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From: lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.dcom.lans,amd.sys.pc
Subject: Re: Netware 386 NFS capabilities
Message-ID: <1991May10.211739.27830@comm.wang.com>
Date: 10 May 91 21:17:39 GMT
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phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>What's missing, as I understand the capabilities of Netware 386, is the
>ability for the Novell fileserver to act as an NFS *client* and mount a
>filesystem from a Unix host. There are many reasons why this is nice,
>including the fact that our Unix hosts have a nice backup system in
>place. Since we want the file server to isolate our private IPX network
>from the corporate backbone anyway, this wouldn't result in a wasteful
>doubling of filesystem traffic.

>How about it, Novell, would you consider putting this in?

Not very likely.  I think Portable Netware or one of the other
UNIX SMB servers is probably a better bet for you.

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