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From: backman@vaxeline.COM (Larry Backman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: OS/2 LanManager 2.0 question (very technical!)
Message-ID: <1297@vaxeline.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 91 16:25:09 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.012218.19859@tmsoft.uucp>
Reply-To: backman@vaxeline.ftp.com.UUCP (Larry Backman)
Organization: FTP Software, Inc.
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In article <1991Jan10.012218.19859@tmsoft.uucp> mshiels@tmsoft.UUCP (Michael A. Shiels) writes:
>
>I am hoping someone @microsoft will see and respond to this but amybe
>someone else knows things about this.
>
>
Probably not...

>b) we currently use our own home brew LAN which has a very nice feature.
>   it allows what we call hierarchical networks.  Ie lan A has a "server"
>   and a workstation on lan A which just happens to be the "server" for
>   lan B.  So the lan B server actually does the equivalent of net use's
>   from the lan A server and then provides them as drives to users on the
>   lan B network.
>
>BIG PROBLEM.  This doesn't work under Lan Manager.  So you also can't do things
>like have your server bring in a bunch of DECnet or NFS drives and share
>them with all your users.


I have experienced the same problem with my NFS IFS.  I can run the
NFS IFS on the same machine as a LAN Manager server and merrily
copy files from NFS drives to LANMAN remote & local drives.  However,
when I do the following....

	mount z: //sun/usr/xx/yy/z    #mount an nfs drive
	net share sun=z:\
I get the <command completed successfully> message.
Another LANMAN client than is able to

	net use g: \\gatewaymachine\sun
and gets the same <command completed successfully> message from LANMAN.
However any access of <g:> fails with a <drive not found> msg.

I brought this issue up with Microsoft & was told that LANMAN distinctly
protected against allowing access to remote drives to avoid a 
circular share/use loop.

Oh well; it could have been a great product....


				Larry Backman
				backman@ftp.com