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From: rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PCNFSD V2 (part 1 of 2)
Message-ID: <7481@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 7 May 91 15:14:10 GMT
Organization: Kronos Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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I asked:
>>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?

thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>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.

My question related to the protocol, not the particular side of the
interface.  So, to rephrase my question:  does Interdrive work with
the PC-NFSD software just posted?

My question is motivated by the fact that I do have more than just a
'hint of the code' needed to write an NFS server; I have a server which
could be improved by supporting PC-NFS clients such as Interdrive.

Some SOSS news for those who use it:  I located a bug yesterday in
the STATFS call.  If you try to mount a filesystem which has zero free
space, STATFS will fail and your client system may reject the mount.
I'll be fixing this in a maintenance release soon, but in the meantime
make sure there is nonzero free space before issuing a mount.

-rich