Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!convex!thurlow From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: PCNFSD V2 (part 1 of 2) Message-ID: Date: 2 May 91 20:54:14 GMT References: <5883@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> <7462@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx. Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: dhostwo.convex.com In <7462@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes: >Taking a quick look at the PCNFSD code just posted, I'm led to ask the >following question: is this the protocol which ftp Software uses in its >Interdrive DOS NFS client, which someone has requested support for in >SOSS? This is the PC-NFS _daemon_, which runs on your Unix NFS server to provide a few special features needed by PC users running PC-NFS. There is no client code, and there is no hint of the code needed to write a general NFS server. Rob T -- Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com An employee and not a spokesman for Convex Computer Corp., Dallas, TX