Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!styx!kehres From: kehres@styx.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX as a PC file server Message-ID: <21196@styx.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 21:46:06 EST Article-I.D.: styx.21196 Posted: Thu Jan 29 21:46:06 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 31-Jan-87 04:22:13 EST References: <111@eli.UUCP> <1848@cbdkc1.UUCP> Reply-To: kehres@styx.UUCP (Tim kehres) Organization: Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore CA Lines: 38 In article <1848@cbdkc1.UUCP> joe@dkc1.UUCP (Joseph T. Judge CB 1K336 x7119 KBR) writes: > 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. > > The company that markets this is: Locus Computing Corporation 3330 Ocean Park Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 (213) 452-2435 The contact there I have been working with is Julie Reeder. She seems to be pretty responsive. We have not used this product yet, but from the demo's that we have received, it looks pretty good. We should be getting a copy shortly. One additional point - there is a set of C callable routines that allows you to develop applications that take advantage of resources both in the UNIX and DOS environments. Tim Kehres Control Data Corporaton / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ---------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: {lll-crg,ihnp4!lll-lcc}!styx!kehres ARPA: kehres@lll-tis-b.ARPA AT&T: (415) 463-6852