davison@cs.utk.edu (Michael Davison) (05/23/91)
I would like to run the lpd protocol on a pc which also runs pcnfs. Has anyone already done this? How do I interface my process (lpd) with the sockdrv.sys driver? The "how do I do this" question could be answered if the source code to the MIT telnet furnished with pcnfs was available. Anyone know where I could get that? thanks in advance, mike
geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (05/24/91)
Quoth davison@cs.utk.edu (Michael Davison) (in <1991May23.165420.2153@cs.utk.edu>): # #I would like to run the lpd protocol on a pc which also runs pcnfs. I assume that this "pcnfs" is a reference to Sun's PC-NFS product. If not, the rest of this posting is inapplicable. #Has #anyone already done this? How do I interface my process (lpd) with the #sockdrv.sys driver? OK, it looks like it MUST be PC-NFS, because only we have a SOCKDRV.SYS. First, you don't want to "interface your process to sockdrv.sys", since this driver is merely designed to provide a DOS device compatible interface to our TCP/IP. What you need is a copy of the PC-NFS Programmer's Toolkit, which you can order from Sun through the usual channels. #The "how do I do this" question could be answered if the source code #to the MIT telnet furnished with pcnfs was available. Anyone know where #I could get that? The amount of MIT code left in the telnet program is vanishingly small at this point, and in any case all you'd see at the bottom is a bunch of toolkit calls. With a very few exceptions (like PKTD.SYS and RDATE) PC-NFS source is not freely available. (You _CAN_ buy a source kit, but it will set you back many kilobucks....) -- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Sun Microsystems PC Distributed Systems ... -- -- ... soon to be a part of SunTech (stay tuned for details) --
geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (05/24/91)
I just re-read this and noticed something:
Quoth davison@cs.utk.edu (Michael Davison) (in <1991May23.165420.2153@cs.utk.edu>):
# How do I interface my process (lpd) ...
^^^
(I first read this as "lpr".) If you want to run lpd, you can simply
upgrade to PC-NFS 3.5, which includes an lpd-compatible print server.
-- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) --
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-- ... soon to be a part of SunTech (stay tuned for details) --craig@com50.c2s.mn.org (Craig Wilson) (05/24/91)
In article <6332@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> geoff@east.sun.com (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) writes: > >What you need is a copy of the PC-NFS Programmer's Toolkit, which you can >order from Sun through the usual channels. Speaking of the Programmer's Toolkit, is there a newer version out, yet? And is there a Borland C or Turbo C version available? If the answer to either or both of these questions is 'NO', I would like to put in a 'vote' for both of them. I believe that the version that we have has some warnings about using anything beyond MSC 4.0. /craig