[259] in Resnet-Forum
Re: File access across campus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael L. Barrow)
Thu Apr 28 23:16:13 1994
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 94 22:56:27 EDT
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
From: mlbarrow@MIT.EDU (Michael L. Barrow)
>From: joel.p.cooper.1@nd.edu (Joel P. Cooper)
>
>We are currently experimenting with U. Michigan's AFP-to-AFS translator to
>provide Macintosh access to AFSspace and with PC-NFS and Transarc's
>NFS-to-AFS translator to provide DOS/Windows access to AFSspace. Both
>translators run on UNIX boxes and provide native file protocol access to
>Mac and PC clients. While we are not ready to call either of them
>production-level services, they are both in place and being load tested.
>Testers like the concept of seeing their AFS home directory represented as
>a file icon or seeing their stuff at the DOS prompt.
How many DOS boxes do you have using the NFSxAFS translator? We used it
here at MIT and wouldn't exactly call it a "service" -- so to speak. It
will eat files if you try to write, etc. It's my understading that
Transarc warns about the use of this beast.
-- mlb
-- Michael L. Barrow
Network Analyst/Residential Networking Support Coordinator
MIT Distributed Computing and Network Services
Director, Boston Computer Society Internet SIG
