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- From: kumark@austin.ibm.com (Kakumanu Kumar (Contractor))
- Subject: Some questions on DCE
- Originator: kumark@netftp.austin.ibm.com
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:06:08 GMT
- Organization: IBM Austin
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- To all the DCE Gurus:
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- 1. What kinds of platforms is DCE intended to run on?
- Suppose we write an application for AIX using DCE RPC, will it run
- without (i.e. that is, without) any modifications on say, for example
- a SUN OS, PC with Windows NT or OS/2 or a HP workstation?
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- 2. I have an application that is currently working fine with
- HP RPC (Network Computing System). How easy it is to convert it to
- DCE RPC? I understand that the DCE comes with a Kerboros security
- system. Can I easily integrate that kerboros thing into my NCS application?
- Is there any documentation for transition from NCS RPC to DCE RPC?
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- 3. Are there any courses on DCE Application Programming or
- DCE/DME system adm. internals free of charge?
- I guess, I am asking too much.
-
- 4. Currently, our application has to run on as many different platforms
- as possible, with location of the servers transparent to the clients. DCE
- seems to be an ideal solution, but we can't assume that DCE will be there on
- every client system that our software runs, so we would like to build a general
- communication class library which can work on top of any network protocol..
- RPC, TCP/IP, NetBIOS etc. So in the future if we need to have our software
- run on say, machine foobar without DCE on it, we can immediately say, oh
- you can run the software with our general comm. class library with this
- specific TCP/IP derived class..and you won't have any problems.
- Does any body know the existence of any communication class libraries
- which can run on top of RPC, TCP/IP, NetBIOS etc.
- I have all the respect for DCE, but I also want to take care of
- the case when my client machine doesn't have DCE installed on it.
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- 5. If I develop an application using DCE and market it, do I pay
- any fee for the OSF for marketing a DCE application?
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- Some of the above may be real silly, but the fact is that
- I do not know answers to them. So I thought I should get some
- advice from the wise folks out there on the network. Not a bad idea..eh?
-
- -Kumar Kakumanu
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