bauer@usfvax1.UUCP (Jeff Bauer) (04/08/86)
I am having trouble getting answers to what would appear to be a simple question -- how can I Ethernet two VAXes that are running UNIX (bsd 4.2) and VMS and allow the peripheral devices to be shared among them? Specifically, we have three VAX 11/750s, two of which run bsd 4.2 and one of which runs VMS. Currently, they are all located fairly far apart and until completition of a new Engineering building this summer, any sort of networking (other than the "poor man's net" offered by 9600 baud tty lines!) is not feasible. The reconfiguration of the VAXes in the new building will place them close enough to run Ethernet coax between them. I want to be able to use tape drives and disk drives hung off of the UNIBUS of any of the VAXes from any other of the VAXes; specifically, a tape drive from the VMS machine on one of the UNIX machines that does not have a tape drive on its UNIBUS. The hardware needed for networking would be less than a new tape drive (2 DEC DELNAs, coax, transceiver taps) and the added flexibility of the net seems worth the effort to find a way to share (at least) the VMS tape drive on the UNIX machine. Is there another vendor's solution that runs on Ethernet to permit us to do this? Please email responses; thanks ahead of time! Jeff Bauer ..akgua!usfvax2!usfvax1!bauer College of Engineering University of South Florida (813) 974-3790 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEC & VAX are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corp. UNIX, a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories