crosson@cam.nist.gov (Bob Crosson) (10/28/89)
We have a bunch of PCs running Sun's PC-NFS and Lifeline Mail. They all have their remote disks on Sun servers and use POP to get their mail from the same machines. Remote printers are on the servers, too. Many of these users, however, need frequently to log into an IBM 9370 via Telnet. In PC-NFS they can do this and emulate a VT100, but they would be much better off if they could emulate an IBM 3270 type terminal. Is anybody doing this, emulating a 3270 on a PC running PC-NFS, without disabling NFS? Here's what I have tried unsuccessfully. I have queried Sun via e- mail with no response. I have tried running PC-NFS through a packet driver (from Clarkson) with the intent of running NCSA Telnet 2.2TN for the 3270 emulation. I found I could run NCSA as many times as I wanted before starting NFS and everything worked fine. As soon as I started NFS, however, NCSA would no longer run no matter what I did with NFS (unmount everything, use the 'net stop rdr' command). The error I got from NCSA when I tried to start it was 'TYPE_INUSE' from the packet driver. I'm stuck with PC-NFS so using FTP Software's PC/TCP and Interdrive is out of the question. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has solved this problem, or other approaches that might be tried. E-mail can be sent to crosson@cam.nist.gov Thanks in advance. Bob Crosson crosson@cam.nist.gov