From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 15:05:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA08281 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:05:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA08263 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:05:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA01086; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:04:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:04:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Vasily V. Grechishnikov" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where get good NFS client for DOS ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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