Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!m2c!necntc!rayssd!dpw From: dpw@rayssd.RAY.COM (Darryl P. Wagoner) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: NFS availability Message-ID: <1119@rayssd.RAY.COM> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 09:27:48 EDT Article-I.D.: rayssd.1119 Posted: Fri Jul 10 09:27:48 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 11:33:31 EDT References: <272@wapsyvax.OZ> <1721@umn-cs.UUCP> <1920@oliveb.UUCP> Sender: dpw@rayssd.RAY.COM (Darryl P. Wagoner @ Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI) Reply-To: dpw@rayssd.RAY.COM (Darryl P. Wagoner) Organization: Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI Lines: 25 Keywords: Sun NFS PC Xref: mnetor comp.dcom.lans:630 comp.sources.wanted:1575 In article <1920@oliveb.UUCP> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry F Aguirre) writes: >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. >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. The new version, PC-NFS 2.0, does have FTP as well as rcp and rsh. We have tested it for everything that we could think of and PC-NFS 2.0 works better than expected. The part that doesn't work is the software that directly accesses the disk. I would expect that an FTP or rcp daemon will be forthcoming. I have the PC-NFS Toolkit and I can see that it would not be difficult to write such a daemon. Of course, since Messy DOS is single tasking it will tie up the system. -- Darryl Wagoner Raytheon Co.; Portsmouth RI; (401)-847-8000 x4089 best path {allegra|gatech|mirror|raybed2} -----\ next best {linus|ihnp4|uiucdcs} ------------------>!rayssd!dpw