Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.nfs:1951 comp.windows.ms:10240 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:5164 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!appserv!sun!amdcad!brahms!phil From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.windows.ms,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies Message-ID: <1991Mar13.180625.14540@amd.com> Date: 13 Mar 91 18:06:25 GMT References: <1991Mar9.120940.23851@ukpoit.co.uk> <1991Mar11.232450.5556@amd.com> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 38 In article kv56962@tut.fi (V{{r{nen Kari) writes: |would, however, like to know what advantages there are in Novell and |other 'pure' PC networking softwares compared to PC-NFS. Just out of You can print to an HP Laserjet IIIsi over the Ethernet directly, something Sun PC-NFS could never do, since the LJIIISi talks Novell. The IIISi has a faster print engine (17 PPM), a RISC processor, and a direct Ethernet connection. A beta site said they found some jobs printed 75 times as fast as a LJ II. See the current PC Week. You can also print to the Intel Netport devices. Again, they speak Novell only. Doesn't Sun talk about being standards based? Novell is THE standard in PC networks. With regard to Windows, a real PC network lets you inspect the print queues, pause, resume, and delete jobs FROM A MENU. You can configure the printers, select servers, and server queues FROM A MENU. A crippled network like PC-NFS requires you to manipulate configuration files so cryptic most users never figure it out. User-hostile. PC-NFS requires you to choose a name for your machine. One user chose the name of our server. He wasn't malicious, just confused. He crashed the server. Now, the unix bigots will say "stupid user". That attitude is a big part of the problem. But I don't know if it is possible to make the unix bigots realize that. Most unix bigots would never believe this kind of problem could be solved, should be solved, and would not try. -- The government is not your mother. The government doesn't love you.