[comp.os.vms] Interfacing HP Workstations to VMS

simpsong@ncoast.UUCP (Gregory R. Simpson @ The North Coast) (08/25/88)

Hello,      

I'm interested in any first hand experience people might have with
interfacing Unix Based Workstations with a VMS Decnet network.
My specific situation is this:

My employer is considering the purchase of several HP Workstations.
However, for the purchase to be approved, they must interface cleanly
with our large installed base of VMS machines. My approaches toward
achieving this goal are:

1) TCP/IP interface... Probably the public domain CMU version.
2) NFS ... A commercial product
3) NS ... Hp's proprietary networking
4) NFS'ing the HP's to an Ultrix uVax and then running decnet between
   the uVax and the Vax Clusters...

How good are the above solutions? Would someone on an HP be able to 
easily spool jobs to a printer on a VMS machine using one of the above
approaches? Do you know of a better approach to achieving a high
level of connectivity? Any and all comments are appreciated. Please
mail results to me, and I will summarize if interest warrants it.

I prefer mail to the address shown below, although other addresses
are acceptable.

Thanks for any insight,

Greg    (Prefered e-mail address: simpsong%ltd2.decnet@ge-crd.arpa)


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