[comp.dcom.lans] Q&A on PC-NFS

alan@curly.Viewlogic.COM (Alan Medsker) (03/13/91)

One of our guys in Europe has installed PC-NFS on PCs in his office, using a SPARCstation
as a server, and is trying to use the Q&A database with it.  The database file(s) are on
the SPARC, and he finds when he accesses the files from more than one station they
eventually get trashed, pointing to a file locking problem.  The Q&A people that he's
talked to indicate that they don't have any experience with PC-NFS, but it works well with
NetWare (surprise).  I don't know if Q&A uses NetWare specific locking or not, so I don't
know if that's the problem.

So, I guess the question is, what's the difference that's causing his problems?

BTW, he also asked how to keep all drives through Z: from showing up (messes up Windows
displays something fierce) in PC-NFS?

Thanks in advance--please reply via email to amedsker@Viewlogic.COM (what's in the header
will also work).

Alan

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