Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!think!ames!sdcsvax!nosc!humu!uhccux!bob From: bob@uhccux.UUCP (Bob Cunningham) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: NFS availability Message-ID: <671@uhccux.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 12:54:51 EDT Article-I.D.: uhccux.671 Posted: Thu Jul 9 12:54:51 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 06:23:36 EDT References: <272@wapsyvax.OZ> <1721@umn-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: bob@uhccux.UUCP (Bob Cunningham) Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu) Lines: 43 Keywords: Sun NFS PC Xref: mnetor comp.dcom.lans:620 comp.sources.wanted:1564 The Sun NFS for PCs does indeed work, and---in my opinion---very well. My otherwise vanilla IBM XT with its 3COM Etherlink card and Sun NFS software mounts several disk partitions and directories which physically reside on several Suns and our Alliant FX/8 which also supports NFS. For almost all intents and purposes, the PC treats these exactly as if they were disk drives physically attached to the PC. I've simply copied Lotus and other applications to those disks and run them in the normal ways. I also backup the XT's own hard disk to an NFS-mounted disk. However, note that the MSDOS file format is different than the Unix file format. In particular, MSDOS files have a carriage return (\r) preceeding each newline. The "dos2unix" and "unix2dos" comand filters fix that when required. The commands and utilities that don't work on NFS files are CHKDSK, DISKCOMP, DISKCOPY, FDISK, FORMAT, JOIN (doable slightly differently), LABEL, PRINT (doable slightly differently), RECOVER, SUBST, and SYST NU and similar disk-structure dependent programs probably don't work either. DIR works as expected, and also tells you what system the disk is exported from. The NSF-supplied comands include ARP, CHMOD, DOS2UNIX, LPCONFIG, LS, MV, NET, NETSTAT, NFSPING, NFSSTAT, RPCINFO, SHOWMNT, UNIX2DOS, YPCAT, and YPMATCH The NET command has a variety of flavors, including NET PRINT and others for general administration (mounting, unmounting) of NFS on a PC. Also bundled with the current version is a TELNET command with nominal vt100 emulation for the PC (requires ANSI.SYS).