Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!peter From: peter@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Peter Wemm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: NFS: and dnet Keywords: dnet nfs dillon amiga Message-ID: Date: 2 Mar 91 19:12:16 GMT References: <1991Mar2.011410.4382@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@uniwa.uwa.oz (USENET News System) Organization: Curtin University of Technology, Computing Science Lines: 35 dlb28311@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Black) writes: >This is kind of a follow-up to a previous thread, and also implicitly >addressed to Matt Dillon... >There was some reference to the reason why NFS: would not work on all >UNIX machines, I believe this had to do with the "word order" relative >to the 68000. A friend has NFS working fine on a Sun machine, and the same >dnet source compiles and runs fine on a Sequent (DYNIX), except for NFS, >which hangs the Amiga end after a few bytes are exchanged over the modem. >I would like to get Matt or anyone else who knows what to do, to post >a fix, or any other clues as to what to do to get NFS running on the Sequent. >BTW, the user accounts on the Sequent are not (official) NFS partitions, >which is what dnet prefers, from the docs. >-- >-- David Black University of Illinois Materials Research Laboratory > Internet: black@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (preferred) > dlb28311@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu > Bitnet: black@uiucmrl > Usenet: uunet!uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu!black%uimrl.dnet Well I spent countless hours mucking around dnet/NFS and eventually got it (sort of) working on a VAX (reverse byte order). But I wouldn't reccomend anyone else using my code because it is a MESS. I dont even know if it would work on a same-byte-order machine anymore. I could probably post the source to you if you really needed it, but be warned that it often locks up when the host load gets too high. Likewise for mailchk. -Peter -- Peter Wemm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ peter@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (if fails, try peter@cutmcvax.oz.au)