mario@theglove.Canada.Sun.COM (Mario Dorion - Sun Montreal) (03/12/91)
Hello Xenix folks.
A local customer, here in Montreal, has a network of PC's, some of them
running XENIX, most running DOS.
They're using PC-NFS to communication between the DOS machines and the
XENIX server. PC-NFS comes with a program called rpc.pcnfsd that has to
be compiled and installed on the UNIX host. This program will, among
other goodies, enable the DOS users to remotely print onto the server's
printers.
The rpc.pcnfsd program is supplied in source format and compiles nicely
on a Sun Workstation or on a 'pure' BSD host. The task of making it run
on different architectures is sort of left to the user.
My customer needs help in porting the rpc.pcnfsd to the XENIX
environment.
XENIX being one of the best selling UNIX environment and PC-NFS being
one of the best selling communication program, I'm sure someone,
somewhere, has already ported the pcnfsd program to XENIX.
Would anyone have any tips?
You can reply to me by email. I will also monitor this newsgroup for a
while.
Many, many thanks for your help.
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mario@theglove.Canada.Sun.COM (Mario Dorion - Sun Montreal) writes: >Hello Xenix folks. > >A local customer, here in Montreal, has a network of PC's, some of them >running XENIX, most running DOS. > >They're using PC-NFS to communication between the DOS machines and the >XENIX server. PC-NFS comes with a program called rpc.pcnfsd that has to >be compiled and installed on the UNIX host. This program will, among >other goodies, enable the DOS users to remotely print onto the server's >printers. > >The rpc.pcnfsd program is supplied in source format and compiles nicely >on a Sun Workstation or on a 'pure' BSD host. The task of making it run >on different architectures is sort of left to the user. > >My customer needs help in porting the rpc.pcnfsd to the XENIX >environment. > >XENIX being one of the best selling UNIX environment and PC-NFS being >one of the best selling communication program, I'm sure someone, >somewhere, has already ported the pcnfsd program to XENIX. > >Would anyone have any tips? From a practical standpoint, it can't be done. 1. There are no streams under Xenix, it is all spoofed by the streams library. 2. There is no rpc support for Xenix. 3. The TCP/IP is about as solid as the Iraqi military. There is supposedly an NFS product for Xenix called Fusion from Network Research, but I am only aware of its existance, nothing more. Your customers best bet would be to chuck Xenix for one of the System V/386 Release 3.2 or 4.0 products (i.e. ESIX, ISC, Dell, MicroPort, UHC, or SCO) that already support NFS. If someone can and has proven me wrong, please speak up. I was looking for such a product a long time ago. But to my understand, Xenix does not have the necessary kernel support to handle rpc.pcnfsd even with the streams and TCP/IP packages added. // JCA /* **--------------------------------------------------------------------------* ** Flames : /dev/null | What to buy? ** ARPANET : crash!pnet01!jca@nosc.mil | EISA or MCA? ** INTERNET: jca@pnet01.cts.com | When will the bus wars end? ** UUCP : {nosc ucsd hplabs!hp-sdd}!crash!pnet01!jca **--------------------------------------------------------------------------* */
tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) (03/16/91)
jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes: > If someone can and has proven me wrong, please speak up. I was looking for > such a product a long time ago. But to my understand, Xenix does not > have the necessary kernel support to handle rpc.pcnfsd even with the streams > and TCP/IP packages added. > > // JCA Like the old guy said, "Ya can't get there from here." He obviously was refering to Xenix and NFS ;-) I hadn't hear of the FUSION thing tho' -- I'll watcht out for it. Thanks. Travis -- Travis Bissett NSTAR conferencing site 219-289-0287 internet: tbissett@nstar.rn.com 1300 newsgroups - 8 inbound lines uucp: ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!tbissett 99 file areas - 4300 megabytes --- backbone news & mail feeds available - contact larry@nstar.rn.com ---