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Re: DOS clients over NFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raj Mathur)
Thu Aug 17 16:13:25 1995
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 07:57 GMT+0530
From: raju@gratis.xgroup.ernet.in (Raj Mathur)
To: louis@khotso.sacc.wn.apc.org
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <47A37659D@fs_1.sacc.wn.apc.org> (vikram!louis@khotso.sacc.wn.apc.org)
Reply-To: raju@xgroup.ernet.in
I have experimented a bit with the two shareware NFS clients for
MS-DUH^H^HOS that I found on the Net -- XFS and another client by
TSoft. On the whole found the TSoft software better able to handle a
Linux NFS server (don't ask me the reasons -- I've forgotten them :-)
E-mail nfs@tsoft.net .
Some of the issues that came up were:
PCNFSD. The standard Linux PCNFSD (that comes with Slackware) seems to
be broken in a couple of places. I finally succeeded in getting things
to work by getting the source and compiling it myself. File
linux_pcnfsd2.tgz .
Security. Unfortunately the Linux PCNFSD allows you to mount _any_
volume once you have properly identified yourself. In the environments
where I tested NFS this wasn't an issue, but could become one where
the users are more sophisticated or security is important.
Printing. Some hacking around with the PCNFSD sources (AFAI remember)
and remote printing works like a charm (except for that dumb ^D that
Windoze inserts in the beginning of PS output. Why, oh why?).
Locking. Have not needed it, but the TSoft client seems to document a
number of locking modes. Presumably one or the other will work.
PKTDRV mux'ing. The TSoft client takes over the standard packet driver
interrupt (0x60) and is supposed to include "a built-in single channel
packet multiplexor which will allow you to run up to one additional
TCP/IP stack" but it doesn't seem to work. I had to load the packet
driver at another interrupt and then use PKTMUX to make a packet
driver visible at interrupt 0x60 for the TSoft client. Using multiple
IP clients (FTP PC/TCP, WatTCP TELBIN, Winsock, etc.) was no problem
after that.
Hope this helps. I would be interested in hearing your experiences
with similar setups.
-- Raju
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>>>>> "Louis" == Louis Mandelstam <vikram!louis@khotso.sacc.wn.apc.org> writes:
Louis> Good day. I'm considering replacing the Novell Netware 3.1x
Louis> running on our fileservers at the moment with Linux using
Louis> NFS, and an NFS client for DOS called XFS (using WatTCP)
Louis> I'm also considering Samba instead of NFS.
Louis> I'd love to hear opinions/comments. Has anyone else tried
Louis> such a thing?
