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From: ken@racerx.UUCP (Ken Hardy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Netware 386 NFS capabilities
Summary: Novell & NFS
Message-ID: <620@racerx.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 91 21:50:09 GMT
References: <1991May7.170934.18198@amd.com> <1991May7.232850.7748@engin.umich.edu>
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Organization: Bridge Information Systems, St. Louis
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In article <1991May7.232850.7748@engin.umich.edu>, jal@acc.flint.umich.edu (John Lauro) writes:
> I stay away from NFS, but that would work too.  (Using any existing NFS software you
> are currently using.  Don't know if you can run NFS and Novell at the same time or not.)

Does anyone know this ???  I might find out myself, though if it does'nt work,
I won't necessarily know if it is impossible of if I did something wrong.

What I want to try is to run an NFS server program (SOSS) on a '386 logged into
our Novell file server so that my Suns can access the Novell server's disks by
mounting them over NFS.  Sounds spooky enough that I'll be inclined to believe
anyone who gives me a halfway believable explanation of why it won't work.  But
I'm going to try it as soon as I can get SOSS up.  I'll use two network cards
if necessary.  The crux of the matter, I believe, is how both SOSS and Novell
get themselves into the DOS filesystem handlers and whether SOSS will serve
drives being served to it by NetWare.  I'm definitely not a guru in this area.

The referenced article almost makes it sound (in a part not quoted here)
as if NetWare can serve as an NFS server.  Is this so?  I am not one of those
responsible for our NetWare server (being one of those Un*x bigots ;->

If NetWare can do this for me, it sounds like I'm wasting a lot of effort
(though it still sounds fun to try).  I guess I could go ask those in our
organization who know NetWare ...

BTW, our network has a lot of everything running on it ... Novell NetWare file
servers, Suns talking NFS, IPX and NetBios datagrams broadcasting from data
servers.  No problems.


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Ken Hardy                         uunet!racerx!ken
Bridge Information Systems        racerx!ken@uunet.uu.net