Hi,
I would like to thank all those who replied so
promptly to the following :
I have PCNFSpro Ver2.0 nfs client installed on some Win95
PC's. All appears to work fine except for long filesnames
displaying in the explorer and the filemanager. These are
truncated and chopped with tildes etc.
Also for files created in uppercase and mixed case, when saved
to an nfs mounted Solaris 2.4 unix partition are
created as lowercase files on the unix partition. Are there
any ways of overcoming these limitations.
Replies :
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1. As you know perhaps, long file names are not supported for the moment.
More info in Release notes of PRO2.0 on CD.
kurt@abcomp.be (Kurt Degieter)
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2. Unfortunately it is impossible to use ling file names in PC NFS Pro 2.0.
Also PC can't use uppercase letters for filenames. ;-(
Did you try to configure PC NFS pro 2.0 PPP ?
It worked good in Windows 3.11 but doesn't work in Win95.
Alex Kontorovich - Software Engineer <alex@eandm.co.il>
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3. Can't remember all the details but PC-NFS supports an industry standard long file naming convention and win95 doesn't. Someone else may have a more accur ate explanation.
greg.kranz@amp.com (Greg Kranz)
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4. I am considering upgrading from 5.1 to pro myself. In researching the move
I found out sun has a patch to pro for running under win95. You should
check it out.
Anthony *Tony* Pietrzykoski <tpetchy@wea.com>
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5. don't bother with PC-NFS pro. Its utter *****. Use something
like NFS-Maestro instead- this gives you a true 32bit VxD,
handles long filenames, supports NFS V3 (Asynch writes = faster).
We get throughput of about 600k on 10BASE-T ethernet and
4.5Mb/s on fast ethernet. There are other Win95 NFS clients
apart from Maestro that are also worth checking out- but ditch
NFSpro if its not too late.
Steve Phelps <steve@epic.co.uk>
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6. I'm pretty sure that if you read the documentation that coems with the
PC-NFSpro 2.0 release, you'll find that it explicitly says that the
advanced file naming features of Win 95 which you're asking about are
not supported. There's nothing you can do to get around it with the
product.
Dave Miner - SunSoft Engineering <dave.miner@East.Sun.COM>
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7. version 3 of pcnfspro might help. it is due out soon. you probaboy are also
unable to use win95's backup program.
Bert Shure <Bert_Shure%SOLSOURCE@notes.worldcom.com>
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8. There are other solutions other than PC-NFS which overcome this problem.
VisionFS is a product we have that installs on the server (SUN, HP and others ) and Windows users access files and printers using standard Windows
networking i.e. nothing has to be installed on the Windows box.
There are no limitations with file names and also it uses UNIX security.
If you are interested let me know and I'll send you an eval copy.
Guy Singh <guy@sco.COM>
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Again many thanks to all those who replied and
keep up the good work.
regards,
James.
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