mshiels@tmsoft.uucp (Michael A. Shiels) (01/10/91)
I am hoping someone @microsoft will see and respond to this but amybe someone else knows things about this. a) we are an OS/2 Lan Manager reseller/whatever b) we currently use our own home brew LAN which has a very nice feature. it allows what we call hierarchical networks. Ie lan A has a "server" and a workstation on lan A which just happens to be the "server" for lan B. So the lan B server actually does the equivalent of net use's from the lan A server and then provides them as drives to users on the lan B network. BIG PROBLEM. This doesn't work under Lan Manager. So you also can't do things like have your server bring in a bunch of DECnet or NFS drives and share them with all your users. Any luck in this changing?
backman@vaxeline.COM (Larry Backman) (01/11/91)
In article <1991Jan10.012218.19859@tmsoft.uucp> mshiels@tmsoft.UUCP (Michael A. Shiels) writes: > >I am hoping someone @microsoft will see and respond to this but amybe >someone else knows things about this. > > Probably not... >b) we currently use our own home brew LAN which has a very nice feature. > it allows what we call hierarchical networks. Ie lan A has a "server" > and a workstation on lan A which just happens to be the "server" for > lan B. So the lan B server actually does the equivalent of net use's > from the lan A server and then provides them as drives to users on the > lan B network. > >BIG PROBLEM. This doesn't work under Lan Manager. So you also can't do things >like have your server bring in a bunch of DECnet or NFS drives and share >them with all your users. I have experienced the same problem with my NFS IFS. I can run the NFS IFS on the same machine as a LAN Manager server and merrily copy files from NFS drives to LANMAN remote & local drives. However, when I do the following.... mount z: //sun/usr/xx/yy/z #mount an nfs drive net share sun=z:\ I get the <command completed successfully> message. Another LANMAN client than is able to net use g: \\gatewaymachine\sun and gets the same <command completed successfully> message from LANMAN. However any access of <g:> fails with a <drive not found> msg. I brought this issue up with Microsoft & was told that LANMAN distinctly protected against allowing access to remote drives to avoid a circular share/use loop. Oh well; it could have been a great product.... Larry Backman backman@ftp.com