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
rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) (01/25/91)
dixon@pdn.paradyne.com (Tom Dixon) writes: >Wouldn't Stans on NFS Server fit this bill? It is available from >sun.soe.clarkson.edu and is often refered to as SOS. Yes it works. At least a little bit. Enough to impress my boss for at least a day, anyway. Here's my configuration: SCO Unix DOS Novell Server -------- ------- ----------------- 3C503 card Interlan card <whatever> TCP/IP BYU Pkt Driver NFS Netware 386 CMU/MIT PC/IP SOS All three systems are on a single Ethernet coax. I can then type mount -f NFS,soft,rsize=500,wsize=500 dosbox:/y/mydir /usr/me/novell after logging into the Novell server on 'dosbox' and mappying device Y:. I get real-time, albeit somewhat slow, transparent file access on my Unix system to the gigabytes of Novell stuff. And all for the price of a couple of Ethernet cards and a minimally-configured DOS box. In the future, Novell may be able to provide this directly via software on the Novell server. But the Novell NFS is vaporware for the foreseeable months. There are some technical problems with SOS, however. I may switch to PC-NFS if I can't solve them soon. The readdir function invoked within NFS when you type 'ls' hangs indefinitely if the directory contains more than a few dozen files. Is anyone out there using SOS from day to day? How can I solve these problems and potential others I may run across? Is the latest version the 4/90 edition presently on sun.soe.clarkson.edu? -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.