Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.lans:8009 comp.misc:12450 comp.unix.questions:31114 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!rpi!usc!alhena.usc.edu!ajayshah From: ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Unix vs Novell (HA..) Message-ID: <32656@usc> Date: 8 May 91 04:05:39 GMT References: <42078@cup.portal.com> <1991May07.193108.15803@chinet.chi.il.us> Sender: news@usc Followup-To: comp.dcom.lans Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: alhena.usc.edu In article <1991May07.193108.15803@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: >In article <42078@cup.portal.com> scarroll@cup.portal.com (Scott A Carroll) writes: >> Well this should spur a debate. I need a little help convincing our more >>then brain dead MIS people to STAY with Unix. > >It's no longer necessary to choose one or the other. You can get software >from AT&T, HP and others that will let a unix box act as a Lan-Manager >compatible server to be accessed from DOS or OS/2 clients (AT&T also >supports MACs). Similar setups should be workable using NFS/PC-NFS >or portable netware/Novell. A PC makes sense on most user's desktops Integrating Lan Manager, Unix, OS/2 etc. is a nightmare. A million little things matter -- 2nd decimal places of various version numbers etc. Better to do a simple Unix NFS as the major backbone of all computing and disk storage. The only smoothly humming class of PC-Unix integration products is PC-NFS (by Sun or others). The rest are a pain (e.g., PC as X terminal, NFS client to Novell server, anything to do with a Microsoft product, etc.). -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu The more things change, the more they stay insane. _______________________________________________________________________________