Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:04:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Vasily V. Grechishnikov" <bazilio@economic.acnit.ac.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where get good NFS client for DOS ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970110150101.1014K-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970110151126.3779A-100000@economic.acnit.ac.ru>
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On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Vasily V. Grechishnikov wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 2.1.6R on the our InterNet gateway and it is a > router for another 2 - LANs . Inside the my LAN I have LAN Server 5.0 > under WARP 3 as file server . For WARP 3 ,because it requred nice machine > i use P5 120 MHz , 32 Meg of RAM , 1.3 Gig of HDD . FreeBSD use the 5x86 > 133 MHz with 12 MB of RAM and 0.5 Gig HDD . I wish to move FreeBSD on the > P5 120 MHz machine , but one reason stops me to do this : I don't know > good NFS client for DOS. > Inside my LANs I have above then 15 machines under DOS or Win95, 2-3 > under OS/2 . Anybody can help me with finding a good NFS client for DOS ? > XFS by Robert Luhaz and other client can't satisfy my requirements > (too slow read, and so on) DOS and good NFS performance are not synonymous. :) XFS is about the best you're going to get for cheap. Even Novell's implementation isn't that great. And there's Sun's PC-NFS which is a *real* mess (supposedly). If you wanted to dump the Warp Server (IMHO not a great idea, Lan Server is a spectacular system) you could install samba on the FreeBSD box and use Windows Networking clients. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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