lyle@sjuvax.UUCP (Wayne J. Lyle) (06/02/89)
I am wondering is anyone has successfully installed PC-NFS version 3.0 on a machine running PC-DOS 4.0? Everything seems to go ok until I try to use one of the network resources (mounted drives and printers) at which point I get a message that says something like "DOS INT 24" and then the infamous "Abort, Retry or Fail" message comes up. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Wayne Lyle -- ===================================================================== Wayne J. Lyle St. Joseph's University Academic Computing Philadelphia, Pa 19131 lyle@sjuvax.UUCP, lyle@sju.edu.CSNET
craig@com2serv.C2S.MN.ORG (Craig S. Wilson) (06/03/89)
In article <2096@sjuvax.UUCP> lyle@sjuvax.UUCP (Wayne J. Lyle) writes: > > I am wondering is anyone has successfully installed PC-NFS >version 3.0 on a machine running PC-DOS 4.0? Everything seems to go >ok until I try to use one of the network resources (mounted drives and >printers) at which point I get a message that says something like "DOS >INT 24" and then the infamous "Abort, Retry or Fail" message comes up. >Any ideas? > I am running PC-NFS 3.0 on DOS 4.0 and am looking for the time to revert back to DOS 3.3. Unfortunately, DOS 4.0 appears to have some differences from previous levels in the disk device area. Whenever I do a DOS 'dir' on a mounted directory, I get an "Invalid DOS Function" message at the end of the output. I also cannot use DOS 'copy' or 'xcopy' commands successfully. If I run a program which opens and reads a file off of a mounted directory, everything seems to work okay. I went to DOS 4.0 because of the DOS ability to have a partition greater than 32MB, but I am sorry that I did. On another note, we currently have a 3/260-HM, 3/280Server, 3/60Server, 3/50, 2-UNISYS 5000/50's, and a Convergent S/80 along with about 20-25 PC' using PC-NFS 3.0 in our network. There is a QUME scripten laser printer hung off of the 3/260. I have no problem getting my stuff to print from Lotus Manuscript to the QUME looking like an Apple-style printer. I have even sent graph output from Borland's Quattro spreadsheet to the printer. The PC's also can access all of the other servers okay. (I don't have NFS on the 5000/50's, tho) We do have the spooler check each print file for a Postscript file format, however. If it doesn't see Postscript looking commands, it will run the file through a formatter. This is to prevent PC's from sending raw text files to the Postscript printer. My questions about PC-NFS: 1) Does anyone know of a driver for the Excelan 205T ethernet card? 2) What is the possibility of getting a version of the PC-NFS Programmer's toolkit compatible with Turbo C? That's my two-cents worth. /craig Craig S. Wilson | The user is the |{amdahl|hpda}!bungia!com50!craig Com Squared Systems, Inc. | computer is the |craig@c2s.mn.org 2520 Pilot Knob Road | network is the |(612) 452-9522 voice Mendota Heights MN 55120| connector is... |(612) 452-3607 fax
geoff@hinode.east.sun.com (Geoff Arnold @ Sun ECD - R.H. coast near the top) (06/04/89)
In article <2096@sjuvax.UUCP> lyle@sjuvax.UUCP (Wayne J. Lyle) writes: > > I am wondering is anyone has successfully installed PC-NFS >version 3.0 on a machine running PC-DOS 4.0? DOS 4.0 introduced a couple of new system calls which are used by standard utilities such as COPY, XCOPY, COMMAND.COM, etc. Obviously the redirector in PC-NFS had to be modified to grok these calls. The problem is resolved in PC-NFS 3.0.1: see the forthcoming comp.newprod posting for details. Geoff Arnold, Internet: garnold@sun.com Manager, PC-NFS Engineering UUCP: ....!sun!garnold PCDS Group, Sun Microsystems Inc. "A disclaimer? Sure, at that price you can have half a dozen of 'em."