Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.nfs:1957 comp.windows.ms:10262 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:5168 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!gkcl!aronb From: aronb@gkcl.ists.ca (Aron Burns) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.windows.ms,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies Message-ID: <20171@ists.ists.ca> Date: 14 Mar 91 18:19:27 GMT References: <1991Mar9.120940.23851@ukpoit.co.uk> <1991Mar11.232450.5556@amd.com> <1991Mar13.180625.14540@amd.com> Sender: news@ists.ists.ca Reply-To: aronb@gkcl.UUCP (Aron Burns) Followup-To: comp.protocols.nfs Organization: y Lines: 55 In article <1991Mar13.180625.14540@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes: >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. > At recent presentation, an HP rep indicated that the IIIsi would talk IP shortly. It's a great concept, as you bypass the spooler on the file server. I don't know how it would work with PC-NFS (probably not, until PC-NFS was changed to send output to an IP address directly). [...] >Doesn't Sun talk about being standards based? Novell is THE standard >in PC networks. Show us the RFC :-) >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 Not at all. Run NFSCONF. It changes the configuration files FROM A MENU and has pretty colours as an added bonus. >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. so who let him configure his own machine? Who could expect a user to understand an IP address and pick a machine name? You do this once on initial install. >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. See my last paragraph. I don't think the user was stupid. >The government is not your mother. >The government doesn't love you. This we agree on. Aaron Burns "Nothing I say on the net is binding aronb@gkcl.ists.ca to our corporation" Toronto, Ontario "Life is a forge, and the purest metal (416)392-4310 comes from the hottest fire"