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From: pwb@newt.phys.unsw.OZ.AU (Paul W. Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Netware 386 NFS capabilities
Summary: it works for us...
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Date: 11 May 91 21:23:49 GMT
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In article <620@racerx.UUCP>, ken@racerx.UUCP (Ken Hardy) writes:
> 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.
[some stuff deleted]

I can't think why this would NOT work! We also have a fairly mixed
network (UNIX/TCPIP, Novell Netware/IPX, RFS,NFS,) and everything works
together smoothly - if you get the right software. For instance it is
perfectly possible to have a PC attached to a Novell server, logged into
a Unix host via a Telnet session or two, have it FTP'ing files from the
Unix host to the Novell Fileserver, or to/from either of these and
one/two/three or more PCNFS links to the Unix server. Ofcourse, not
every TCP/IP package for MESSYDOS can do this, or the hardware itself
for that matter - but some can. 
	In fact, now we don't need to. After installing Portable Netware
on our Unix box, our DOS files are available under Unix and vice-versa,
making transfers netween the two OS's a snap. We can use whichever of
the OS's we want to that gets the job done best. After all, isn't that
what networking is all about?

Mac: Only Apple would name a computer after a hamburger.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Ken Hardy                         uunet!racerx!ken
> Bridge Information Systems        racerx!ken@uunet.uu.net


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