rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) (05/17/91)
Archive-name: internet/nfs/soss/1991-05-16
Archive-directory: spdcc.com:/pub/sos/ [140.186.80.3]
Original-posting-by: rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun)
Original-subject: SOSS version 3.2 -- Bigger Buffers
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
SOSS Version 3.2 - An NFS server for DOS
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SOSS is a file server conforming to SUN Microsystems' NFS protocol
version 2. It will run on IBM-PC compatibles under Microsoft
MS-DOS, using any Ethernet interface supported by Clarkson
University's packet drivers.
Version 3.2 has the following improvements over version 3.1:
- I/O requests can be up to 1024 bytes long; the old limit
was 512.
- Writing to a file now sets the correct modification time.
- A filesystem with 0 bytes free can now be mounted.
- A detailed installation guide has been written.
It can be used in a standalone environment as a file server for
DOS or Unix users running client NFS (e.g., Sun PC-NFS), or it can
be used within a Novell NetWare environment to provide transparent
access to files on Novell servers via NFS.
SOSS relies on source code taken from PC/IP, a public-domain TCP/IP
package developed at CMU and MIT. It also relies on packet drivers
collected and distributed by Clarkson University. These drivers
allow you to set up a dual-protocol stack, allowing simultaneous
access to TCP/IP and NetWare using a single Ethernet interface card.
(They are in a file called drivers.zip on sun.soe.clarkson.edu and
on many of the same systems which carry SOSS.)
SOSS is free software. You may use it within your organization for
any purpose desired. You may redistribute it to other organizations,
provided you do not earn a profit when doing so, that you make source
code available, and that you abide by the terms of the Gnu General
Public License (see the file COPYING).
The following systems currently distribute SOSS via anonymous ftp:
System Directory Contact
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spdcc.com pub/sos rbraun (MA)
sun.soe.clarkson.edu pub/ka9q nelson (NY)
grape.ecs.clarkson.edu pub/msdos/tcpip nelson (NY)
cs.ep.utexas.edu pub/sos pwesley (TX)
garbo.uwasa.fi pc/connect hv (Finland)
kirk.bu.oz.au pub/pc/net/soss bambi (Australia)
nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at pub/src/PCtcp/soss mah (Austria)
The following system currently distributes SOSS via anonymous uucp or
via a BBS download:
System Phone Number Directory Contact
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sir-alan.UUCP 812 333 0450 /u/pubdir/SOSS mikes@iuvax.cs.
indiana.edu
For more information on uucp/BBS sites contact the SYSOP directly.
BITNET access:
Bitnet sites can access a mail-server called BITFTP@PUCC.BITNET;
just send a message HELP to that address to get just that (i.e
help). Example of a connection to sun.soe.clarkson.edu follows:
FTP sun.soe.clarkson.edu UUENCODE
USER anonymous
CD pub/ka9q
DIR
BINARY
GET driverss.zip
QUIT
E-mail retrieval:
Send mail to archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu with a body
containing the single word "help". That works for everybody,
BITNET, UUCP, whatever.
Direct modem retrieval:
You can phone in to grape.ecs.clarkson.edu at (315) 268-6667,
and download pub/msdos/tcpip/soss.zoo.
When in doubt:
Or send $10 for a floppy diskette. Be sure to say what disk
density you want.
Russell Nelson
11 Grant St.
Potsdam, NY 13676
SOSS was written by See-Mong Tan, Harvard Holmes, Craig Eades, and
Richard Braun.
[You may repost this for the benefit of others.]
-- comp.archives file verification
spdcc.com
total 1201
-rw-r--r-- 1 267 16979 May 15 11:11 DISTSITE
-rw-r--r-- 1 267 12096 May 15 11:09 DISTSITE.~2~
-rw-r--r-- 1 267 1712 May 15 11:09 HOWTOGET.IT
-rw-r--r-- 1 267 207778 May 15 10:59 sossexe.zoo
-rw-r--r-- 1 267 10279 May 15 10:59 INSTALL
-rw-r--r-- 1 267 452891 May 15 10:59 soss.zoo
-rw-r--r-- 1 267 1710 May 15 10:32 HOWTOGET.IT.~1~
-rw-r--r-- 1 267 12094 May 15 10:17 DISTSITE.~1~
drwxr-xr-x 2 267 512 May 13 23:56 old
-rw-r--r-- 1 267 10279 May 13 11:53 INSTALL.~1~
-rw-r--r-- 1 267 2493 May 13 10:03 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 267 226966 Mar 31 10:54 myrcs.zoo
-rw-r--r-- 1 267 1127 Mar 28 09:31 README.RCS
-rw-r--r-- 1 267 177806 Feb 7 12:46 ipkit.zoo
-rw-r--r-- 1 267 40192 Feb 5 21:45 zoo.exe
found soss ok
spdcc.com:/pub/sos/