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- From: work@tasha.guug.de (Felix Blank)
- Subject: Re: PC/NFS & Devices
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.153448.3426@tasha.guug.de>
- Keywords: NFS,devices
- References: <61@shady.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:34:48 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- rickp@shady.UUCP (Rick Poleshuck) writes:
-
- >I am currently using PC/NFS to connect my DOS laptop over ethernet
- >to connect to my SCO Unix box. It works quite well, but I would like
- >to have access to the tape drive on my Unix box from my DOS PC.
-
- >When I do a PC/NFS mount of a Unix directory, named pipes and devices
- >aren't even listed in a directory. I would like to back up my DOS PC
- >directly to the Unix tape drive. I don't have the free disk space on
- >my Unix box to make a temporary file.
-
- NFS is not capable of sharing device files over the net. Therefore no
- UNIX System can "mount" a device this way, neither MS-DOS can.
- AT&T has included in his System V environment another file sharing
- system, called RFS. This system can do, what you want, but PC/NFS
- is not able to handle shared RFS partitions.
-
- Felix
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