Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!unido!materna!elwood!tb From: tb@Materna.DE (Torsten Beyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: NFS Support in NetWare Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 91 06:57:26 GMT References: <1991Feb28.175058.16007@novell.com> <`*L&Q*-@warwick.ac.uk> <6995@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> Sender: root@Materna.DE Lines: 20 dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes: >In article tb@Materna.DE (Torsten Beyer) writes: >>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 >If this were true, then diskless workstations wouldn't work very well, >would they? FIFOs and special devices work under NFS but they're >interpreted locally on the client--they do not access resources on >the server. Right. This was what I wanted to say with my previous posting. Pipes and stuff don't work NETWIDE. Of course they do locally.... This however brings up the question if a Novell-NFS-Server could be used as the server of a diskless machine. And you are right, if the Novell ppl do not support Pipes/Devices it probably won't do the job. Comments anyone ? -- Torsten Beyer e-mail : tb@Materna.DE Dr. Materna GmbH VOX : +49 231 5599 225 Vosskuhle 37 FAX : +49 231 5599 100 D-4600 Dortmund 1, West Germany