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From: pag@tcsc3b2.UUCP (Philip A. Gross)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: STARLAN-10 with UNIX on a 6383
Summary: file transfers with uucp or a copy over remote file sharing
Message-ID: <348@tcsc3b2.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 17:54:18 GMT
References: <3148@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Organization: The Computer Solution Co., Inc. of VA
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In article <3148@cbnews.ATT.COM>, cwf@cbnews.ATT.COM (Cary W. FitzGerald) writes:
> 
> My organization is about to purchase STARLAN-10 equipment for a medium to large
> sized LAN (50-80 nodes).  Most of the nodes on the network will b 6383's running
> UNIX.
> 
> Some of the literature I've gotten talks about "file transfer" and "remote
> login" software.  My question is:  what form do these capabilities take?
> Are there "r" commands (rcp, rlogin), or are these just versions of cu and
> uucp?
> 

We recently installed STARLAN-10 at one of our clients running a 3B2/400
and several PC's on it.  Files could be transfered by either using the
network version of kermit or by simply copying the file to a drive.  In
the later instance, a directory on the 3B2 is "mounted" to a drive on the
PC.  For instance, after you have successfully completed the installation
of the client software on the PC and have properly defined the name of
the server (it is important that you enter '.serve' on the end of the
server's nodename) you then reboot the PC so that it can link to the
server.  Once the PC has linked to the server, you can look at drive N:
on the PC, this drive will be automatically linked to a directory on the
3B2.  On this 'logical' drive, you will find certain DOS programs such
as kermit (a network version) which is used not only for file transfer,
but also for performing remote login.  Other programs available will allow
you to display a DOS directory in a format similar to the 'ls -al' command
in UNIX.

In the case of having several UNIX boxes linked together using STARLAN-10,
you can use cu and uucp to connect to the other machines and transfer
files to them.  There are special entries which are made in the Systems,
Devices, and Dialers files under uucp to establish these capabilities.
If you have purchased the Remote File Sharing software for your 6386's,
then you will also be able to "mount" directories on your server to
directories on the client systems.  This will provide you with a easy
means of transfering files from one system to another, simply use the
UNIX 'cp' command.  Some other interesting ways to share directories
is to mount the '/dev' directory on your server onto a client's system.
Then, say, if the server has a tape drive and the client doesn't you
could perform a backup of the client onto tapes on the server.  Ie, the
backup is done over the STARLAN network.

Good luck with your installation, your installation will probably go
more easily than our own did.  We didn't have any documentation.  The
documentation didn't arrive for another THREE weeks.  But since I had
worked with Bell Labs a couple of years ago with their introduction of
the 1Mb STARLAN, I had some idea of what I was doing.

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The Computer Solution Co., Inc.  	|  I haven't heard what I have
1009 Sycamore Square, P.O. Box 716	|  to say about that yet.
Midlothian, VA  23113-0716	   	|
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