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From: buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Buhrow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.misc
Subject: ARE THERE ANY ALTERNATIVES FOR PC-NFS BESIDES SUN'S OFFERING
Date: 6 Aug 1993 02:27:50 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <23sfj6INN2ju@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.ucsc.edu
Keywords: Unix, NFS, client, server, Sun, anti-Sun


	I was recently asked to evaluate the various ways of connecting a
collection of IBM compatibles together.  We can use Novell, but I was also
considering using a Unix nfs file server with PC-NFS clients running on the
pc's.  Would this scenario provide the same functionality with respect to
file access as a Novell server?  That is, can you make the network drive
look like a local drive to the pc (g:, etc.)?
	What about MS-DOS nfs clients?  Are there nfs client programs out
there besides Sun's PC-NFS which, at last check, ran for $250.00, or there
abouts, a station?
	Please e-mail any responses to: buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu as I don't have
time to read all of these groups.  
Thank you very much in advance for any light anyone can shed on these
questions.  
	If interest develops from others, I'll summarize the results.

-Brian