robert@cantuar.UUCP (05/31/87)
This is essentially a re-post. I originally posted to comp.sys.sun, but
after a month I haven't had even *one* response. I hope to do better here.
We have a Vax 750 running 4.3BSD, and have recently got a Sun and plan to
get more. The Vax and the Sun are connected with ethernet, and everything goes
just fine, even rwho now. But we'd really like NFS to span the machines,
both so we can use the Vax's space for the one Sun now, and so the Vax can
use space on a Sun FileServer we hope to get. We thought getting NFS
software for the Vax would be simple, but is it? Sun have offered us
their NFS distribution which is for 4.2 and is US$1,000; Mt. Xinu have their
integrated 4.3 offering for US$3,000 (plus a license upgrade for us).
Both are university prices.
I would think there are other options, but we don't know them. We have RPC,
and I suppose we could even have a go at doing it ourselves...
Anyway, what we want is *advice*! Which is the best way to go? The cheapest?
The best value for money? The most *deeply* *satisfying*...
Any nod in DECnet's direction might be useful, as the rest of our university
are VMS devotees.
Please mail to me, and if I get useful information I'll post a summary for
other innocent wide-eyed sites like us.
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Computer Science, University Of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealandmkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (06/15/87)
In article <122@cantuar.UUCP> robert@cantuar.UUCP (Robert Biddle) writes:
...
+use space on a Sun FileServer we hope to get. We thought getting NFS
+software for the Vax would be simple, but is it? Sun have offered us
+their NFS distribution which is for 4.2 and is US$1,000; Mt. Xinu have their
+integrated 4.3 offering for US$3,000 (plus a license upgrade for us).
+Both are university prices.
+I would think there are other options, but we don't know them. We have RPC,
...
DEC's Ultrix 2.0 is supposed to have NFS. You might not care that much since
you already have 4.3bsd, but it's an alternative to consider. I expect DEC
only sells their NFS bundled with Ultrix.
Mike Khaw
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