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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.protocols.novell
Subject: Re: Is pc-nfs useful to anyone?
Keywords: pc-nfs, unix, sun
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Date: 18 Mar 91 19:24:17 GMT
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In article <4750@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:
|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.

Then you have the added expense of people to install PC-NFS. Believe it
or not, Novell IS easy enough to install at the client level that most
users can do it themselves.

|I guess this is a really novel (not NOVELL) concept. It works really well

No, it's not novel, just expensive. If you are rich enough to have it,
good for you. Since budget is a concern for most people, I felt it
appropriate to point out this additional expense associated with Sun PC-NFS.

|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.

My comments are based on a careful reading of the Sun Press Releases
and magazine articles, some of which actually have pictures.  If I have
made any errors of fact, I welcome corrections from Sun, whom I believe
to read this group.

Which issues have serious implications for you? Since you have around
100 Sun PC-NFS installations, what have I said that is news for you?

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