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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC-NFS and the 3270PC
Message-ID: <1643@east.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 2 Mar 90 13:56:40 GMT
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Quoth lodin@plains.UUCP (Joe Schmo) (in <3683@plains.UUCP>):
#I am in the process of installing PC-NFS on an IBM 3270PC with no success.
#The 3270PC is (to my knowledge) essentially a PC/XT with an enhanced display
#and an IRMA card.  It NEEDS DOS 2.1 to operate.  I am trying to get PC-NFS
#running via a 3COM 3C501 Ethernet card with PC-NFS 3.0.

I'm posting this rather than replying by mail because many of these
points come up over and over again.

First, you should get hold of a copy of 3.0.1. (Standard sugestion.)
Secondly,  it's really important to be precise in something like this:
I (and I'm sure folks from FTP, B&W and others feel the same) need to
see the complete CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. It's also important to
try to capture the exact sequence of screen messages - comments like ...

#When booting, it seems to go thru two out of the three device drivers
#in the config.sys file.  When trying to run nfsrun, all it does is print
#a couple of lines and then returns the prompt.

are not really helpful.

#When I try and execute a "net start rdr pc2 *" it comes back with
#"[PC-NFS INSTALLED]" and then it bombs, even disabling warm boot.

You can try running "net" with a "-D" flag:

	net -D start rdr pc2 *

This will display a little detail about what's going on, although not
necesarily enough to pinpoint the problem.

A full memory map (including drivers) would also be helpful. There are
a bunch of PD utilities to do this. (I don't have any to hand right now -
I always use Soft-Ice.... yes, I know, I'm spoiled rotten.)

Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM)
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