[comp.protocols.nfs] pub. domain NFS/RPC for Unix, MSDOS?

usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (11/28/89)

Some days ago I got the following email from
India, with a request for certain public domain 
networking software:

>    Sun's RPC and NFS Sources from public domain. We are
>    buying a 386-based Micro running Unix System V Rel.3.2
>    from Interactive Systems Corpn. It supports NFS based on
>    TCP/IP. I heard this NFS is available for PCs running
>    DOS also. And further, it seems to be 
>    machine hardware and transport software independent.
>    So we plan to have it working in an OSI Environment.
>    
>    Could you spare some time in loading this vital piece
>    of software ( both Unix and DOS versions) please ?

I don't know much about networking software, so
please excuse my ignorance.  What exactly does this
person want, and from where can I ftp the corresponding
files?  Can I get source for both Unix and DOS versions?

I would be VERY grateful for any information.  Please
email me at:   raja@frith.egr.msu.edu     OR
               raja%frith.egr.msu.edu@uunet.uu.net

Thanks in advance,


Narayan Sriranga Raja.

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sxn%ingersoll@Sun.COM (Stephen X. Nahm) (12/01/89)

raja@frith.egr.msu.edu (Usenet file owner) writes:

>Some days ago I got the following email from
>India, with a request for certain public domain 
>networking software:

>>    Sun's RPC and NFS Sources from public domain.

RPCSRC 4.0 is the freely licensed implementation of Sun's RPC
library for BSD unix.  No freely licensed DOS implementation of the
RPC library exists, though PC-NFS Toolkit *is* available and has
a binary RPC library.

As for NFS, there are a few PD implementation, though their
quality is not assured.  One for DOS is called "sos", and
it is located on the same archive machine as RPCSRC.  Sun does
not make any NFS implementation available in the public domain, though
you can buy a license.

Here's the instructions for getting RPCSRC:

  Sun's freely licensed RPC/XDR implementation, RPCSRC 4.0, is now
  available via anonymous ftp from bcm.tmc.edu and from the
  archive-server@bcm.tmc.edu.

  If you use the archive server, send mail to archive-server@bcm.tmc.edu
  with a Subject of "send nfs index" to see all the names of the files.
  Sending a message with the Subject "help" will return to you more
  information about the archive server itself.

  To use anonymous FTP, use the ftp program to connect to bcm.tmc.edu.
  When prompted for a user name, enter "anonymous".  When prompted for
  a password, enter your user ID (such as "joeuser@sun.com").  Then
  change directories (cd) to the "nfs" directory, where you will find
  the RPCSRC files.

  There are 17 shar files in the main library and 4 shar files for
  secure rpc.

Steve Nahm                              sxn@sun.COM or sun!sxn