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From: Jons@cup.portal.com (Jonathan S Spangler)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix vs Novell (HA..)
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Date: 12 May 91 09:57:19 GMT
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>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.).
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>-- 
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>Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu
>                             The more things change, the more they stay insane
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By 'NFS client to Novell server', are you talking about NetWare NFS?
I installed it last week -- it is very nice and the only 'pain' I went thru
was because I didn't know much about Unix system administration. 

Aloha,
Jonathan
jons@cup.portal.com