changmk@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Mun Kein Chang) (04/25/91)
Can someone tell me what Netware/NFS and Netware/VMS does? I'm trying to share a VMS file system to Novell clients and I'm hoping that Netware/VMS does the trick. But I know little of it. -- Mun-Kein.
jrd@cc.usu.edu (04/28/91)
In article <1880003@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com>, changmk@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Mun Kein Chang) writes: > Can someone tell me what Netware/NFS and Netware/VMS does? > I'm trying to share a VMS file system to Novell clients and > I'm hoping that Netware/VMS does the trick. But I know little > of it. > > -- Mun-Kein. ------------- NetWare/VMS is, as the name suggests, a NetWare server running on VMS VAXen. My copy emulates a NW v2.12 server and looks the same to clients. NFS support is entirely different and is component which can be added to NW 386 v3.11 systems; it acts as a NFS server (dispenser of files). I think you will find that NW/VMS does file sharing the way you might wish: text files are visible and usable from both NW and VMS sides, binaries are not because of RMS file system details, user's VMS directories can be made visible as NetWare "volumes". Also NW/VMS provides the TES package to let terminal emulators on the PC, such as MS-DOS Kermit, log into the VMS front end while using NetWare IPX packets on the Ethernet; TES is rather good. Joe D.