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From: barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies
Message-ID: <29#=N#}@rpi.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 91 15:04:04 GMT
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Debating what a "network" is supposed to be seems besides the point. By all
accounts Sun's PC-NFS seems to be deficienct in its compatibility with a
Win 3.0 PC environment. A product released as PC compatible and Win 3.0
compatible "should" IMHO be recognized by that environment (i.e. Win 3.0
network configuration should be NFS, NOT "No Network"). 
 
Beyond simple installation, I would expect a PC Win 3.0 network product be
able to mount virtual drives from within that environment (not exit to DOS
reset configuration files then reboot the system).
 
Finally, I would expect such a product to take full advantage of the 
environments user interface. To the extent that Win 3.0 is relatively new
and networking products are relatively complex, it seems reasonable to 
have to wait a year before having robust and friendly applications in
hand that take advantage of both. File sharing, rlogin, ftp, etc. are
all now coming to market in reasonable configurations, fairly robust, and
beginning to be user friendly.   
 
Soon our LAN will be connected to our campus network and Internet. We are
using PC's and Win 3.0, the Institute supports NFS. I will soon discover
the wonders of making these worlds work together. Though it seems that my
options have expanded greatly in the past 6-8 months. 
 
None-the-less, let us hope that the next release of Sun's PC-NFS is all but
user seductive; or they may find themselves out of this market, given
competition from FTP, Novell (imagine!), etc.
 
barry


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