Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!REYES.STANFORD.EDU!samb From: samb@REYES.STANFORD.EDU (Sam Brain) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Unix Based MSDOS Servers Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 89 19:52:55 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 We use Sun's PC-NFS on several dozen IBM XTs, conncted via ethernet to a VAX/750 running 4.3BSD. We run NFS on the VAX which is the server side of things, and PC-NFS on the PCs as the client side. You can "mount" a VAX disk partition as disk D:,E:,etc and see the VAX files as DOS files, and vice versa. You also get print service thro the unix spooling system, and you can also buy a PC mail application which talks POP to your VAX (the mail package includes the source code for the Unix POP server). It all works very nicely for us. If you have a unix source licence, you should have access to the NFS code. I don't know if Sun sells the PC-NFS source code, (for a reasonable price ;-), but they do sell a PC-NFS Programmers Toolkit, which consists of a set of C libraries (for Microsoft C, I think) allowing you to do IPC between VAX and PCs, using either RPC or BSD-style sockets, both stream- and datagram-. That might be enough for your needs. Sam Brain S044 Radiology Stanford Medical Center Stanford, CA 94305.