[comp.windows.ms] Windows on an NFS drive

ccc_jc@waikato.ac.nz (08/30/90)

Has Anyone succeeded in running Windows3 from a pc-nfs networked drive...
Windows 2xx worked fine but 3 seems to come up with an empty program manager,
and any attempt to run an application comes back with an error 'Too many files
 open'.
      Any Ideas...

j creek

prk@planet.bt.co.uk (Peter Knight) (08/30/90)

ccc_jc@waikato.ac.nz writes:


>Has Anyone succeeded in running Windows3 from a pc-nfs networked drive...
>Windows 2xx worked fine but 3 seems to come up with an empty program manager,
>and any attempt to run an application comes back with an error 'Too many files
> open'.
>      Any Ideas...

>j creek

Can't say I have tried this, but something worth bearing in mind is the 
number of open files PC-NFS supports: only 8 by default.  To change this
you need to add a /f20 (for 20 files) switch on the PCNFS.SYS load in the
CONFIG.SYS file:

DEVICE=c:\nfs\PCNFS.SYS /f20

Windows 3 also supports a swapper disk, so this needs to be configured
to use a local HD, perhaps.

Peter Knight
BT Research

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