From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 03:15:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA00565 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:15:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA00529 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:15:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from carlton.innotts.co.uk (root@carlton.innotts.co.uk [194.176.128.2]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id BAA23396 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:45:29 -0800 Received: from [194.176.128.196] (seriald03.innotts.co.uk [194.176.128.196]) by carlton.innotts.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA07997; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:44:25 GMT X-Sender: robmel@mailhost.innotts.co.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:50:31 +0000 To: Michael Smith From: robmel@innotts.co.uk (Robin Melville) Subject: Re: Need rpc.rlockd -- any chance of finding it? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Stephen Hovey Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Michael, Thanks for your blindingly rapid response to my query! At 11:38 am 8/3/96, Michael Smith wrote: >Robin Melville stands accused of saying: >... >There are two answers here : > >The first is : Abandon NFS for your PCs (and if possible, Macs as well). >I would _strongly_ advise experimenting with the 'samba' package that's >in the ports collection. This will provide markedly superior performance, >and as a side effect, get around the original problem. Interesting idea, but 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). >For the Macs the solution is a little murkier. There may be SMB clients >for the Mac as well, alternatively there's at least one, if not two >Appletalk servers that work under FreeBSD. Hmmm, see what I mean... >The second answer is : rpc.lockd is under development for FreeBSD. Sun >don't document the protocol, and it would take serious money to get >such information. There's an implementation of it in FreeBSD-current, >but I'm not sure whether it would build and run under -stable or 2.1R. I had a good hunt around on the FreeBSD ftp area before I posted originally. I've just had another ... can't see hair nor hide of this port. Is it included in the distribution, rather than as a package or port? >]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ Many thanks for your help. I've taken the liberty of cross-posting this to another respondent with a similar problem. Regards, Robin. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction Information Services Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team Tel: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 work: robmel@nadt.org.uk home: robmel@innotts.co.uk Pages: http://www.innotts.co.uk/~robmel (home page) http://www.innotts.co.uk/suba (UK substance misuse pages) ----------------------------------------------------------------------