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From: kenh@techbook.com (Ken Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Q--Can fileserver access local disks?
Message-ID: <1991May6.135828.354@techbook.com>
Date: 6 May 91 13:58:28 GMT
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In article <1991May3.003120.13929@eng.umd.edu> rfink@eng.umd.edu (Russell A. Fink) writes:
>I'm running Novell 386.  I'm wondering if the file server can access the
>hard drives of the local terminals connected to it?  
Nope.  Not unless someone has written an NLM to do it recently.
>

If you consider the extra net traffic generated by  such an architecture,
not to mention the additional overhead at both fileserver and workstation,
you begin to get a picture of why this isn't a "neat" idea as you might
think.  There are peer-to-peer lans available.  One inexpensive one that
I've heard works great is LANTASTIC by Artisoft.  MAP ASSIST by Fresh
Technologies will allow workstation to workstation disk sharing over Novell's
IPX/SPX protocol, but it has some limitations.  Nothing I know of will
go from file server to workstation, except the new backup programs.



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