hacke@MDC.COM (03/31/89)
Does anyone know of an NFS client for a Macintosh runnung Mac-OS? Does I know about the Gator Box. I am looking for NFS that could be run on a Mac with an Ethernet card in it. Keith Hacke hacke@mdc.com
geertj@nlgvax.UUCP (Geert Jan de Groot) (04/01/89)
In article <8903302307.AA18426@bcm.tmc.edu> hacke@MDC.COM writes: >Does anyone know of an NFS client for a Macintosh runnung Mac-OS? Does [I miss a line here?] >I know about the Gator Box. I am looking for NFS that could be run >on a Mac with an Ethernet card in it. I am also interested in NFS for the MAC. If you find anything, let me know! Currently, I networked a mac using TOPS by SUN, using a ethernetcard by Apple. This approach will (sort of) allow similar things, that is, using files from a SUN filesystem. It does have some problems: - It does not allow sharing of executables. I think this is a MacOSism: for instance, Hypercard apperently needs write permission (and ownership of the user for the executable). Therefore, it is impossible to build a central place for executables, and restrict write access to 'disencourage' viruses. - Filenaming is a headache. TOPS allows spaces in a user's filename, and builds a weird construction for the resource fork. - TOPS does not allow redirecting printeroutput to a laserwriter connected to a SUN network. It is impossible to spool to a SUN printer from a MAC. - Using an ethernet card switches off the appletalk connection. Which makes an appletalk printer unreachable. This results in making local copies of print output, switching the MAC to appletalk, reboot (it crashes otherwise - I don't know why), printing, and switching back. A (hard-) diskless client is about unusable. - First-time installation does not work for the SUN software. Workaround: install it, and re-install.... A Fastpath box is said to be a solution. It has an appletalk connection on one end, and ethernet on the other. It is about as expensive as a MAC itself :-(. Moreover, we have multiple MACs spread around in the lab, and only ethernet, no appletalk wiring, we should need a fastpath for every MAC, kinda expensive. Hey geoff, how about MAC-NFS :-) ? Geert Jan --8<--nip-nip--------------------------------------------------------------- Geert Jan de Groot, Email: geertj@nlgvax.pcg.philips.nl Philips Research Laboratories, ..!mcvax!nlgvax!geertj Project Centre Geldrop, Ham: PE1HZG Building XP, Room 4, Willem Alexanderlaan 7B, "MS-DOS is just a bootstrap" - me 5664 AN Geldrop, The Netherlands. phone: +31 40 892204 [Standard disclaimers apply]
tim@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Timothy Lange) (11/10/90)
I know about InterCon's product, NFS/Share, are there any other makers of NFS type network support for Macs?
kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (11/13/90)
In article <16367@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, tim@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Timothy Lange) writes: > I know about InterCon's product, NFS/Share, are there any other makers > of NFS type network support for Macs? Yes besides ours there are the following. Wollongong's MacPathWay NFS Client Cayman's GatorShare (which converts from NFS to AppleShare, requires a server) Hope that helps. -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.
lefty@twg.com (David N. Schlesinger) (11/15/90)
In article <16367@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> tim@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Timothy Lange) writes: > I know about InterCon's product, NFS/Share, are there any other makers > of NFS type network support for Macs? Yes, we have a product which is currently shipping: Pathway Client/NFS. You can call the number below to get more information about it. Pathway Client/NFS implements an NFS client directly on the Macintosh, allowing access to mount points on remote hosts as though they were Macintosh volumes. This includes full support of the Macintosh Finder, as well as Desktop file support (icons, comments, etc.) The product is built on top of Apple's MacTCP stack. The product is a Control Panel device; it is installed on the Mac simply by dragging it to the System Folder. Simultaneous access to multiple hosts/mount points is supported. It will work with most Mac Ethernet cards, as well as most LocalTalk/Ethernet gateways. Sun's LOCKD is supported, and authentication is done via PCNFSD. Hope this helps. -- David N. Schlesinger (lefty@twg.com) Sr. Software Engineer The Wollongong Group 415/962-7100
kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (11/16/90)
In article <8282@gollum.twg.com>, lefty@twg.com (David N. Schlesinger) writes: > The product is a Control Panel device; it is installed on the Mac simply by > dragging it to the System Folder. > Our NFS works by also droping it into the System Folder, but ours is a Chooser device. I am sure that we could have many philosophical discussions as to why we did it this way and Wollongong did it the other way, our view being that the Chooser is where things of this nature belong (alla, AppleShare). > Simultaneous access to multiple hosts/mount points is supported. It will work > with most Mac Ethernet cards, as well as most LocalTalk/Ethernet gateways. > Sun's LOCKD is supported, and authentication is done via PCNFSD. Quick question for you Dave, how do you support LOCKD? In the manual that we have for your product it doesn't say that you do. Just curious, and if you do support LOCKD then you should state so in the manual. In fact on page 1-5 it says "Sun's LOCKD is not supported.", it states above that you support this functinality through NFSAD. I just wanted to know if the manual is wrong here. Also is NFSAD PD software, or something the Wollongong wrote? Thanks! -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.
beame@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Beame) (11/16/90)
In article <27430851.6BEB@intercon.com> kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) writes: >> with most Mac Ethernet cards, as well as most LocalTalk/Ethernet gateways. >> Sun's LOCKD is supported, and authentication is done via PCNFSD. > >Quick question for you Dave, how do you support LOCKD? In the manual that >we have for your product it doesn't say that you do. Just curious, and if >you do support LOCKD then you should state so in the manual. In fact on >page 1-5 it says "Sun's LOCKD is not supported.", it states above that you >support this functinality through NFSAD. I just wanted to know if the manual >is wrong here. > >Also is NFSAD PD software, or something the Wollongong wrote? Thanks! >-- >Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation >703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products >703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh. I beleive (I will be corrected if wrong) that NFSAD is BWNFSD with one small modification. BWNFSD is a authentication/print/lock daemon created for BWNFS for DOS (Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd.) - Carl Beame Beame@McMaster.CA P.S: We support PCNFSD and rpc.lockd also.