maline@einstein.eds.com (Alan Maline) (02/24/90)
Has anyone ever tried to get suns PC-NFS running on a apollo 9.7 machine. Or does anyone have any experience with ways of integrating PCs into a apollo environment? -- Alan Maline INTERNET: maline@eds.einstein.com Electronic Data Systems Corp. PHONE: (313) 265-7225 750 Tower Drive P.O Box 7019 GM: (8) 365-7225 Troy, Michigan 48007-7019 FAX: (313) 265-5777
johnb@hpubvwa.HP.COM (John Blommers) (03/01/90)
A quick and dirty answer is that PC-NFS from SUN microsysems supplies the client software, and Apollo does have NFS. I'm not sure if the machine supports the PCNFSD program, which handles both the user authentification and printer redirection & spooling, but then PC-NFS comes with the source code, in C, which you can port yourself if you want.
vince@bcsaic.UUCP (Vince Skahan) (03/01/90)
we have pc-nfs from ftp software running just dandy on apollos under
sr10.2 but haven't tried it under 9.7 (because we're almost all 10.2).
no par:icular problems at all that I'm aware of.
I might add that the product looks pretty good to us except for the
inability to do native printing from PC packages (WordPerfect, etc.)
unless you print to a file, get out, and then print to a file (which is
generally unacceptable to us).
Has anyone out there gotten native PostScript to go to a network PS
printer via PC-lpr or the like ??? We can get ascii to work no sweat but
the Postscript doesn't seem to want to work.
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Note: the opinions expressed above are mine and have no connection to Boeing...kent@HUMU.NOSC.MIL (Kent K. Kuriyama) (08/02/90)
I have heard that the NFS implementation from HP/Apollo does not support PC-NFS. If this is true has anyone done the port of PC-NFSD? Thanks. Kent Kuriyama Voice (808) 257-1618 Naval Ocean Systems Center FAX (808) 257-1685 Hawaii Laboratory Box 997, Code 531 kent@nosc.mil Kailua, HI 96734
eero@tut (Pajarre Eero) (08/03/90)
In article <9008011858.AA27274@humu.nosc.mil> kent@HUMU.NOSC.MIL (Kent K. Kuriyama) writes:
I have heard that the NFS implementation from HP/Apollo does not
support PC-NFS. If this is true has anyone done the port of
PC-NFSD?
Thanks.
Kent Kuriyama Voice (808) 257-1618
Naval Ocean Systems Center FAX (808) 257-1685
Hawaii Laboratory Box 997, Code 531
kent@nosc.mil Kailua, HI 96734
At least previously pcnfsd was distributed as C source with pcnfs from
Sun.
Compiling it requires the Sun RPC library, which can be obtained from
some ftp-servers.
Compilation was easy with no "porting" needed.
eero
(this is not an official announcement from our lab)
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------davidb@brac.inmos.co.uk (David Boreham) (08/07/90)
In article <9008011858.AA27274@humu.nosc.mil> kent@HUMU.NOSC.MIL (Kent K. Kuriyama) writes: >I have heard that the NFS implementation from HP/Apollo does not >support PC-NFS. If this is true has anyone done the port of >PC-NFSD? > YES, just tested it and it works. Well, I've got it working under 10.1. Here's the deal. 1. Get the rpc.pcnfsd source from SUN. 2. Get the RPC4.0 source from an info-server (uunet). 3. Compile the RPC stuff (you need to add -Dmc68000 to the compilations in order to get things to compile). 4. Install the RPC stuff (be wary, it overwrites the Apollo /etc/portmap !). 5. Compile rpc.pcnfsd, adding -Dmc68000 to the makefile. You need the RPC stuff installed first to do this. You also need the file /usr/include/stream.h which is part of SYSV. I don't touch SYSV so I pinched the file from a SUN and hacked it. 6. Move the resultant binary to /etc/rpc.pcnfsd, ignoring the rubbish in the install script provided by SUN. 7. Put back the Apollo portmapper. 8. Touch /etc/daemons/portmap. 9. Add these lines to /etc/rc: # # Added by DB, start PCNFS daemon if [ -f /etc/rpc.pcnfsd -a -f /etc/daemons/rpc.pcnfsd ]; then (echo " pcnfsd\c" >/dev/console) etc/rpc.pcnfsd & fi # (of course create the file /etc/daemons/rpc.pcnsfd) 8. Reboot (Obviously you need to be running inetd, tcpd and such but you would be anyway). Test pcnfsd by trying to authenticate from a PC. (Type NET PCNFSD <apollo_node_name> then NET NAME <user> * ) I've not tested the printing stuff but I've never really got the BSD printing stuff working properly on Apollo. Easy ! David Boreham, INMOS Limited | mail(uk): davidb@inmos.co.uk or ukc!inmos!davidb Bristol, England | (us): uunet!inmos.com!davidb +44 454 616616 ex 547 | Internet: davidb@inmos.com