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SEMI-COMMERCIAL: Networker Client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Jan 26 20:58:22 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 22:53:39 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: mjacob@feral.com (Matthew Jacob)
Subject: SEMI-COMMERCIAL: Networker Client
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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There is a commercial network client/server based product called
Networker (from Legato) systems.
The server portion exists on several different server platforms
(managing indexes and backup media and jukeboxes): SunOS, Solaris,
Solaris/86, Solaris/PPC, AIX, SCO, HPUX, Netware, plus several others.
The client portion exists on many more platforms: Dos, Windows,
Windows NT, OS/2, about 15-20 different Unix flavors.
I have produced a linux client version, which I can make the binaries
only (sorry) available for free.
Here's the scoop/limitations:
+ You'll have to have a Networker server somewhere in your
net that you can add more clients to.
+ This Linux version does *not* have the usual graphical
interfaces (the Unix Networker client s/w is Motif based,
and I haven't purchased Mooteef or re-ported to OW or
Athena...). It *does* have all the usual client command
line interfaces, including the ability to have automatic
save groups invoked by the remote server.
+ I and a few other people have been using this product lightly
for some months, but no real formal testing has been done.
Use at your own risk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ Support: I am an employee of Legato Systems, but this particular
release of software is *not* directly approved by Legato Systems.
Do *not* call them up with questions about this client support-
Tech Support swore they would <fill in your favporite dire threat
here> if I persisted in sharing this outside the company. I have
the tacit approval of some individuals in the company that this
work can be a shared, unsupported, binary only release.
Please send any mail questions, flames, bug reports, to either
me (mjacob@feral.com, or mjacob@legato.com), or to
linux@legato.com
+ Please purchase Legato server licences and say it's to support
the linux and/or a freebsd client port- that will legitimize
any time I spend on this.
Where to get the binaries:
feral.com anonymous ftp:pub/linux/networker.tar.gz
legato.com anonymous ftp:pub/Unsupported/Linux_Client
(this seems to come and go at times- I don't control that machine)
I thought long and hard about whether to release a binary only
product, when I would much prefer to release a very reduced feature
source product. However, this was the best compromise I could reach
with a number of folks about how to get more client support out there.
I essentially did this port so I could back up *my* linux machines
to an external server, and am glad to share this feature with folks
who can use it as well.
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