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From: rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: NFS server for PC
Message-ID: <7631@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 24 May 91 14:57:19 GMT
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Organization: Kronos Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
>Looking for software package to turn 33mhz 386 pc into NFS server for
>5 other PCs as clients running FTP Software's PC/TCP with InterDrive..
>
>The only software I've seen is the public domain SOSS...  
>
>Anybody got the names of any companies or software packages?

The reason SOSS exists is because there really aren't many packages
available to do such a thing.  The only alternative under DOS is Novell;
they'll sell you their NetWare server ($6,000) and an NFS upgrade ($5,000)
which can do the trick at high performance.

If you don't mind running Unix on the 386-33, you can go to Interactive,
SCO, or any of a number of companies which have an NFS product.  That
will be significantly cheaper (the Unix market is far more competitive
than the Novell or DOS TCP/IP markets, just because there are so many
companies).  There may be some companies which will sell you a bare NFS
which runs directly on the hardware, without having a Unix operating
system under it.

SOSS v3.2 does work with Interdrive, by the way; thanks to Geoff Arnold at
Sun, I've now seen it running.  You have to specify user "nobody" to
turn off the pcnfsd authentication which isn't (yet) supported by SOSS.

-rich