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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT to PC's
Message-ID: <1403@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 6 Mar 91 05:50:41 GMT
References: <27d42480@epsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Organization: San Francisco State University
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If you're willing to live without NFS, there are some good
freeware TCP/IP implementations available.  Our mainstay is
Clarkson University's package (we need TN3270, sorry), although
the current NCSA beta is arguably better suited.  Both will run
with packet drivers or FTP Software's NDIS-to-packet driver
interface.

There are several commercial NFS client implementations available
(Sun PC-NFS, FTP Software Interdrive, Beame & Whiteside's BW-NFS
come to mind).  I'm seriously unimpressed with PC-NFS, and
suggest looking into competitive products.

Anyway, treat the NeXT as a generic UNIX box; your problem is on
the PC side.  (PCs will always be crippled as long as people
continue to run MSDOS on them... you won't find "solutions," only
compromises.)

The more I learn about NetWare, the less I like it.

					-=EPS=-