Tom - I suggest you look into the PC-Enterprise/PC-Interface product from Platinum technologies. It provides PC & (sometime soon) Mac access to AFS, DFS and NFS simultaneously through a translator. This product has MANY advantages over the AFS->NFS->PC-NFS-client approach, with performance and flexibility coming close to the top of the list. The Platinum folks are pretty free with evaluation copies of their software so you should be able to try before you buy. I can't give a blanket endorsement because we only have a small installed base using the product. There are still some questions about scalability (#clients/gateway, size of gateway, etc.) which we will be working on. Also, I have not seen an NT version but have heard that it is under development. Try http://www.platinum.com and http://www.locus.com/products for the sales info. Hope this helps. Good luck, -- Tom /*<*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*>*<*>*/ Dr. Thomas A. Harper, Sr. Research Scientist Pacific Northwest National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (509) 375-2150 FAX: (509) 375-6631 PGP fingerprint = E1 8F 5E 94 D3 15 72 7F 87 77 8C 4C 5C 43 7B 2F /*<*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*>*<*>*/ ---------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 1996 10:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Win NT NFS clients and AFS to NFS translator 1) I have installed Hummingbird Communication's NFS client (called NFS Maestro) on both Windows NT and Windows 95 (ver 5.1). After mounting the /afs filesystem exported from an AIX box running the AFS to NFS tranlator, I experience the following problems: - If a directory is in the root of an AFS volume, a dir listing takes a minimum of 90 seconds to complete. - Reads on files in these directories seem to hang indefinitely. - Haven't tried writes in these directories. It seems any operation involving the root of a volume takes a really long time, or doesn't complete at all. On the other hand, I have been able to do pretty much anything in directories that are at least 1 directory below the root of a volume. Of course there are exceptions: a dir on a large directory that was one directory below a volume mount point just hung. So, has anybody experienced this before? AND/OR can you recommend a NFS client for Windows NT and/or 95 which you have seen seemlessly mount and use the export(s) from an AFS to NFS translator machine. 2) I would like to be able to mount /afs/btv or /afs/btv.ibm.com, where btv.ibm.com is my local cell. By the NFS standard, I should be able to mount any directory underneath the exported directory, as long as they are on the same file-system..... [uh, err, I think answered my own question: practically every directory in /afs is a mount point to the root of the various cells, so exporting /afs doesn't export these volumes/filesystems as well. If the AFS to NFS server explicitly exports /afs/btv.ibm.com, then I should be able to do what I want, right?] This means Windows File Manager or Explorer won't choke on the root of the particular "afs" drive, since the root of cells aren't usually as nebulous as /afs. Thanks in advance for your help. Tom -------------------------------------------------------------- Softline International at IBM Microelectronics, Burlington, VT Tom Moore, Lou Evart, Trevor Anderson IBM Internal: BTV(V2SOFTLN), [EMAIL PROTECTED] T/L: 446-5763 External: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 802-769-5763 --------------------------------------------------------------
