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From: rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Unix/Novell interface
Keywords: DOS novell networks communications
Message-ID: <6062@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 91 14:32:18 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386
Organization: Kronos Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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"Give me DOS software which makes my Novell server appear to be a TCP/IP
NFS server".

I've come up with an idea which should theoretically work if there's a
DOS NFS which can run on top of a TCP/IP running on top of IPX:  I take
a DOS system, throw Novell's client software on it, have it log in to
a Netware server and mount its disks as X:, Y:, Z:, start up TCP/IP,
and start up the NFS server.  Then I should be able to walk over to my
Unix system and NFS mount my Novell files.  The only inconvenience would
be that DOS and Unix treat newlines in text files differently.  And because
I'd have to run this on a separate DOS box from the Novell server, it
wouldn't be as fast as when Novell provides its own NFS server.

Can anyone point me to an NFS server product running on DOS?  Does such
a thing exist?  Has anyone else tried to do this?

For background, I'm working at a company with several dozen DOS machines
linked via Ethernet to a series of Novell servers.  About 6-10 Unix
machines are in the process of being installed; we have not yet brought
up TCP/IP but are about to.  Unix users need access to the plethora of
facilities provided by the Novell system already in place.  (This includes
printers, e-mail, tape drives, modems, etc.)

-rich