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From: cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI)
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Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.192701.21148@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 91 19:27:01 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.180625.14540@amd.com>
Organization: CAD-Research, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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From article <1991Mar13.180625.14540@amd.com>, by phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai):
> 
> You can print to an HP Laserjet IIIsi over the Ethernet directly,
> something Sun PC-NFS could never do, since the LJIIISi talks Novell.
...
> You can also print to the Intel Netport devices. Again, they speak
> Novell only.

Hmmm...  I wonder if we could find a solution???  If you set a port
as raw on the UNIX side, would this printer then work???  I have printed
to other binary devices, maybe...

> 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.

Actually PC-NFS has a menu driven interface to manage these files.

> 
> 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.

Hmmmm... could this have been an old PC-NFS version.  I had three machines
called the same thing for a time when we screwed up.  The SGI server
never crashed, but PC-NFS did complain a lot about breaking laws of
licensing and whatnot on the PC screens across the network.

					Tom Hite


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