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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Accessing PC cards from Amiga (also, NFS)?
Keywords: BridgeBoard, PC, Amiga, Ethernet, NFS, Ameristar
Message-ID: <86118@sun.uucp>
Date: 19 Jan 89 20:55:56 GMT
References: <2482@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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In article <2482@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> (Michael A. Garvin) writes:
Paraphrased : "Can you accesses NFS via the janus.library ?" and
              "What do you think of the Ameristar product ?"

Yes, I suppose your could access NFS partitions via a PC-NFS setup.
You would have get PC-NFS running first (using autoexec.bat) on the
PC side, then use Jlink or whatever on the Amiga side to connect to
it. However when you realize that the cost of PC-NFS is the same as
Amiga-NFS (which includes the hardware) you would note that the 
native Amiga-NFS is the way to go. I use Amiga-NFS here at Sun and
it is quite useful and does everything I would expect it to. At 
some time I hope to be able to mount the Amiga as a server although
that is currently not possible. The Ameristar product has run flawlessly
for me and Ameristar has been quite helpful in answering any questions
I had. So I'm completely pleased.


--Chuck McManis
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