perl@PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) (07/19/90)
According to the PC-NFS manual (3.1 or whatever is current) the
UB NIU board is supported with "special software" available from
Ungermann-Bass.
According to Ungermann-Bass they have a product called "NDIS" (~$50)
that loads into the NIU card and sort-of turns it into a NIC board.
But, while it's "sort-of" like a NIC board, you can't just install
PC-NFS for the NIC. UB says I need to get some "special driver" from
SUN to use NDIS, PC-NFS and the NIC. And, this is the best part,...
they've never tested it!! But, says UB, "it probably works" because
they wrote it to SUN's specs.
Anyway does anyone out there know what's really going on. Geoff??
Richard--
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Richard Perlman |*| perl@pacbell.com |*| (415)545-0233 jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) (07/21/90)
In article <1990Jul19.164254.29758@PacBell.COM> perl@PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) writes: >According to Ungermann-Bass they have a product called "NDIS" (~$50) >that loads into the NIU card and sort-of turns it into a NIC board. >But, while it's "sort-of" like a NIC board, you can't just install >PC-NFS for the NIC. UB says I need to get some "special driver" from >SUN to use NDIS, PC-NFS and the NIC. And, this is the best part,... >they've never tested it!! But, says UB, "it probably works" because >they wrote it to SUN's specs. > >Anyway does anyone out there know what's really going on. Geoff?? > UB "sort-of" gave you the answer (strike another blow for customer service! :-) UB has an NDIS driver for the NIU card (and they are the only vendor I know of that has the guts to acually charge for it!) Geoff wrote both Packet Driver and NDIS driver interfaces for PC-NFS (I think you can get them off of sun.soe.clarkson - it's called NFS-KIT). The combo will allow PC-NFS to run on the NIU (if UB did their homework right). BTW: AT&T has an NDIS driver for the NIC (they used to re-sell the MC/NIC). -- John Robert Breeden, netcom!jbreeden@apple.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden ------------------------------------------------------------------- "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. If you don't like any of them, you just wait for next year's model."
delaney@wharton.upenn.edu (05/02/91)
I would like to get some info on AFS, Andrews FileSystem. If anyone knows of some good publications on this subject please post or send to : Delaney@wharton.upenn.edu Thanks in advance Michael L. Delaney The Wharton School Univ. of Penn. 1-(215)-898-9042
rob@cc.mcgill.ca (Robert Macfarlane) (05/02/91)
Subject: Windows-compatible lifeline mail? Reply-To: pickles@mpr.ca ** I'm posting this for a friend, so please reply to him at pickles@mpr.ca Does anyone have knowledge of a Windows 3.0 based mail program that will run under PC-NFS? I'm looking for a Windows-replacement for Sun's Lifeline Mail, without the 32K limit on encoded files. Thanks, Rob Macfarlane McGill University
johnk@gordian.com (John Kalucki) (05/02/91)
In article <1991May1.162016.1@wharton.upenn.edu>, delaney@wharton.upenn.edu writes: |> I would like to get some info on AFS, Andrews FileSystem. If anyone knows |> of some good publications on this subject please post or send to : |> |> Delaney@wharton.upenn.edu |> Thanks in advance |> Michael L. Delaney |> The Wharton School |> Univ. of Penn. |> 1-(215)-898-9042 Contact the folks at Transarc in Pittsburgh. They are developing (have developed?) a commercial version of AFS. They are also on the internet as transarc.com -John Kalucki johnk@gordian.com