Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!sumax!thebes!amc-gw!intek01.UUCP!mark From: mark@intek01.uucp (Mark McWiggins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: WANTED: NFS client software for PC's Message-ID: <1991Feb5.214525.7432@intek01.uucp> Date: 5 Feb 91 21:45:25 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Integration Technologies, Inc. (Intek) Lines: 22 mjs@behemoth.genetics.wisc.edu (Mike Schmelzer) writes: >The subject line says it all. >We've got a Sun Sparcstation that we'd like to use as a file server for 9 PC's. >Seeing as how NFS is an "open standard," and seeing as how Sun wants $195 >per PC (after a substantial discount) for their PC-NFS product, I thought >I should ask and see if there are any 3rd party (or even Public Domain) >versions of NFS for the IBM-PC. We'd only need it for files, not for printing >or anything else. I don't know of a public domain one, and the only other commercial offering I've seen, from FTP software, is more expensive yet. (For commercial sites. Their number is 617-246-9000 if you want to call and ask about academic discounts; I don't know about them.) Please post anything you get on this; I'm sure many of us would be interested. Thanks. -- Mark McWiggins Integration Technologies, Inc. (Intek) +1 206 455 9935 DISCLAIMER: I could be wrong ... 1400 112th Ave SE #202 Bellevue WA 98004 mark@intek.com Ask me about C++!