Message-Id: <199705091805.NAA05373@sound.net> Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 13:14:58 -0500 From: "Jonathan E. Brickman" Reply-To: "Jonathan E. Brickman" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: NFS/LPD: an easier path for OD usefulness on most LANs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk > I agree totally with your assessment that NFS support would be great > (especially for connectivity to Linux). Even though I have a Personal > NetWare setup at home, I'd also like to get file server connectivity to my > Caldera boxes. I tried to get NFS working on DOS, but couldn't find > anything that was both 1) free, and 2) I could get running. Anybody on this list tried PC-NFS under OD yet? > However, I have to disagree about dumping Personal NetWare. It is quite > functional for many uses (particularly small networks at schools or > small businesses). I don't know why including something else necessarily > has to push it out as an option. "Has to," certainly not. I'm not even sure PNW should be dumped altogether. However, I think NFS/LPD would be an easier path to an easy-to-implement networkable DOS. The source is available to PC-NFS, and should be available to whichever LPD is used. Thus debugging and rewriting becomes doable. And clients abound for NFS and LPD on every major OS in use. The same can not be said for PNW. I am deliberately not using OD for any of my LAN-based clients, because PNW is not supported decently under Windows 95, and NT not at all as far as I know. If OD had NFS and LPD built-in, I could easily use an OD machine as a very good print or even low-load file server on most LANs, whether they be based on NetWare, Unix, or NT servers, because clients for NFS and LPD are so available. Jonathan E. Brickman River City Computing, Inc. (913) 232-6663 http://www.cjnetworks.com/~rivercity brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com It seems to me that men usually think more about carburetors, and women think more about doors. I think the world needs really good carburetors...and really good doors.