Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!oliveb!jerry From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: NFS availability Message-ID: <1920@oliveb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 16:39:49 EDT Article-I.D.: oliveb.1920 Posted: Thu Jul 9 16:39:49 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 02:05:19 EDT References: <272@wapsyvax.OZ> <1721@umn-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry F Aguirre) Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca Lines: 35 Keywords: Sun NFS PC Xref: utgpu comp.dcom.lans:568 comp.sources.wanted:1357 Summary: Sun PC/NFS cost ~$300. In article <1721@umn-cs.UUCP> fischer@umn-cs.UUCP (Scott Fischer) writes: >SUN makes a PC-NFS that I'm currently waiting to receive more information >on. I really don't know how well it works or how much it costs, but I >thought I'd mention it. It costs about $300 per copy. A built in check will shut it down if it "see"s another copy with the same serial number on the same network. It provides telnet with vt100 emulation, printer redirection, and the use of virtual drives that are actually on a host. There is no server mode so you can't do any PC to PC interaction. Sending a file from one PC to another would involve using a server as and intermediary. There is NO file transfer command so if you want to get something off a host without NFS or something that was not exported then you again have to use the NFS host as an intermediary. NFS is nice but a version of ftp would fill in the gaps. It is possible to execute binaries from the server. This makes it practical to boot off a floppy and run without a hard disk. Your programs and data files can all be on the server. Aside from sharing storage the important advantage is that the user no longer has to worry about backing up his hard disk. The maintainers of the server system can do that. Of couse when the server is down ... I have tried it out here but, unfortunately, the sun we were using as a server is connected thru a slow gateway. This made it impossible to see what the local speed would be but did demonstrate the robustness of the code. (The sun server was 10,000 miles away in Italy connected by a 4800 baud satilite link. About as remote a file system as you can get.) We plan to get NFS for our 4.3BSD Vaxen. Mt. Xinu has it with and without source. You can get their complete 4.3+bug fixes+NFS or you can get an add on package with just the NFS additions for a straight 4.3BSD system. Jerry Aguirre