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I am posting this for a friend of mine.
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I have a question regarding Apollo and Sun NFS. We have a network
of Sun workstations (4.3BSD + NFS) and an apollo (4.2 Domain/IX). We are
porting some software from Sun environment to Apollo and in doing so had to
duplicate source on both (Sun and Apollo) due to lack of NFS connection
between Sun and Apollo.  This resulted in disk space problems on the Apollo.

So, now the problem:

  * How can we integrate apollo into the Sun NFS environment?
  * Does apollo follow standard NFS protocol. (No mention of NFS was
    made in any of the manuals).
  * First of all, can it be done with minor fixes/patches to existing code?
  * If so, could you please give me pointers as to where to start?
  * If not, is there any public/private domain software which does this?

Sorry for asking so many questions in one breath. Any ideas, theories,
anything at all will be greatly appreciated.

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I will gladly pass along any information to the person concerned.

Seenu Banda

..!pyramid!isieng!seenu

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Seenu                  
..pyramid!isieng!seenu

NFS is available for Apollos from Apollo.  It does have some problems
though.  The major problem we have is that you cannot mount a non-Apollo
NFS partition and expect everything to work as if it were an Apollo disk.
The reason for this (I believe) is problems with file types.  Our major
gripe with this is that we cannot execute programs that are on an NFS
partition on our VAX.

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