Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!grand!himacdonald
From: himacdonald@grand.waterloo.edu (Hamish Macdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DNET woes ...
Summary: DNET Unix network file system debugging.
Keywords: working on it
Message-ID: <32665@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 89 19:16:35 GMT
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In article <41448@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> jac@muslix.UUCP (James Crotinger) writes:
>
>  Did you install the new DNET executables on both ends? When I went to
>the newest version (w/nfs-handler included in the archive) I somehow
>didn't get the newest dnet onto my Amiga and it wouldn't work. Once 
>I got all the newer versions installed, everything worked as I described
>earlier (i.e. dnet works, amiga clients work, and UNIX clients work from
>an fterm window, but not from the Sun).
>
>  I've never been able to get nfs-handler to work. Anyone else?
>
>  Jim

Blair and I now have DNET working between his Amiga and Vaxen running
the Waterloo version of 4.3BSD.   The nfs-handler wouldn't work at first.
It hung while reading from the DNET connection.  Our debugging efforts
discovered a problem with structure alignment and stuff, not to mention
byte-ordering between the Amiga and the Vax.  

I've hacked up the Unix side (snfs) as well as the nfs-handler on the
Amiga side to allow it to work (and work properly).  I haven't fixed
all the bugs yet, but it's basically working.

I changed the object locking/opening/examining/examining next code
to make it work better.

I haven't tried compiling and running the modified version on any other
version of Unix, so I don't know if it is portable.  I'm using the
internet byte ordering macros for communicating words and longs between
the Amiga and Vax, so it SHOULD work.

Hamish.
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Hamish Macdonald.                          watmath!grand!himacdonald
                                      himacdonald@grand.waterloo.edu
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