[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Alternatively, there is PCVENUS. I have been trying unsuccessfully to
> get information about this for quite a while.
PCVENUS is an MS-DOS "redirector" that was written at Carnegie Mellon
a long time ago, that (among other functions) lets you access
directory hierarchies an AFS as "virtual" DOS drives (kind of like
what PC-NFS does with NFS filesystems).
PCVENUS requires a TCP/IP stack to be running on the PC (I think it
uses FTP Software's package), and talks to a server process running on
a remote Unix machine. PCVENUS is *not* a true cache manager, even
though it's name might imply otherwise (long ago, when it was still
the Andrew File System, and almost all of the cache manager ran
outside the kernel, the cache manager used to be called "venus2"
instead of "afsd"); it relies on the cache manager running on the
remote machine to do all AFS operations on its behalf.
This was all designed a long, long time ago (MS-DOS 2.x timeframe),
before there was a redirector interface in DOS - thus, sometimes it
doesn't work quite right in modern environments with modern DOS
versions. I am told, for instance, that PCVENUS virtual drives are not
visible when running under Windows. I was thinking about taking a
copy of this software and fixing it to use the "real" redirector
interface, but never got a chance to do it.
The server side of this software is available in the Andrew Toolkit
distribution (you can find this in the "contrib" side of the X11R5
distribution), in the "overhead/snap2/guardian" directory. I don't
know if the client side is available at all; perhaps someone from CMU
will be able to comment authoritatively.
--Pat.
