rrs11@amdahl.UUCP (02/07/87)
I have a question about LAN software in a mixed machine
environment.
We are about to install an ethernet in our office to connect
a few machines we already have and a few machines we will be
getting in the near future. We already have a few PC clones
(Zeniths) that we plan to attach with 3Com boards. We are
getting a Compaq 386 and a Sun 3/160. We would like to use
both the Compaq and the Sun as file servers for the PCs but
have been unable to find software that will allow us to do
that in a way that we find totally acceptable. Ideally we
would like to run MS-DOS applications on the PCs that use
shared files on either the Compaq or the Sun as trasparently
as possible. It would be nice, for example, to be able to
access the files on the Compac as a C: drive and the files
on the Sun as the D: drive. We could use PCNFS to access
files on the Sun and Locus' PC Interface to access files on
the Compaq running Xenix, but unfortunately we can't do both
at the same time. We could run TCP/IP on every machine, but
it does not seem to provide the capability to access files
as a drive under MS-DOS. If Xenix would support NFS then
PCNFS alone might work, but SCO has told me that NFS is
'under consideration for a future release' which, from my
perspective, means no. If PC Interface would work with the
Sun then we could use it to access both, but Locus seems to
be uninterested in porting the UNIX half of PC Interface to
Sun machines.
Is there some product that we've missed that would allow an
MS-DOS machine to share files with both Xenix and Sun UNIX?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Bob Snead
Future Computing Technologies Group
Amdahl Corp.
143 E 350 S
Rexburg, ID, 83440
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