Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!npd.novell.com!news From: jkt@seneca.Sed.Novell.COM. (Jack Thomasson) Subject: Re: TERMINAL ACCESS TO NOVELL SERVER Message-ID: In-reply-to: t_anstey@darwin.ntu.edu.au's message of 21 Apr 91 05:40:25 GMT Sender: news@npd.Novell.COM Organization: Novell, Inc. References: <1991Apr21.151025.864@darwin.ntu.edu.au> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 23:25:35 GMT >>>>> On 21 Apr 91 05:40:25 GMT, t_anstey@darwin.ntu.edu.au said: Tery> I understand that in Netware 386, there is support for the Sun Tery> PC-NFS option. The server provides common disk storage to a Tery> UNIX box via TCP/IP but not the reverse ie the disk is attached Tery> to the server but is accessable from Netware and the UNIX box. we support NFS but not PC-NFS. PC-NFS is a Sun product that allows PCs to access NFS exports as local disk drives (like mapping in NetWare), throwing in (away?) user authentication, security, ... (i've heard). the server you mention above would be a NetWare 3.11 server. Tery> Now this being the case we could have a Netware 386 server with Tery> BIG SCSI drives running a LAN and providing a PC-NFS type Tery> service to a UNIX box. The UNIX box would service terminal users Tery> via TCP/IP ethernet and our existing DECSERVERS. If the data Tery> and executables were being shared and the database system was Tery> loaded on both the server and the UNIX box, then in theory we Tery> are home. We have data and applications being shared between a Tery> UNIX box to handle the terminal users and a Novell Netware 386 Tery> server to handle the PC and MAC users on the LAN. I may not have Tery> the complete story on this as I have no firm information on Tery> Netware 386 other than news and trade sources. right. NetWare 3.11 with NetWare NFS and NetWare for Macintosh allows concurrent file access from PC-DOS, PC-OS/2, Mac, and Unix. Tery> If anyone can pick holes in this by virtue of knowing more about Tery> Netware 386 than I do, not hard!, then I would love to hear from Tery> you. As I feel this could be a very real possibility and I would Tery> hate to waste my time on something that could never work. your choice of database could be limiting, depending on which way you go. otherwise things are looking up. Tery> Tery Anstey Tery> Computer Services Tery> Northern Territory University Tery> Darwin, NT Tery> Australia Tery> INTERNET: T_ANSTEY@DARWIN.NTU.EDU.AU - "The LAN at the end of the INTERNET" -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Thomasson :{)} jkt@Sed.Novell.COM Novell, Inc. / MS C-25-1 / 122 East 1700 South / Provo, UT 84606 Phone: (801)429-7604 FAX: (801)429-5511 "WARNING: the comments do not necessarily reflect the implementation"