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From: donp@na.excelan.com (don provan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: NFS Support in NetWare
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.175058.16007@novell.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 01:40:55 GMT
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 17:50:58 GMT

In article <6638@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>It's not only not the cheapest, it's also quite deficient.  How many
>Unix people are going to like the filenaming limitations imposed by
>the DOS filesystem?  (eight characters, then a dot, then three more;
>characters like comma and plus are restricted; etc.)

Your information is incorrect.  Any legal UNIX file name is legal in
Novell's NFS; it does *not* limit itself to legal DOS names.

>I forgot to mention in my earlier article that SCO, Sun, et al sell an
>NFS _client_ along with their _server_.  Is the Novell solution also
>going to offer a DOS _client_ NFS package?  I doubt that Novell is in
>that business.

Novell provides a DOS *NetWare* client with their server.  What would
be the point of also offering a DOS NFS client in the same package?  I
dare say the NetWare client provides much better connectivity with the
NetWare server than an NFS client could.
						don provan
						donp@novell.com