[comp.protocols.tcp-ip] PCFTP Idrive configuration

mal@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Mark Law) (03/26/91)

In attemting to configure FTP's PC/TCP product, I came across the following linein the configuration file.

[pctcp idrive]
vax = foo.net.com /users/guest/foo i: user fred 

From this it looks like I should be able to remotely mount a file structure and call it my "I:" drive on my PC.  I've been unable to find this documented any-
where in the 2.05 literature.  
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Mark A. Law   mal@terminator.cc.umich.edu    (313) 936-4910
Information & Networking Services            University of Michigan Hospitals

fks@FTP.COM (Frances Selkirk) (03/27/91)

mal@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Mark A. Law) writes:	
> In attemting to configure FTP's PC/TCP product, I came across the following 
> line in the configuration file.
	
> [pctcp idrive]
> vax = foo.net.com /users/guest/foo i: user fred 
> 
> From this it looks like I should be able to remotely mount a file structure 
> and call it my "I:" drive on my PC.  I've been unable to find this 
> documented anywhere in the 2.05 literature.  
> 	

The "idrive" configuration line is for InterDrive, our NFS client, which 
works as you surmise. Since more of our customers buy PC/TCP with InterDrive
(as PC/TCP Plus) than buy it alone, the PC/TCP manual includes InterDrive
information where its exclusion might be confusing to PC/TCP Plus users. 
Here, it seems to have worked the other way around!


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