geoff@bodleian.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (03/06/91)
Would any NFS developer who: (1) reads this group [ok, cute, that's redundant, right?] (2) is going to be at the [San Jose] Connectathon later this month, and (3) has any interest in PCNFSD please drop me email. I'm planning to bring along a development-quality snapshot of source for the next PCNFSD, and want to get together one evening to go over it in detail. (I'll be at Connectathon 3/18 to 3/22.) I guess the reason I'm posting this in a public forum is to underline the fact that we're really going to do it, finally, and anyone who has input but hasn't mailed it to me yet has only a few days left. I already know that people want: - authentication to retrieve all GIDs and home directory info - printer browsing - print queue listing and job cancellation - UID/GID to username/groupname mapping (instead of using NIS) - hooks for custom extensions without having to rewhack the protocol I won't be including anything about locking: the locking protocol is published and stable (even if there's more work to do on the actual implementation). Similarly I don't believe that PCNFSD is the place to do software license control. I don't have ANY input on Mac-related features, so I haven't included any.... :-( My intent is to bring code that will build and run on SunOS 4.1 and SVR4. I don't plan on breaking the 386/ix and other SVR3 variations that many people have contributed, but I may not get around to testing them before Connectathon. It should be a little easier to port the new stuff, since it's going to be done "right" this time, with a .x file and rpcgen'ned stubs. Stay tuned Geoff -- 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) --
beame@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Beame) (03/07/91)
In article <4658@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> geoff@east.sun.com writes: > >Would any NFS developer who: >(1) reads this group [ok, cute, that's redundant, right?] >(2) is going to be at the [San Jose] Connectathon later this month, and >(3) has any interest in PCNFSD > >please drop me email. I'm planning to bring along a development-quality >snapshot of source for the next PCNFSD, and want to get together one >evening to go over it in detail. (I'll be at Connectathon 3/18 to >3/22.) I guess the reason I'm posting this in a public forum is to >underline the fact that we're really going to do it, finally, and >anyone who has input but hasn't mailed it to me yet has only a few days >left. > >Geoff >-- 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, I am doing a talk at Connectathon about this very issue. I beleive it is on Thursday March 21st at 6:00 pm. Maybe we can discuss this and other issues at this time. - Carl Beame Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd. Beame@McMaster.CA