steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Steve Cliffe) (01/12/90)
I am interested to find out how well Sequents and Suns get along in a networking environment - particularly in terms of NFS and YP. We have a couple of Suns running YP and NFS via the automounter, and would like to get our Sequent to join in. Any info appreciated. Stephen Cliffe, | Phone: +61 42 270810 Dept. of Computing Science, | Fax: +61 42 297768 University of Wollongong, | ACSnet: steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz Wollongong NSW 2500, | UUCP: ..!munnari!wolfen.oz!steve Australia. | Arpa: steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz.AU
vandys@sequent.UUCP (Andrew Valencia) (01/15/90)
In article <6120@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Steve Cliffe) writes: >I am interested to find out how well Sequents and Suns get along in >a networking environment - particularly in terms of NFS and YP. They get along just fine--we have Suns in-house for just this purpose. And we definitely support both NFS and YP. Andy Valencia ...{sun,uunet}!sequent!vandys
jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) (01/15/90)
From article <27742@sequent.UUCP>, by vandys@sequent.UUCP (Andrew Valencia): > In article <6120@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Steve Cliffe) writes: >>I am interested to find out how well Sequents and Suns get along in >>a networking environment - particularly in terms of NFS and YP. > > They get along just fine--we have Suns in-house for just this > purpose. And we definitely support both NFS and YP. Here there is a configuration of a sequent which exports its filesystem to suns. One thing to watch out for is the word order of the sequent is different to the sun. So most binary data files won't be useable accross the architectures. One problem I just bumped into was with named pipes. It seems that I can't create a FIFO special device on the filesystem exported from the sequent to the sun, but I can from a sun exported filesystem to a sun. To repeat, log onto your sun and cd to a filesystem exported from a sequent, type 'mknod fred p' and then do an ls -l. It should appear with a 'p' as the first char in the permissions. However I always see it as an 'l' (ie a symbolic link). -- ______ JANET :jonathan@uk.ac.keele.cs Jonathan Knight, / BITNET:jonathan%cs.kl.ac.uk@ukacrl Department of Computer Science / _ __ other :jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk University of Keele, Keele, (_/ (_) / / UUCP :...!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan Staffordshire. ST5 5BG. U.K.
asp@uunet.UU.NET (Andrew Partan) (01/16/90)
In article <27742@sequent.UUCP>, vandys@sequent.UUCP (Andrew Valencia) writes: > In article <6120@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Steve Cliffe) writes: > >I am interested to find out how well Sequents and Suns get along in > They get along just fine--we have Suns in-house for just this > purpose. And we definitely support both NFS and YP. However, one should note that Sequent's NFS is v-e-r-y old - from something like the SunOS 2.0 release! --asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan) ASN.1 Object Identifier: "{joint-iso-ccitt mhs(6) group(6) 157}"
bak@sequent.UUCP (Bob Kasten) (01/19/90)
In article <76999@uunet.UU.NET> asp@uunet.UU.NET (Andrew Partan) writes: >In article <27742@sequent.UUCP>, vandys@sequent.UUCP (Andrew Valencia) writes: >> In article <6120@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Steve Cliffe) writes: >> >I am interested to find out how well Sequents and Suns get along in >> They get along just fine--we have Suns in-house for just this >> purpose. And we definitely support both NFS and YP. > >However, one should note that Sequent's NFS is v-e-r-y old - from >something like the SunOS 2.0 release! > > --asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan) > ASN.1 Object Identifier: "{joint-iso-ccitt mhs(6) group(6) 157}" Sequent's NFS functionality is based on Sun's NFS Release 3.0.1. It includes bug fixes from later SUN releases. It does support Yellow Pages. Sequent's NFS talks with other vendors' systems. However, newer features of later NFS releases (e.g., Network Lock Manager) are not currently supported. Bob Kasten Sequent Computer Systems