jdm@mbitow.UUCP (Jay D. Mumper) (03/02/91)
Does anyone know of NFS being available for the Tower series (specifically a Tower 32/650 with UNIX 3.00.01 and WIN-TCP)? I've heard some not-to-good remarks about Wollongong's NFS (like it ignores the kernel file system routines and interacts directly with the file system...), but that doesn't mean it won't work with "normal" hardware. Anyway, does it even exist for the Tower anyway? Okay, if not, how can I get NFS on the Tower? (Sea Change, are you listening?) My reasons are simply that I'd like to have some other non-NCR UNIX machines be able to access the Tower drive in an NFS-like manner (remote mount, etc.) and perhaps do the reverse back to the tower with their disks as well. And yes I know RFS is there, but I'd prefer NFS, just because I can use PCNFS on our PCs too.... Now what about SLIP? Since WIN-TCP is so well documented :( , I can't imagine how I overlooked it if it's there... Seriously, though, I'd like to be able to use it if it exists on this thing. ANY pointers on this one would be appreciated. ( NCR has already been flamed vigorously for the lack of documentation for WIN-TCP, but hey, can't I add a little gasoline too! A good set of manuals would make this entire posting an RTFM error... ) -------------------------------- mbitow!jdm Jay D. Mumper Mold Base Industries, Inc. Voice: (717) 564-7960
adk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Andrew D Kailhofer) (03/02/91)
I'm not sure about the 650, but I do have NFS on my 700. It is from TWG. It performs relatively well, but I have had some problems with the /etc/exports file. I haven't been able to restrict an export to anything other than a single host (i.e. I haven't been able to restrict access to my config files to the two TowerViews on my net). It's either just one host, or global access... Anyone else notice this? Andy Kailhofer Ameritech Services, Inc. 414/678-7793 a907932@gus.wi.ameritech.com
TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu (Lou Anschuetz) (03/03/91)
This isn't necessarily a direct followup, but our poster program has temporarily vanished, and this is sort of related. First, the related stuff - I have heard that WIN-TCP has an NFS, but that if you look up SLOW in the dictionary you would find a TWG NFS command as the definition (over 2 minutes was the low estimate). In light of the not to speedy performance of WIN-TCP in general, I have not pursued this so cannot verify that this is all true (though it has that ring....) Second, I am now sending everyone through a terminal server to my tower since using HPSIO and modems is not real functional. This mostly works REAL well, except that at least once a day, WIN-TCP decideds not to do anything anymore and quietly quits, thereby allowing no more users to log in. I am going to call this one in, but I have NO error messages (WIN-TCP never writes to its syslog file, and never reports errors - t'is like a c program, it dies with no report of its death...). There may well be a certain parameter I need to tune, but have no idea what. I do know that there are usually about 14 users on board when it quits, though it has run for 4 hours with this many users pounding away, so it is not consistent. Any help would be appreciated. BTW, the terminal server is fine during this time, but of course you can't do much with it since it gets its software from the tower. I never need to reload or boot it when this happens. HELP! (Jeff at CODAR, look for another strange call on Monday :-) As always, thanks in advance!
ian@ukpoit.co.uk (Ian Spare) (03/06/91)
In article <91061.205038TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu> TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu (Lou Anschuetz) writes: >Second, I am now sending everyone through a terminal server to my >tower since using HPSIO and modems is not real functional. This >mostly works REAL well, except that at least once a day, WIN-TCP >decideds not to do anything anymore and quietly quits, thereby >allowing no more users to log in. I am going to call this one in, >but I have NO error messages (WIN-TCP never writes to its syslog >file, and never reports errors - t'is like a c program, it dies >with no report of its death...). There may well be a certain parameter >I need to tune, but have no idea what. I do know that there are >usually about 14 users on board when it quits, though it has run >for 4 hours with this many users pounding away, so it is not >consistent. Any help would be appreciated. BTW, the terminal >server is fine during this time, but of course you can't do much >with it since it gets its software from the tower. I never need >to reload or boot it when this happens. HELP! (Jeff at CODAR, look >for another strange call on Monday :-) > We use terminal servers instead of HPSIO/621 since it gives better functionality we even use them to allow telnet into no-netowrk towers/devices. The 5.3 towers ( esp. 5.3.2 / 1.01.01 etc ) are especially talented at silent deaths !! We find this on NFS , TCP ( this also relates to speed), printers and modems !! Our problem ,and your's 'sounds' the same, is stream tuning , check strstat ( from shell or crash ) and tune accordingly. You may also not be aware that all tty tallies etc are now turned of, this really doesn't apply in this case but is well worth knowing. If you are running out a stream blocks you will get a silent death as you describe. We have some 'specs' etc in to deal with the problem of not being notified. Hope this helps ( somebody :-) ) Ian -- Ian Spare , iT , Barker Lane , CHESTERFIELD , DERBYS , S40 1DY , GREAT BRITAIN E-mail : ian@ukpoit.uucp - VOICE : +44 246 214296 - FAX : +44 246 214353