hhg1@GTE.COM (Hallett German) (01/11/91)
1. PC-NFS works well with DOS 5.0. The Dos shell sees the network drive. Just thought I mention this. 2. I am having a problem with Mac-NFS (See 3). Wollongong suggested that SUN add an option to the PCNFSD server to set the attributes of a file to be created. 3. I am trying to share files between a PC and a Mac. The PC uses Sun's PC-NFS, the MAC uses Wollongong's Pathway NFS. The NFS volume is using Wollongong's NFS for VMS. To copy a text file, I use ftp with no problems. For some reason, Wollongong has it set so any file with a VMS Executable protection is not seen as a text file and it will have no creator/type on the Mac. Removed the Executable option makes it ionto a text file. Going into VMS after every ftp is ridiculous. SET PROTECT/DEFAULT won't work. Wollongong said they may add this to their MACNFSAD daemon. This product has possibilities but Wollongong seems to be selling a product that was not ready for market yet. A bug fix release in March is a good start
geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (01/14/91)
Quoth hhg1@GTE.COM (Hallett German) (in <10364@bunny.GTE.COM>): #2. I am having a problem with Mac-NFS (See 3). Wollongong suggested that # SUN add an option to the PCNFSD server to set the attributes of a # file to be created. Hallett obviously realizes this, but let me just emphasize that this has absolutely nothing to do with PCNFSD... After all, if an NFS client wishes to set the attributes of a remote file it can simply issue RFS_GETTATTR and RFS_SETATTR RPCs. If TWG is in fact suggesting that their VMS server needs to support additional over-the-wire mechanisms above and beyond the set of services befined by the NFS protocol spec, and that these services should somehow be integrated into PCNFSD, I suggest that they're wrong: they should simply define (and publish) an RPC spec for the service. The implementation details are secondary. On the subject of PCNFSD enhancements, I'm still waiting for input (such as the publication of the BWNFSD RPC which was discussed earlier). In the X/Open PC Interworking Group we are considering our schedule for revision of the (PC)NFS spec, and we need all the input (new PCNFSD's, Mac stuff, etc. etc.) as soon as possible. (I am speaking here as a member of the WG, not _for_ the WG.) Geoff -- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."-- ----------------------------(Bertrand Russell)--------------------------------
beame@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Beame) (01/14/91)
This is in response to several question about BWNFS. 1) BWNFS supports WordPerfect correctly and unlike PC-NFS and InterDrive, BWNFS spools the print jobs immediately after the job has been printed without user intervention. 2) BWNFS runs currectly under DOS 5.0 after running the command: "setver bwnfs.com 4.0". Geoff didn't comment on the claim that PC-NFS runs under DOS 5.0, but my guess (Geoff, please correct me if I am wrong) is that PC-NFS does run under DOS 5.0 as long as no multi-tasking is attempted. 3) BWNFSD is being placed on the "testsuite" tape for connectathon and I hope during connectathon we will have any issues resolved from the NFS server vendors. After this I will post the resulting source with as many host operating systems IFDEFed. - Carl Beame President Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd. Beame@McMaster.CA +1 (416) 648-6556
geoff@bodleian.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (01/14/91)
Quoth beame@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Beame) (in <27913395.10545@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>): # # This is in response to several question about BWNFS. #[...] #2) BWNFS runs currectly under DOS 5.0 after running the command: # "setver bwnfs.com 4.0". Geoff didn't comment on the claim that PC-NFS # runs under DOS 5.0, but my guess (Geoff, please correct me if I am wrong) # is that PC-NFS does run under DOS 5.0 as long as no multi-tasking is # attempted. If, hypothetically, we were a beta test site for a new Microsoft product called, for example, DOS 5.0, I believe that I would be prohibited by the beta test agreement from discussing this on the net. (As would anyone else in our - hypothetical - position, I presume.) #3) BWNFSD is being placed on the "testsuite" tape for connectathon and I # hope during connectathon we will have any issues resolved from the # NFS server vendors. After this I will post the resulting source with # as many host operating systems IFDEFed. Excellent! We'll look forward to that. -- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."-- ----------------------------(Bertrand Russell)--------------------------------