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From: rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Unix/Novell interface
Keywords: DOS novell networks communications
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Date: 25 Jan 91 04:36:32 GMT
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Organization: Kronos Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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dixon@pdn.paradyne.com (Tom Dixon) writes:
>Wouldn't Stans on NFS Server fit this bill?  It is available from 
>sun.soe.clarkson.edu and is often refered to as SOS.

Yes it works.  At least a little bit.  Enough to impress my boss for at
least a day, anyway.  Here's my configuration:

	SCO Unix	DOS		Novell Server
	--------       -------        -----------------
	3C503 card   Interlan card      <whatever>
	TCP/IP       BYU Pkt Driver
	NFS          Netware 386
		     CMU/MIT PC/IP
		     SOS

All three systems are on a single Ethernet coax.  I can then type

	mount -f NFS,soft,rsize=500,wsize=500 dosbox:/y/mydir /usr/me/novell

after logging into the Novell server on 'dosbox' and mappying device Y:.
I get real-time, albeit somewhat slow, transparent file access on my
Unix system to the gigabytes of Novell stuff.  And all for the price of
a couple of Ethernet cards and a minimally-configured DOS box.  In the
future, Novell may be able to provide this directly via software on the
Novell server.  But the Novell NFS is vaporware for the foreseeable
months.

There are some technical problems with SOS, however.  I may switch to PC-NFS
if I can't solve them soon.  The readdir function invoked within NFS
when you type 'ls' hangs indefinitely if the directory contains more than
a few dozen files.  Is anyone out there using SOS from day to day?  How
can I solve these problems and potential others I may run across?  Is the
latest version the 4/90 edition presently on sun.soe.clarkson.edu?

-rich