PC NFS or others?

[Paul Gillingwater]

In article <1990Jun16.010848.29014 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>>In article <3538 at navy19.UUCP> benyukhi at motcid.UUCP (Ed Benyukhis) writes:
>>-Can anyone recommend the software for the following setup.  386/25 running
>>-ESIX or 386/ix needs to be networked with several DOS bases engines.  Need 
>>-suggestions on how to accomplish such a set up. Especially on the DOS side.
>>-Is PC-NFS available????  Anything??? Anyone???
>
>PC-NFS works pretty well (it does take up something lik 80 - 100 K of 
>memory on the pc's though).

>I have heard good words about PC-Interface (the server for which is included
>in 386/ix), so you might want to check it out also.

There's another option, folks.  It's called Microsoft LAN Manager.  Last
week I installed HP's version of this, connecting MS-DOS based PC's with
an HP9000 HP-UX (UNIX) box.  It provides similar functionality to PC-NFS,
i.e. the ability to treat UNIX subdirectories as DOS drives (e.g. D:).  It
also supports print spooling redirection of LPT1: to the UNIX printer
of your choice.

On the plus side, it means you don't have to buy PC-NFS or UNIX NFS.
It has quite strong security features, with either user-level or share-
level security.  The spooling is quite nice too.  It runs on
MS-DOS, OS/2, HP-UX and SCO UNIX, and the documentation is up to HP's
usual high standards.

On the minus side, you really have to buy ARPA services for MS-DOS in
order to get ftp, telnet, remsh and rcp.
-- 
Paul Gillingwater, paul at actrix.co.nz