Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!hydra!droms From: droms@jasper.bucknell.edu (Ralph E. Droms) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Unexpected "gotchas" with PC-NFS ??? Message-ID: Date: 13 Apr 91 03:22:08 GMT Sender: news@hydra.bucknell.edu Reply-To: droms@bucknell.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa. Lines: 21 I have some colleagues in mechanical and elecctrical engineering who are about to put together a small lab of 10 PS/2s (I've forgotten which model) to be interconnected and connected to the campus network with ethernet - perhaps 10baseT. What is desired is file and printer sharing, telnet and ftp, and TCP/IP access to other services on the campus net. These PCs will not be used as "personal workstations", so services like mail will not be needed. I'd like to suggest that my colleagues install PC-NFS on their PCs, as we already have 5 Sun servers and 40+ diskless clients running here at Bucknell, we have PC-NFS running on a single PC in the CS Dept. We also have several other TCP/IP hosts, which could be accessed through PC-NFS, as well as other Internet hosts. I'm not a very heavy MS-DOS user - am I missing something major? Is there an important reason *not* to choose PC-NFS or to choose some other network software? -- - Ralph Droms Computer Science Department droms@bucknell.edu 323 Dana Engineering Bucknell University (717) 524-1145 Lewisburg, PA 17837