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) -- --- Gregory R. Simpson Prefered Internet: SIMPSONG%LTD2.decnet@ge-crd.arpa or Alternate Internet: necntc!ncoast!simpsong@harvard.HARVARD.EDU UUCP: <BACKBONE>!cbosgd!ncoast!simpsong UUCP: {ames,mit-eddie,harvard,talcott}!necntc!ncoast!simpsong