Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!npd.novell.com!news From: bryan@npd.Novell.COM (Bryan Cardoza) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: NFS Support in NetWare Message-ID: <1991Mar20.152719.23264@npd.Novell.COM> Date: 20 Mar 91 15:27:19 GMT References: <1991Feb28.175058.16007@novell.com> <`*L&Q*-@warwick.ac.uk> Reply-To: bryan@urchin.npd.Novell.COM (Bryan Cardoza) Organization: Novell NPD -- Sandy, UT Lines: 19 In article tb@Materna.DE (Torsten Beyer) writes: |cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) writes: |>We've seen the Novell NFS server supports long filenames (256 characters / |>component ?) with unlimited character sets (all 8 bits ?), but does it also |>support hard and soft links, character and block devices, named pipes, Unix |>domain sockets, and such ? | |C'mon Rob, let's be fair. Skip pipes and devices. These won't work with NFS |either (although they do with RFS (to my knowledge at least, any RFS gurus |outthere ?)). Links are mandatory though. And symbolic and hard links do indeed work. -- Bryan Cardoza Software Engineer Novell, Inc. Telephone: (801) 568-8674 Sandy, UT Fax: (801) 568-8866