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From: brian@la.excelan.com (Brian Meek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: NFS Suppoart in NetWare
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.175748.22511@novell.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 07:12:30 GMT
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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 1991 17:57:48 GMT

In article <2188@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> comp.sys.novell writes:
>>From:         Janet Perry <janetp%NOVELL.COM@uga.cc.uga.edu>
>
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>
>>NetWare NFS provides the following services:
>>
>>-o-  Transparent integration of UNIX workstations into the
>>NetWare environment -- UNIX users access NetWare services
>>through their familiar command set, while other NetWare
>>clients view UNIX files from the perspective of their
>>native file systems.  UNIX clients attach to NetWare
>>servers via the UNIX "mount" command, view the NetWare file
>>system as an extension of the distributed UNIX file
>>systems, access NetWare print queues through the UNIX "lpr"
>>command and transfer files to and from the server via FTP
>>(File Transfer Protocol).
>
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>This handles unix hosts accessing novell services.  What about novell
>clients accessing unix services?  Any facilities for a novell server
>mounting NFS volumes and providing access to them for it's DOS, Mac,
>and OS/2 clients?  How about sending jobs from a Novell print queue to
>an lpd daemon on the Unix side?  Is this a one or two way gateway?
>
>Dan DeNise                              c0016@umrvmb.umr.edu
>
NetWare NFS was not designed to provide access to remotely mounted
NFS volumes for NetWare clients.  NetWare NFS was targeted at the
Unix users who want high performance access to shared NetWare resources.

I should point out that Portable NetWare provides the feature you are 
looking for.  One Unix machine, with multiple remote NFS volumes mounted,
can load up Portable NetWare and offer that distributed Unix file system
as one big NetWare volume to any NetWare client.

Portable NetWare is an integration product.  So is NetWare NFS, but NetWare
NFS is really a targeted solution for Unix clients to NetWare servers.

brian
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         Brian Meek       Novell, Inc. - 2180 Fortune Dr. San Jose, CA 95131
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