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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: SAMBA and NETWARE mounting
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 17:35:36 GMT
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In <3g4ker$1n9c@tiger1.ocs.lsu.edu> mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu (Matthew N. Dodd) writes:

>I have a student Netware lab that has an Indigo2 in it for running Softimage.
>The packet drivers only take up 4k of ram and let students transfer
>images from the PC's to the SGI box.  I have not implemented NFS on that
>net yet, but I may do so and unify user directories.  

I'm not at all debating whether it "can be done".  It is just that
nobody in their right mind would select NFS as the network filesystem in
a PC network, and therefore as an IP advocate you have a setback from
the beginning (having to use multiple protocols).  When there would be a
product that filled a customer requirement like Netware does, but used
IP as the network protocol, we would see a lot more IP and the issue "IP
or IPX" would not be there.  But alas, this is not the case...

Rob
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