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From: rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Novell TCP/IP and NFS
Keywords: Novell, Netware, NFS, TCP/IP
Message-ID: <6499@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 91 16:08:27 GMT
Organization: Kronos Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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karinc@isc.intel.com (Karin Coffee) writes:
>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.

>If anyone has any information or ideas about how to accomplish this, I'd
>like to hear it.

I'm interested in doing the same thing, and I'm willing to make my
solution available publicly.  I've brought up a much more robust version
of SOS (an NFS server for DOS which to which I've added Novell hooks),
which provides seamless access to Novell files.  It would be relatively
easy to add LPD support.

My offer is this:  send me a detailed document describing all of the
TCP/IP packets required of the standard LPD network printer daemon
interface, and I'll add LPD support to SOS.  Then you can have SOS
source and/or binaries, which will allow you to set up a system on
your TCP/IP network to which you could attach printer queues using
standard Unix TCP/IP software.

Anyone who is interested in my beta DOS NFS software (which can be used
either in conjunction with Novell or just to create an inexpensive file
server for a PC-NFS environment), please send e-mail to rbraun@spdcc.com.

By the way, I'm doing all this work so I don't have to *use* a DOS
system day-to-day; I want access to DOS resources from a Unix system.
I don't want to acquire the reputation here of being a DOS expert...

At the risk of asking the wrong newsgroup, I'm also interested in finding
out what it takes to convert a program like SOS into a TSR, allowing it
to be run on a non-dedicated PC or perhaps even a Novell file server.

-rich
rbraun@spdcc.com