dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (WiseGuy) (05/24/91)
Looking for software package to turn 33mhz 386 pc into NFS server for 5 other PCs as clients running FTP Software's PC/TCP with InterDrive.. The only software I've seen is the public domain SOSS... Anybody got the names of any companies or software packages? ================================================================================ Dave Weissman - Broadband and FDDI LAN Operations Group Snail mail: NSI DECNET (SPAN) - 6153::DWEISSMAN Code 543.8 NSI TCP/IP - dweissman@128.183.112.2 Goddard Space Flight Center SPRINTnet's X.400 - Greenbelt, Maryland 20771 (C:USA,A:TELEMAIL,P:GSFC,FN:DAVID,SN:WEISSMAN) *DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER* I don't speak for nor represent the views of NASA or my company although they would both be happy if I just shut up for once......... *DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*DISCLAIMER*
rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) (05/24/91)
dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov writes: >Looking for software package to turn 33mhz 386 pc into NFS server for >5 other PCs as clients running FTP Software's PC/TCP with InterDrive.. > >The only software I've seen is the public domain SOSS... > >Anybody got the names of any companies or software packages? The reason SOSS exists is because there really aren't many packages available to do such a thing. The only alternative under DOS is Novell; they'll sell you their NetWare server ($6,000) and an NFS upgrade ($5,000) which can do the trick at high performance. If you don't mind running Unix on the 386-33, you can go to Interactive, SCO, or any of a number of companies which have an NFS product. That will be significantly cheaper (the Unix market is far more competitive than the Novell or DOS TCP/IP markets, just because there are so many companies). There may be some companies which will sell you a bare NFS which runs directly on the hardware, without having a Unix operating system under it. SOSS v3.2 does work with Interdrive, by the way; thanks to Geoff Arnold at Sun, I've now seen it running. You have to specify user "nobody" to turn off the pcnfsd authentication which isn't (yet) supported by SOSS. -rich