stevef@bony1.bony.com (Steve Faiwiszewski) (05/29/91)
I don't know if this belongs in .newuser, but it's an admin question,
so I'll post it here...
We would like to have the ability to read news on an RS/6000 from
another system (our gateway to the net, and the news machine). We're
running C news on it, and provide nntp access to our VAX/VMS machines.
Since nntp newsreading is a bit slow, there must be a faster way of
doing this (such as NFS-mounting the news disk and reading the news
directly off that. However, I don't know how to manage posting from
the remote machine).
I'm sure this is a common situation out there in netland. Can anyone
suggest to me what's the best way of doing this?
Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks,
- Steve -
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bang : uunet!bony1!stevef | Reality is Nobody's Dreamhenry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (05/29/91)
In article <1991May29.041629.2812@bony1.bony.com> stevef@bony1.bony.com (Steve Faiwiszewski) writes: >Since nntp newsreading is a bit slow, there must be a faster way of >doing this (such as NFS-mounting the news disk and reading the news >directly off that. However, I don't know how to manage posting from >the remote machine). If you tell the C News build that you've got a configuration with multiple machines running off a server, it sets things up so that posting etc. get punted to the server automatically. (There are occasional portability problems with this; best skim notebook/problems first.) Given that, there is no problem with accessing news over NFS. -- "We're thinking about upgrading from | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry