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From: joe@cbdkc1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX as a PC file server
Message-ID: <1848@cbdkc1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 16:26:58 EST
Article-I.D.: cbdkc1.1848
Posted: Fri Jan 16 16:26:58 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Jan-87 05:32:40 EST
References: <111@eli.UUCP>
Reply-To: joe@dkc1.UUCP (Joseph T. Judge CB 1K336 x7119 KBR)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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In article <111@eli.UUCP> geller@eli.UUCP (David P. Geller) writes:
>Has anyone crafted a simple fileserver mechanism using a fairly
>generic version of UNIX and one or more PC's. I'm looking for
>something that is close to being functionally equivalent to
>Suns NFS-PCNFS environment without a LAN - using serial lines.
>This would require, I imagine, the following:
>

	I have worked with pc-interface. I used AT&T 6300 with a 3B2.
One way to use it is to attach your Unix login (directory) as an extra
drive for the PC. Another dept. used it for file server - PCs using 
Wordstar(tm), Unix is lp spooler for huge group of these.
Kind of neat. Don't have the info on it (its been a year) but could
get it if intereset is there.



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			Joseph Judge
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