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From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
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Subject: Re: Is pc-nfs useful to anyone?
Keywords: pc-nfs, unix, sun
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Date: 16 Mar 91 05:11:49 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.051003.6212@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>If you give 100 users a PC-NFS package and one page of instructions,
>almost certainly at least one of them will give his PC the same
>name as the server and crash the server. If you do all the installs
>yourself this is much less likely to happen. (what a bother)
>
>Stupid users. Bad users. Wish they'd leave my nice Sun alone instead
>of causing trouble. They seem to want to get work done instead of
>just admiring how wonderful a Sun is.

We have over 100 users of PC-NFS and we don't have this problem. Perhaps
the reason we don't have it is because we have PC people that install the 
software for the users.

I guess this is a really novel (not NOVELL) concept. It works really well
for us. It's not really a bother. This way we are able to know who gets
upgrades when the next releases come out. We handle all the software we
support this way.

An aside: Since Phill started this thread of articles following information
about PC-NFS 3.5, I wonder if his comments are based on experience with
PC-NFS 3.5. If they are, they have serious implications for me. If they are
not, they are mostly irrelevant to me.



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