jfb@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Jamie Bradford) (02/07/91)
Does anyone out there know anything about Novell's TCP/IP and NFS packages for Netware? I've been hearing rumours about a TCP package for some time, but have found nothing out there. The NFS I just heard about, but have been able to find no release date. Help, please!! Thanks. Jamie Bradford jfb@naucse.cse.nau.edu
wittmann@erb1.engr.wisc.edu (art wittmann) (02/11/91)
In article <3294@naucse.cse.nau.edu> jfb@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Jamie Bradford) writes: >Does anyone out there know anything about Novell's TCP/IP and NFS >packages for Netware? I've been hearing rumours about a TCP package >for some time, but have found nothing out there. The NFS I just >heard about, but have been able to find no release date. > From what I understand, you can probably expect to hear something this week (from networld Boston). Better have you checkbook ready! Art
karinc@isc.intel.com (Karin Coffee) (02/15/91)
In article <3294@naucse.cse.nau.edu> jfb@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Jamie Bradford) writes: >Does anyone out there know anything about Novell's TCP/IP and NFS >packages for Netware? I've been hearing rumours about a TCP package >for some time, but have found nothing out there. The NFS I just >heard about, but have been able to find no release date. > According to my vendor, Novell announced yesterday (2/13/91) that the MAC.NLM and the NFS.NLM will be released March 10, 1991. However, in order to use the MAC.NLM, we will have to install NetWare 386 (now to be called NetWare 3), version 3.11. The NFS.NLM will be released in two pieces, one before the other. I have been trying to find out for months just what the NFS.NLM is going to buy us. All I could get yesterday was that it will be able to do file transfer and routing. I am interested in printing. We have approximately 60 Sun workstations, 50+ DOS workstations, and 30 Macintoshes. There are printers attached to the Suns, printers attached to the Novell network, and (until I get the Macs bridged in), printers attached to the Localtalk wire. We are interested in giving every machine in the building the ability to print on any printer in the building, seamlessly. I know that once the Macs are bridged in the Macs and PCs will be able to reach all of the Mac and Novell printers, but that doesn't help the engineer who has a Sun and sits on the other side of a partition from an Apple LaserWriter. If anyone has any information or ideas about how to accomplish this, I'd like to hear it. We've looked at TOPS, but it doesn't give the seamlessness that we are looking for. That, and having to install it on every blessed workstation! Thanks! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Karin Coffee Intel Supercomputer Systems Division Network/System Administration 15201 NW Greenbrier Parkway The LAN Lords Beaverton, OR 97201 karinc@isc.intel.com (503) 629-7693 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) (02/17/91)
karinc@isc.intel.com (Karin Coffee) writes: >The NFS.NLM will be released in two pieces, one before the other. I have >been trying to find out for months just what the NFS.NLM is going to buy >us. All I could get yesterday was that it will be able to do file >transfer and routing. I am interested in printing. >If anyone has any information or ideas about how to accomplish this, I'd >like to hear it. I'm interested in doing the same thing, and I'm willing to make my solution available publicly. I've brought up a much more robust version of SOS (an NFS server for DOS which to which I've added Novell hooks), which provides seamless access to Novell files. It would be relatively easy to add LPD support. My offer is this: send me a detailed document describing all of the TCP/IP packets required of the standard LPD network printer daemon interface, and I'll add LPD support to SOS. Then you can have SOS source and/or binaries, which will allow you to set up a system on your TCP/IP network to which you could attach printer queues using standard Unix TCP/IP software. Anyone who is interested in my beta DOS NFS software (which can be used either in conjunction with Novell or just to create an inexpensive file server for a PC-NFS environment), please send e-mail to rbraun@spdcc.com. By the way, I'm doing all this work so I don't have to *use* a DOS system day-to-day; I want access to DOS resources from a Unix system. I don't want to acquire the reputation here of being a DOS expert... At the risk of asking the wrong newsgroup, I'm also interested in finding out what it takes to convert a program like SOS into a TSR, allowing it to be run on a non-dedicated PC or perhaps even a Novell file server. -rich rbraun@spdcc.com
martino@logitek.co.uk (Martin O'Nions) (02/24/91)
karinc@isc.intel.com (Karin Coffee) writes: >The NFS.NLM will be released in two pieces, one before the other. I have >been trying to find out for months just what the NFS.NLM is going to buy >us. All I could get yesterday was that it will be able to do file >transfer and routing. I am interested in printing. The joys of NFS....... Files Only from the original spec. Like other people, we are starting to look at CHARON, so if people post back with reports on this, we'll be interested. For those looking for a description of the LPR/LPD suite, there is now an RFC available detailing the protocol used (RFC1179 I think). It's relatively recent (Aug '90), so many sites don't have it at the moment. Anybody who archives comp.doc should have it, or if you can't find it anywhere else, mail me and I'll try and sneak it past our increasingly cost-concious postmaster............ Martin -- DISCLAIMER: All My Own Work (Unless stated otherwise) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin O'Nions Logitek Group Support martino@logitek.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Auntie did you feel no pain / Falling from that willow tree? Could you do it, please again / 'Cos my friend here didn't see. (Harry Graham - Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes)