aruit@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (A. de Ruiter) (07/26/90)
Hello World, I am investigating the possibilities to intergrate remote file access in our software implementation. Our PC programs are communicating via NetBIOS and TCP/IP with servers on UNIX systems. On these UNIX systems we have besides our own servers also a Name Server (NS), Server Message Block (SMB) and Network File System (NFS) servers. Currently the PC software calls the NS with a logical document name and gets back with the UNIX system name and the directory path on that UNIX system where that document is located. After the location of the document is known it will be copied from that UNIX system to the PC, to do all kind of actions on that document. In the new implementation of this PC software we do not want to copy this document, but do all the actions remotely. To do this we need a PC-NFS or PC-SMB version which can communicate via NetBIOS and/or TCP/IP with our UNIX NFS or SMB servers. Another requirement is that the "mount" and "umount" of the remote file systems/directories must be possible to do dynamically out of a C program. We can do nothing with a PC-NFS or PC-SMB versions which use "static" configuration files in which the UNIX system names and directory paths are described. In our PC applications users are asking for different documents on different file systems on different UNIX systems, so at runtime we need to find out where that document is located and have to "mount" it to a PC drive. I am searching for a redirector based on NFS or SMB technology to implement remote file access through an existing private communication. For example the Microsoft MS-NET redirector does work correctly. It is possible to "mount" via function 5F subfunction 03 and "umount" via 5F subfunction 04. If anybody know PC-NFS, PC-SMB or other applications which can do this, or if you have suggestions to implement remote file access in another way, please inform me. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Philips Information Systems _ __ |Optical Filing Systems, Anton de Ruiter /_| __ /_ _ __ __/_ /__) ./_ _ _|Post Office Box 245, V2-B2 / |/ /(_ (_)/ / (_/(-' / \ (_//(_ (-'/ |7300 AE Apeldoorn, The Netherlands __ ____ ___ |--------------------------------------- /__)/_ ./ ._ _ / /___ |Internet: aruit@idca.tds.philips.nl / / //(_ //_)/_) __/_ ___/ |UUCP : ..!mcsun!philapd!aruit / |Phone : +31 55 433514 |Fax : +31 55 433488 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------