Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!rubin From: rubin@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mike Rubin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: NFS availability Message-ID: <13271@topaz.rutgers.edu> Date: Sun, 12-Jul-87 01:44:18 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.13271 Posted: Sun Jul 12 01:44:18 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 13-Jul-87 03:46:31 EDT References: <272@wapsyvax.OZ> <1721@umn-cs.UUCP> <671@uhccux.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 17 Keywords: Sun NFS PC Xref: mnetor comp.dcom.lans:639 comp.sources.wanted:1596 In article <671@uhccux.UUCP>, bob@uhccux.UUCP (Bob Cunningham) writes: > The Sun NFS for PCs does indeed work, and---in my opinion---very well. .... > Also bundled with the current version is a TELNET command with > nominal vt100 emulation for the PC (requires ANSI.SYS). Also bundled with the copy of PC-NFS we just got is "rsh", which is real useful if you want to keep your PC files under (say) SCCS on the server. The only problem with PC-NFS is that it's a client-only NFS implementation, i.e. nothing from outside can see files on the PC's disk; this means you can't really do remote backups of the PC's (the PC user must issue a command to dump his files down to the server, which hopefully has enough empty disk space) and you can't share files among PC's. I don't know if PC-NFS is small enough to usefully run on a floppy-only PC, where it would make the most sense. --Mike Rubin Timeplex, Inc. rutgers!timeplex!mrubin