dixon@pdn.nm.paradyne.com (Tom Dixon) (03/05/89)
Do you have experience with Novell of PC NFS? If you do, please read on... I need some help with a networking software decision and I hope this group can help. The group I work for develops 'C' on PC AT's in standalone configuration. We develop 8086 rom code so the decision seemed logical five years ago when the present configuration was set up. We have a central machine which runs Polytron as a Librarian and uses Polymake to build versions of code from the archives. A new group has been added recently who perform similar tasks to our group and use Vaxes for their development. We will have to work closely with them and share mail, files and development discussions. Other groups in the company which we interface with infrequently (perhaps too infrequently) use Suns and other Unix machines to develop software. A study group was formed to study overall conectivity issues. The result of that study group was to wire with ethernet and bridge each department to each other for fault and traffic isolation. So we are going to get an ethernet and 386 file server. The outstanding issue is what networking software we should use. We are considering PC NFS and Novell. I think that if we want to communicate with the other groups locally, we need NFS. But other people in the group don't want to stray too far from IBM so they are crying for Novell. In our situation, which would be a better solution and why? Any help, reasoning, personal experince or other would be appreciated. If you would like a summary of the information gathered, please email and ask and I'll email you the summary. Thomas M. Dixon Jr. uunet!pdn!dixon Software Engineer, Paradyne Corp. (813) 530 - 8358 - Voice I speak for myself and myself alone. 'nuf said.