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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Integrating Apollo into Sun NFS
Message-ID: <56729@sun.uucp>
Date: 15 Jun 88 23:24:13 GMT
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> You don't use the normal NFSD for the PC (even on a Sun running
> as the server for the PC).

If by "the normal NFSD" you mean the process started by running
"/usr/etc/nfsd", you most definitely *do* use it for the PC; as I pointed out
before, PC-NFS uses the NFS protocol for file access, which means a PC client
talks to the exact same NFS server as all other NFS clients do.

"pcnfsd" provides some sort of record-locking service, not raw file access.

> If I remember correctly, the PCNFSD server does no file conversion as the
> file is transfered from the PC to the server (Apollo, Sun, or whatever),

Since the "pcnfsd" server doesn't do file access, this is trivially correct;
"nfsd" doesn't do file conversion either.