From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 9 02:51:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA09798 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 02:51:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from carlton.innotts.co.uk (root@carlton.innotts.co.uk [194.176.128.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA09792 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 02:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from [194.176.128.198] (seriald05.innotts.co.uk [194.176.128.198]) by carlton.innotts.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA18482; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 10:47:43 GMT X-Sender: robmel@mailhost.innotts.co.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 10:54:08 +0000 To: "Marty Leisner" From: robmel@innotts.co.uk (Robin Melville) Subject: Re: Need rpc.rlockd -- any chance of finding it? Cc: Michael Smith , questions@freebsd.org, Stephen Hovey Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 3:52 pm 8/3/96, Marty Leisner wrote: >>... I'm reluctant to move to multi-protocol networking. We need TCP/IP for= SQL client/server work. NFS seems an elegant solution to file sharing too,= and works cheerfully and quickly in its current implementation (on the SCO = box). >>=20 > >I think I agree..samba is RFC1001 (IP) based, so why is it >"multi-protocol?" > >Lan-manager integrates nicely in with windows...I don't think nfs is so=20 >clean... I use the Esker "TUN" TCP/IP products on our Windows=81 Boxes which does= integrate nicely. However, I bow to the assembled wisdom and will try= Samba.=20 >marty >leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com =20 >Member of the League for Programming Freedom (If only it were easy to program freedom!) :) Regards, Robin. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction Information Services = Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team =20 Tel: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 =20 work: robmel@nadt.org.uk home: robmel@innotts.co.uk=20 Pages: http://www.innotts.co.uk/~robmel (home page) http://www.innotts.co.uk/suba (UK substance misuse pages) = =20 ----------------------------------------------------------------------