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From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Can 386BSD be used as a NFS Server?
Date: 31 Mar 1993 09:12:33 -0600
Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX
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In article <CGD.93Mar30222307@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>In article <VV77076.93Mar29183932@lehtori.cc.tut.fi> vv77076@cc.tut.fi (Vanhatupa Vesa) writes:
>>I have 386BSD installed on my machine and I am wondering if it can be
>>used as NFS server for computer(s) with MSDOS/OS/2.
>
>if your client talks nfs, 386bsd will do it.  no questions asked, really.
>
>chris
>

  The only problem is that there are two different nfs standards.  One is the 
ONC standard that we/SUN/PC-NFS uses, and the other is the SMB (Server Message 
Block) standard.  If you are using 10-Net (like we are) then you are going to
run into pronblems.  10Net (and others) use the SMB protocol.

  I am working on a server that will accept SMB requests and interface to
the ONC client software as it exists currently.  Along with everything else,
of course.  In other words, I should finish it sometime before the turn of
the century.


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TSgt Dave Burgess
NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office
Brooks AFB, TX