UNIX as a PC file server
David P. Geller
geller at eli.UUCP
Thu Jan 15 18:54:27 AEST 1987
Has anyone crafted a simple fileserver mechanism using a fairly
generic version of UNIX and one or more PC's. I'm looking for
something that is close to being functionally equivalent to
Suns NFS-PCNFS environment without a LAN - using serial lines.
This would require, I imagine, the following:
* an interface and protocol between the UNIX and PC system(s)
* a device driver for the PC
* a few primative application programs for the PC, sharedmail,
sharedfile, etc.
I would hope that PC and UNIX could talk fairly well, albeit slowly,
at, say, 19K with a protocol that does stream compression. Any pointers?
Remember - something so that a PC can just copy and use drive d:, for
example --- not someone logging into UNIX and using Xmodem, Kermit, etc.
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