rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) (04/13/91)
SOSS Version 3.1 - A Copylefted NFS server for DOS
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SOSS is a file server conforming to SUN Microsystems' NFS protocol
version 2. It will run on IBM-PC compatibles under Microsoft
MS-DOS, using any Ethernet interface supported by Clarkson
University's packet drivers. Performance and reliability have been
significantly enhanced over the original SOS released in 1989.
It can be used in a standalone environment as a file server for
DOS or Unix users running client NFS (e.g., Sun PC-NFS), or it can
be used within a Novell NetWare environment to provide transparent
access to files on Novell servers via NFS.
SOSS relies on source code taken from PC/IP, a public-domain TCP/IP
package developed at CMU and MIT. It also relies on packet drivers
developed at Brigham-Young University and Clarkson University.
These drivers allow you to set up a dual-protocol stack, allowing
simultaneous access to TCP/IP and NetWare using a single Ethernet
interface card.
SOSS is free software. You may use it within your organization for
any purpose desired. You may redistribute it to other organizations,
provided you do not earn a profit when doing so, that you make source
code available, and that you abide by the terms of the Gnu General
Public License (see the file COPYING).
The following systems currently (or will soon) distribute SOSS via
anonymous ftp or uucp:
System Directory
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spdcc.com pub/sos
sun.soe.clarkson.edu pub/ka9q
iuvax.cs.indiana.edu!sir-alan /u/pubdir/SOS
Other distribution sites are now being sought. If you'd like
to become a distributor, please send e-mail to rbraun@spdcc.com.
SOSS was written by See-Mong Tan, Harvard Holmes, Craig Eades, and
Richard Braun.
SUGGESTED READING
"A Low-Cost Unix/DOS Network Solution for Software Engineering",
Richard Braun (rbraun@spdcc.com), Kronos, Inc., April 1991.
"Network File System Protocol Specification", RFC-1094, Bill
Nowicki (nowicki@sun.com), Sun Microsystems Inc., March 1989.
"Networking on the Sun Workstation", Sun Part No. 800-1324-03.
"Packet Drivers Made Simple", Joe R. Doupnik (jrd@cc.usu.edu), Utah
State University, January 1990.
"PC/IP User's Guide", Jerome H. Saltzer and John L. Romkey,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer
Science, March 1986.
"User Documentation for the Packet Driver Collection", Russ Nelson,
Clarkson University (nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu).