#Windows NT ?NFS?
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Hi all,
I have recently added Windows NT to a Pentium class computer and would like to
try and use it as a server for a variety of WindowsForWorkgroups and AmigaDos
equiped PCs.
The question I have is that while Windows NT (Server v3.5) comes with TCP/IP it
does not come with NFS. Is NFS required (that is what I had been planning to
use to get my Amigas up) or can I use some other tool. If NFS is required, as
I think it is, can anyone tell me of any sources for NFS for Windows NT?
Thanks in advance.
-John
An update. I have found that with "ftp" you can use Windows NT/AmigaDOS TCP/IP
to send and receive files over the network. However, NFS, it seems, will be
required to make the hole process appear transparent, ie., as if remote hard
drives are local to the networked PC.
-John
Ah, finally a question I can answer! 🙂
If you've got some kind of TCP/IP software on the Amiga side that also includes
an NFS client, then you just need to find an NFS server for WinNT… and
fortunately, there are at least two in the freeware domain. I've used one,
called SOSS, and there's another called Tropic.
Mounting the Amiga drive so they are visible on the PC is possible, too, I
think – except you need NFS client software for WinNT, and I've only seen that
as commercial software. For example, I got a call yesterday from Netmanage,
the company that makes Chameleon, one of many TCP/IP and NFS enhancement
packages for Windows and WinNT. For $800 or so, you get a better suite of
tools than Microsoft provides. The salesdroid, Andre Chapman, (408) 973-6405
x7164, offered me a 30 day trial on a P.O. basis. I might try it.
I know the AS225 beta 2, never officially released by Commodore, but handed out
to developers, included an NFS server. It was a bit clumsy in the way it
maintained an in-memory mapping of the filenames (inodes), I think it could
lose information if you didn't shut the Amiga down a certain way. AS225b2 was
the code handed over to any of the companies who licensed it and who may be
reselling it now, like the Enlan people.
I'm also hoping for an Amiga port of Samba. This networking package would let
you mount the Amiga drives on the PC if they were running any form of LAN
Manager, from LM for DOS, to WfW, to Windows, to WinNT. I already use Samba on
my SGI, to mount its drive as a PC drive.
So, give me a moment, and I'll upload SOSS. Are you interested?
Absoulutely, John, re:SOSS. I downloaded a 9MB evaluation copy of Integraph's
NT-NFS Server/Client stuff and have it up and running. They want $800 for the
license however.
I have heard that people are working on a NFS server package for the Amiga, but
that there is not one available today. Do you think it would be worth a call
to see if Alan at Enlan has one, or someone else possibly. I'd be willing to
pay as long as it is not $800. I will also keep my eyes out for an Amiga Samba
and if I find it let you know.
Thanks again for uploading SOSS, John
-John
John,
Chameleon is one of the worst Intenet suites out there; just
bottom-of-the-barrel garbage.
They don't respond worth a darn for technical support, either.
I own it; wish I didn't.
"Internet in a Box" is a much more powerful, much less limited package with
more flexibility and some serious capabilities not even approached by
Chameleon.
FYI.
Ben Williams
for Black Belt Systems