U5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (CARDIOLOGY, R.M.H.) (10/01/90)
How easy is it to get a UNIX workstation to be a file server over ethernet to PCs. We have a Silicon Graphics box here and some PCs we'd like to network to it. Anyone done this, or know how it's done. Thanks, Peter Summers
pilger@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Eric Pilger) (10/02/90)
In article <1094@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> U5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (CARDIOLOGY, R.M.H.) writes: >How easy is it to get a UNIX workstation to be a file server over ethernet to >PCs. We have a Silicon Graphics box here and some PCs we'd like to network to >it. PC-NFS from Sun Telemarketing (800-334-7866) and Interdrive from FTP Software (617-246-0900) both provide NFS client software for the PC. Others are available also. I'm not sure how well they will work with a Silicon Graphics box. Sun provides the source for any software that has to go on the Unix end. Check comp.protocols.nfs. I'm sure I saw a recent discussion by individuals using a Silicon Graphics machine with PC-NFS. If the software works (which it doubtless will) using the Unix machine as a server is then quite easy. Set everybody's machines up to mount certain directories as J:, K:, etc. Then place the software you want to share in those directories. Some software is tricky. Other software works without a hitch. Paradox 3.0 seems to be quite happy using PC-NFS as a valid network. Eric Pilger Systems Programmer NASA Infrared Telescope Facility