tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) (03/17/91)
A couple of statements from my point of view:
1) Novell produces network software aimed at pure PC networks,
allowing PC users to share PC resources.
2) Sun produces network software aimed at mixed Un*x/PC networks,
allowing PC users to share Un*x resources.
3) This newsgroup is for the discussion of the NFS protocol and
its implementations.
If you want to flame me for suggesting this, do it by email.
-tih
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tih@barsoom.nhh.no, thelbekk@norunit.bitnet, edb_tom@debet.nhh.noguy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (03/19/91)
>1) Novell produces network software aimed at pure PC networks, > allowing PC users to share PC resources. Actually, I think they now have something called "Portable Netware", intended to run on at least some UNIX implementations, allowing PC users to share UNIX resources....
phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) (03/19/91)
In article <tih.669144514@barsoom> tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) writes: |1) Novell produces network software aimed at pure PC networks, | allowing PC users to share PC resources. | |2) Sun produces network software aimed at mixed Un*x/PC networks, | allowing PC users to share Un*x resources. | |3) This newsgroup is for the discussion of the NFS protocol and | its implementations. In a large company, there will be forces trying to "standardize" on a common solution. If Sun PC-NFS were as good as a real PC network, there would be no problem, but it is not and knowlegeable PC users who don't need to talk to Unix will find Sun's PC-NFS inferior to solutions like Novell. It is my hope that a discussion of the issues involved will help the vendors improve their products. -- The government is not your mother. The government doesn't love you.