jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller) (05/11/91)
ash@omega.UUCP (Andrew Hardie) writes: > Not quite sure why this is in tcp-ip list, but still ... The thread was started by someone asking a networking question: is it possible to have a DOS machine act as a file server and have a Unix box as client? Things are usually done the other way around, after all. The need would arise if you have a peripheral like a CD-ROM that is supported by DOS but is not supported by your flavor of Unix. Comp. protocols.nfs and comp.protocols.tcp-ip seem like likely places to pick up leads on a question like this. > > We're trying to use a CD-ROM reader under Interactive Unix 2.2 without > > much success. > > I'm having no success at all. > > > ISC doesn't know how to mount ISO-9660 CD-ROMS as Unix file-systems Interactive is supposedly working on a driver to support ISO-9660 filesystems and make them mountable, but this isn't even promised Real Soon Now .... just Someday. I need those files off that CD-ROM before then (assuming then ever arrives at all) so I'm investigating other ways to access the drive other than direct mounting under Unix. ONE possible arrangement seems to be something like this: ISC Unix machine DOS machine ---------- CD-ROM ethernet card ---------------------- ethernet card ISC NFS Clarkson packet driver soss NFS server for DOS There may be more to it than that; I've seen conflicting messages about whether soss requires the MIT PC/IP package. Also this kind of lashup requires a fair amount of money since ethernet cards aren't free and neither is ISC's NFS. You could probably work up a similar rig with ISC TCP/IP and ka9q. In my case all I have to do is get files off the CD-ROM and onto my hard drive, so a much cheaper method (though it won't impress Flash Gordon) is Unix DOS -----------CD-ROM serial port ------------------------ serial port zmodem zmodem To do this at a respectably high speed all I'd need to buy is a couple of 16550 UARTS for the serial cards. But I gather in your situation you want your data to *stay* on the CD-ROM. For that, barring an unexpected deus ex machina from ISC probably some form of networking is what you'll have to do. ------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- crom2 Athens GA Public Access Unix | i486 AT, 16mb RAM, 600mb online | AT&T Unix System V release 3.2 Molecular Biology | Tbit PEP 19200bps V.32 V.42/V.42bis Population Biology | Ecological Modeling | Admin: James P. H. Fuller Bionet/Usenet/cnews/nn | {jim,root}%crom2@nstar.rn.com ------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------