Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!mcnc!wolves!deepthot!Jay From: Jay@deepthot.UUCP (Jay Denebeim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: A Question and a Thought (RemTask() and File servers) Message-ID: Date: 3 Feb 91 07:03:49 GMT References: <28304.27a99513@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Organization: The Software Distillery Lines: 33 In article <28304.27a99513@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >Second, I've been working on an idea for a real simple Amiga only disk >sharing via network. Suppose machine A wants to read Access on >machine B. A dummy filesystem on machine A gets mounted. All it does >is catch DOS packets, stuff it over the network (transport layer could >be any protocol) to server process on machine B. Server Process on >machine B then makes any needed temp buffers, sends the packets to a >"real" file system, takes the reply, stuffs it back to machine A, >where dummy file system fills in reply fields, copies data into >orignal buffers, then sends it back to DOS/proccess. This sounds like our PARNET and SERNET programs. They've been available for quite awhile now. Works over the parallel/serial port respectively. Transport layer is DNET for the serial, and parnet.device for the parallel. (Thanks Matt) >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Mark Gooderum Only... \ Good Cheer !!! >Academic Computing Services /// \___________________________ >University of Kansas /// /| __ _ >Bix: mgooderum \\\ /// /__| |\/| | | _ /_\ makes it >Bitnet: MARKV@UKANVAX \/\/ / | | | | |__| / \ possible... >Internet: markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- |_o_o|\\ |. o.| || The Jay Denebeim | . | || Software | o | || Distillery | |// Address: mcnc!wolves!deepthot!jay ====== BBS:(919)-460-7430 VOICE:(919)-460-6934