mark@epsoft.UUCP (Mark Chamberlain) (03/06/91)
Has anyone successfully married a PC to a NeXT? We have a whole bunch of PC's, and we're about to take delivery of a whole bunch of NeXTStations. It would be great if we could network the whole lot together. I presume I need a PC TCP/IP and NFS implementations and all will work.. a) I've heard of various PD packet-drivers etc around, are these suitable? b) Has anyone successfully put a NeXT onto say Netware running TCP/IP or on Lan Manager using one of the 3Com DPA stacks? All insights/ideas gratefully received.. Mark -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Chamberlain, Epsilon Software Limited, 38 Chandos Way, Golders Green London, England, +44 81 458 0434, Fax: +44 81 455 7725, mark@epsoft.uucp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (03/06/91)
If you're willing to live without NFS, there are some good freeware TCP/IP implementations available. Our mainstay is Clarkson University's package (we need TN3270, sorry), although the current NCSA beta is arguably better suited. Both will run with packet drivers or FTP Software's NDIS-to-packet driver interface. There are several commercial NFS client implementations available (Sun PC-NFS, FTP Software Interdrive, Beame & Whiteside's BW-NFS come to mind). I'm seriously unimpressed with PC-NFS, and suggest looking into competitive products. Anyway, treat the NeXT as a generic UNIX box; your problem is on the PC side. (PCs will always be crippled as long as people continue to run MSDOS on them... you won't find "solutions," only compromises.) The more I learn about NetWare, the less I like it. -=EPS=-
wrb@milton.u.washington.edu (William Barker) (03/07/91)
In article <27d42480@epsoft.UUCP> mark@epsoft.UUCP (Mark Chamberlain) writes: >Has anyone successfully married a PC to a NeXT? We have a whole bunch of >PC's, and we're about to take delivery of a whole bunch of NeXTStations. >It would be great if we could network the whole lot together. I presume >I need a PC TCP/IP and NFS implementations and all will work.. > >a) I've heard of various PD packet-drivers etc around, are these >suitable? > >b) Has anyone successfully put a NeXT onto say Netware running TCP/IP or >on Lan Manager using one of the 3Com DPA stacks? > >All insights/ideas gratefully received.. > >Mark I'm running "El Sol" brand PC-NFS on some clone PCs, and mounting a variety of NeXT file systems, both hard and optical disks types, on the PCs without much trouble. I'm also in the process of upgrading my PC-based file server to a Novell 3.x system, and will be linking these PCs to my NeXT systems via the Novell LAN Workplace for DOS (Telnet and FTP) and the Beam and Whitesides NFS DOS client programs. (Anybody want to buy some used NFS software??) A Novell server-based NFS package is also in the works, but it looks expensive. Too bad Novell didn't choose to include it as part of 3.x like they did with IP tunneling. For reference, the Public Domain NCSA Telnet package with the packet driver support works well if all you want is Telnet and FTP. When the NeXT-based Novell/AFP support comes out (2.1??--any rumors out there??), I intend to take a real close look at it. If it does what it is rumored to do, it would lend even more support to the case for NeXT. In the mean time, I think the PCs and the NeXTs will get along fine. Of course, now I've got to make it all work. Bill Barker Biological Structure U of Washington