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From: donp@na.excelan.com (don provan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: NFS Support in NetWare
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.202252.11029@novell.com>
Date: 20 Mar 91 06:37:41 GMT
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References: <1991Mar9.230016.3431@novell.com> <354@unf7.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 20:22:52 GMT

In article <354@unf7.UUCP> tfb@unf7.UUCP (t blakely) writes:
>In article <1991Mar9.230016.3431@novell.com> donp@na.excelan.com (don provan) writes:
>>Providing interoperability would be a justification for providing a
>>DOS NFS client as a separate product, but it provides very little
>>value as a piece of an NFS product built on top of NetWare.
>
>So you don't think my PC users should be able to access files on the
>Novell server and files on my unix box via NFS at the same time?

I think your PC users should be able to do whatever they want.  I'm
just pointing out that there's no particular reason for you to assume
that NetWare NFS should solve this problem.

NetWare NFS allows NFS clients to access files on NetWare servers.  I
don't speak for Novell NFS development, but it strikes me that you are
discussing the opposite problem: allowing PCs to access files on NFS
servers.  The nothing wrong with wanting to access NFS from a PC, i
just don't consider the lack of a solution in NetWare NFS to be a
deficiency.
						don provan
						donp@novell.com