[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] Unix/Novell interface

rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) (01/19/91)

"Give me DOS software which makes my Novell server appear to be a TCP/IP
NFS server".

I've come up with an idea which should theoretically work if there's a
DOS NFS which can run on top of a TCP/IP running on top of IPX:  I take
a DOS system, throw Novell's client software on it, have it log in to
a Netware server and mount its disks as X:, Y:, Z:, start up TCP/IP,
and start up the NFS server.  Then I should be able to walk over to my
Unix system and NFS mount my Novell files.  The only inconvenience would
be that DOS and Unix treat newlines in text files differently.  And because
I'd have to run this on a separate DOS box from the Novell server, it
wouldn't be as fast as when Novell provides its own NFS server.

Can anyone point me to an NFS server product running on DOS?  Does such
a thing exist?  Has anyone else tried to do this?

For background, I'm working at a company with several dozen DOS machines
linked via Ethernet to a series of Novell servers.  About 6-10 Unix
machines are in the process of being installed; we have not yet brought
up TCP/IP but are about to.  Unix users need access to the plethora of
facilities provided by the Novell system already in place.  (This includes
printers, e-mail, tape drives, modems, etc.)

-rich

DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) (01/26/91)

>"Give me DOS software which makes my Novell server appear to be a TCP/IP
>NFS server".

	I'd like to find out if such a beast exists, on either DOS or 
UNIX, that allows a unix system to mount a novell disk so that  a unix
user can access the files on that disk as if it where a unix disk. All the
discussion I have seen here seems to suggest that you can go the other
way (novel user access a unix file system) but not from a UNIX's perspective.