m-liu@eastend.columbia.edu (Micky Liu) (02/13/89)
I am planning to install Interactive's 386/ix NFS on a 386 box that I have. I was wondering if there are special versions of lockd, statd, and pcnfsd needed to be run on the 386. I have a Sun 3/140 running SunOS 3.5 that needed to have its lockd and statd upgraded to use SMI's PC-NFS Version 3.0. What I need to know is if this is a PC-NFS particular thing. Obviously I will not be able to install the binaries that came with PC-NFS V3.0 since I am not on a Sun... Ideally I would like to be able to use SMI's PC-NFS with my Interactive 386/ix NFS with the least amount of grief... Thanx, Micky Liu arpa: micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu uucp: ...!rutgers!columbia!eastend!m-liu bitnet: malua@cuvmc
geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP ( R.H. coast near the top) (02/18/89)
In article <6160@columbia.edu> micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu writes: >I am planning to install Interactive's 386/ix NFS on a 386 box that I >have. I was wondering if there are special versions of lockd, statd, >and pcnfsd needed to be run on the 386. I have a Sun 3/140 running >SunOS 3.5 that needed to have its lockd and statd upgraded to use >SMI's PC-NFS Version 3.0. What I need to know is if this is a PC-NFS >particular thing. Obviously I will not be able to install the >binaries that came with PC-NFS V3.0 since I am not on a Sun... >Ideally I would like to be able to use SMI's PC-NFS with my >Interactive 386/ix NFS with the least amount of grief... Most systems (at least, those who run any locking at all) use a lock manager derived from NFSSRC3.2, which predated the mods I made to support DOS file sharing and locking. (Can you imagine running a status monitor on a PC? I thought not.) NFSSRC4.0 should have this fixed; however there seems to be a bug with certain versions of SunOS 4.0 w.r.t. the DOS sharing calls, and I'm checking to see if it's in the reference port. As far as I know, no commercial implementations of the reference port are shipping. (Steve - is this true?) You only need the new lockd/statd if you plan to run PC applications such as Btrieve or "[pick your favorite word processor] for Networks" which may break without a functioning sharing/locking capability. If you don't care, just mount the drives with "No sharing control" or "Read-only access" and PC-NFS will omit all lock manager calls. (I.e. all opens succeed regardless of sharing restrictions, and all LOCK requests are immediately granted without checking the server.) -- Geoff Arnold, Sun Microsystems Inc. | "It is well known that the longer one PC Dist. Sys. Group (home of PC-NFS) |postpones a pleasure, the greater the UUCP: {hplabs,decwrl...}!sun!garnold |pleasure when it arrives. Therefore, if ARPA: garnold@sun.com |one postpones it forever..." (Smullyan)