
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In article <9101021025.aa06564@louie.udel.edu> BRYAN@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (Jerry Bryan) writes:
>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.

Interlink's MVS version of NFS, SNS/NFS, does support pcnfsd.  While I
do not believe that it has been tested with Interdrive (and we are
willing to help test it out) we have tested with Sun's PCnfs and also
with Novell's (Execlan) PCnfs.


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