GEustace@massey.ac.nz (Glen Eustace) (02/14/90)
We have a fairly large local area network supporting PCs, about 250 so
far. These PCs run the Sun Microsystems PC-NFS product and are servered
from several Unix machines, a Pyramid, a Sun386i and 4 DECStation 3100s.
One of our departments wants to put in there own departmental LAN and
they want to go with Novell, but they don't want to lose access to the
services we provide on the Campus Network.
1. Is there any kind of bridge/protocol converter or whatever that would
allow a machine in there network accessing disks in ours and vice versa?
2. Could they run TCP/IP based applications in their environment and talk to
machines in ours such as Telnet or FTP?
3. Are there any Novell servers that run on Unix machines, if so which ones?
Any help or opinions would be most welcome,
Thanks.
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Glen Eustace, Software Manager, Computer Centre, Massey University,
Palmerston North, New Zealand. Phone: +64 63 69099 x7440 GMT+12
E-Mail via Internet: G.Eustace@massey.ac.nz
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Quoth GEustace@massey.ac.nz (Glen Eustace) (in <554@massey.ac.nz>): #We have a fairly large local area network supporting PCs, about 250 so #far. These PCs run the Sun Microsystems PC-NFS product and are servered #from several Unix machines, a Pyramid, a Sun386i and 4 DECStation 3100s. # #One of our departments wants to put in there own departmental LAN and #they want to go with Novell, but they don't want to lose access to the #services we provide on the Campus Network. Well, they could always run both Novell and PC-NFS :-) This is not [yet] an officially-supported configuration, Glen, but a countryman of yours has made it all work using the packet driver interface: (Andrew, I hope you don't mind me quoting you): # From ASLEEMAN@waikato.ac.nz Tue Feb 6 17:59:27 1990 # Subject: pktd.sys with NOVELL - Tis Magic # To: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM # X-Vms-To: IN%"geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM" # # Geoff, # # I have just installed the new version of pktd.sys. Things seem to be working # very well so far. Thank you for your effort in making the changes. It is # really appreciated. # # Andrew Sleeman # asleeman@waikato.ac.nz [I then asked about detailed configuration and memory usage, and he wrote:] # From ASLEEMAN@waikato.ac.nz Tue Feb 6 19:09:04 1990 # Subject: pktd.sys & Novell Config & Mem-usage # To: geoff@East # # Geoff, # # I hope this helps. # # config.sys : # # FILES=40 # BUFFERS=20 # install=dos\share.exe # device=\net\pcnfs\pcnfs.sys /f40 # device=\net\pcnfs\sockdrv.sys # device=\net\pd\pktd.sys # device=\net\pcnfs\ansi.sys # shell=c:\dos\command.com c:\ /p /e:1024 # # autoexec.bat : # # set prompt=$p$g # set path=c:\net\pcnfs;c:\unixbin;c:\bin;c:\dos;c:\bat # c:\net\pd\wd8003e 0x60 0x3 0x280 0xd000 # net start rdr wally * # net pcnfsd truth # c:\net\novell\packet # c:\net\novell\net4 # # Output From chkdsk : # # 655360 total bytes memory # 438656 bytes free # # Yes it does seem to be consuming a wee bit of space, but on the other hand # it is going to add an lot of flexibility to our networking environment for # those people who insist on using networked PC's without full time dependence # on our main VAX Cluster. Thanks. # # Andrew Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) ----------- News software that enforces a four-line .signature limit is responsible for the fact that these postings just go on and on and on and seem to end in mid-