Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: PCNFSD for a VAXstation3100 Message-ID: <6298@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 26 Feb 91 18:30:14 GMT References: <30641@usc> <1991Feb25.221821.22007@csn.org> Distribution: comp Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 18 >I'm amazed that UCX implements NFS server and packages it with NCS >rpc! Maybe there is a level of compatability there that is not >immediately apparent. No, not necessarily. DEC had been involved with the NCS camp for a while; perhaps they decided not to bother porting the ONC RPC libraries, and just ported the NCS RPC libraries. Sun *does* freely distribute the source to the user-mode ONC RPC/XDR code for UNIX (available from assorted FTP sites, and also, I think, available from Sun for the cost of a tape); if you have the time, patience, and experience with UNIX and VMS needed, you may try porting it. (Note: the above is not equivalent to "Sun freely distributes the NFS source"; the RPC/XDR source does *NOT* include the NFS server or client code, and I don't think it includes the BSDish-kernel-level RPC implementation - you have to pay money for that.) Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com