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From: donp@na.excelan.com (don provan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.dcom.lans,amd.sys.pc
Subject: Re: Netware 386 NFS capabilities
Message-ID: <1991May14.170701.17015@novell.com>
Date: 19 May 91 15:16:45 GMT
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References: <1991May7.170934.18198@amd.com> <1991May10.211739.27830@comm.wang.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 17:07:01 GMT

In article <1991May10.211739.27830@comm.wang.com> lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman) writes:
>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...
>
>>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.

This is a funny thing to say.  As Phil points out, there are many
advantages to having NetWare 3.x function as an NFS client.  It seems
unlikely that Novell would ignore that market.
						don provan
						donp@novell.com