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From: karinc@isc.intel.com (Karin Coffee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Novell TCP/IP and NFS
Keywords: Novell, Netware, NFS, TCP/IP
Message-ID: <1148@intelisc.isc.intel.com>
Date: 15 Feb 91 00:17:15 GMT
References: <3294@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
Organization: Supercomputer Systems Division, Intel Corp.
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In article <3294@naucse.cse.nau.edu> jfb@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Jamie Bradford) writes:
>Does anyone out there know anything about Novell's TCP/IP and NFS
>packages for Netware?  I've been hearing rumours about a TCP package
>for some time, but have found nothing out there.  The NFS I just 
>heard about, but have been able to find no release date.
>

According to my vendor, Novell announced yesterday (2/13/91) that the MAC.NLM
and the NFS.NLM will be released March 10, 1991.  However, in order to use the
MAC.NLM, we will have to install NetWare 386 (now to be called NetWare 3),
version 3.11.

The NFS.NLM will be released in two pieces, one before the other.  I have 
been trying to find out for months just what the NFS.NLM is going to buy
us.  All I could get yesterday was that it will be able to do file
transfer and routing.  I am interested in printing.

We have approximately 60 Sun workstations, 50+ DOS workstations, and 30 
Macintoshes.  There are printers attached to the Suns, printers attached
to the Novell network, and (until I get the Macs bridged in), printers
attached to the Localtalk wire.  We are interested in giving every machine
in the building the ability to print on any printer in the building,
seamlessly.  I know that once the Macs are bridged in the Macs and PCs will
be able to reach all of the Mac and Novell printers, but that doesn't help
the engineer who has a Sun and sits on the other side of a partition from
an Apple LaserWriter.

If anyone has any information or ideas about how to accomplish this, I'd
like to hear it.  We've looked at TOPS, but it doesn't give the seamlessness
that we are looking for.  That, and having to install it on every blessed
workstation!

Thanks!


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