The PC-Mac TCP/IP & NFS FAQ listThe PC-Mac TCP/IP & NFS FAQ list
Version 2.4
by Rawn Shah
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Welcome to the PC TCP/IP & NFS Frequently Asked Questions list. This list contains information that might help you decide upon a TCP/IP or NFS product for your PC or Macintosh. This is my first attempt at a real HTML document so please send any email to me if there is any problems with this document.
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*-1. What topics does this FAQ cover?
*-2. Where can I get this FAQ?
*-3. Who helped write this FAQ?
*-4. Who maintains this FAQ?
*-5. Who maintains comp.protocols.nfs?
*-6. Where are the archives for comp.protocols.nfs?
*-7. Trademarks and Registered names.
*-8. What do the -, + and * before the questions mean?
*-9. Whats up and coming in the next issue of the FAQ list?
The real FAQ:
A-1. What is NFS?
A-2. What is (PC)NFS?
A-3a. Where can I get TCP/IP and NFS for my DOS system?
A-3b. Where can I get TCP/IP and NFS for my MS-Windows system?
A-3c. Where can I get TCP/IP and NFS for my Macintosh system?
A-3d. Where can I get TCP/IP and NFS for my OS/2 system?
A-4. What is PC-NFS as opposed to (PC)NFS?
A-5. What is TCP/IP?
A-6. What is Ethernet?
A-7. What is SLIP?
A-8. What is PPP?
A-9. What is Appletalk?
A-10. What is telnet? What is ftp?
A-11. What is a client? What is a server? Why do I need them?
A-12. Where can I get (PC)NFS cheap/free/PD?
A-13. What is SOS & SOSS? Where can I get it?
A-14. Are there any free NFS clients available for DOS?
A-15. What is MacTCP?
A-16. What is KIP?
A-17. What is DDP-IP?
B-1. What are the different types of drivers available?
B-2. -What are "shim"s? What shims are available?
B-3. What are packet drivers? Where do I get them?
B-4. Can I use packet drivers with (PC)NFS?
B-5. Can I run (PC)NFS over SLIP?
B-6. Can I run (PC)NFS at the same time as Netware?
B-7. Can I run (PC)NFS at the same time as CUTCP or NCSA Telnet?
B-8. Can (PC)NFS run with NDIS drivers?
B-9. Can I use (PC)NFS to mount a diskless PC from a remote server?
B-10. Can (PC)NFS run over token ring?
B-11. Can I run PC-NFS with my 3C509 Etherlink III card?
B-12. Can I run PC-NFS slip at higher baud rates than 9600?
B-13. Can I access an MSCDEX CD-ROM with PC-NFS?
B-14. Can I run programs which require a packet driver when I really run NDIS?
B-15. How does ODI compare to NDIS?
B-16. How can I connect a LocalTalk network to Macintoshes on the Ethernet?
B-17. What is PKTMUX used for?
C-1. What is pcnfsd? What is pcnfsdv2?
C-2. Where can I get pcnfsd for my server system?
C-3. -What is lockd?
C-4. How can I test NFS performance?
C-5. What is NHFSSTONES? Where can I get it?
C-6. -What will help my server increase performance?
C-7. How many nfsd's & biod's should I run on my server?
C-8. What is asynchronous I/O? How can I modify my NFS server system to use
asynchronous I/O?
C-9. What is a good NFS server?
C-10. What is LADDIS?
C-11. What is XRemote & LBX?
D-1. Where can I get mail with (PC)NFS?
D-2. Where can I get news with (PC)NFS?
D-3. Where can I get an FTP server?
D-4. Where can I get rwalld for (PC)NFS? [May be removed, please read]
D-5. Where can I get a INT-14 redirector for (PC)NFS?
D-6. Where can I get YPPASSWD for PC-NFS?
D-7. Where can I get IBM 3270 terminal for (PC)NFS?
D-8. Where can I get an X-Windows server for (PC)NFS?
D-9. -Where can I get a calender/scheduling program for (PC)NFS?
D-10. Where can I get a database that works with (PC)NFS?
D-11. Where can I get a WAIS client for (PC)NFS?
D-12. Where can I get an archie for (PC)NFS?
D-13. Where can I get a gopher client for (PC)NFS?
D-14. Where can I get a WWW (World Wide Web) client for (PC)NFS?
D-15. Where can I get X25 for (PC)NFS?
D-16. Where can I get NEWGRP.EXE for PC-NFS?
D-17. Where can I get AUTOCONF for PC-NFS?
D-18. Where can I get a backup utiliy for (PC)NFS?
D-19. Which (PC)NFS packages support DNS [named]?
D-20. Where can I get a traceroute program?
D-21. Where can I get an LPD program?
D-22. Where can I get an LPR program?
D-23. Where can I get an NSLOOKUP program?
D-24. Where can I get an WWW server?
D-25. Where can I get an Whois client?
E-1. -How can I load (PC)NFS into DOS high memory?
E-2. Can I use DNS instead of NIS with PC-NFS?
E-3. Why do some versions of (PC)NFS not follow symbolic links?
E-4. PC-NFS v4.0 has trouble with Cntl-S, Cntl-Q.
E-5. PC-NFS v4.0 has trouble with redrawing the window while in MS-Windows.
E-6. +PC-NFS v4.0 doesn't allow me to access the local printer when I have network printers.
E-7. I cannot delete any file that PC-NFS makes with a ~ (tilde) in it.
E-8. PC-NFS says that it cannot open any more files even when the limit in autoexec.bat is set higher.
E-9. Can (PC)NFS mount file systems which are bigger than 2 GB?
E-10. What is NFS/TCP? Will it work with my NFS?
E-11. +What is PKTD.SYS? Where can I get it?
E-12. How can I run Novell Netware (tm) 3.xx at the same time as (PC)NFS using NDIS?
E-13. -How many PC's can work with a single PC-NFS server?
E-14. Is it possible to modify the read & write buffer sizes in (PC)NFS?
E-15. How can I install Ethernet boards not supported by (PC)NFS?
E-16. In postscript files I sometimes get a ^D before the header from my programs. How do I get rid of it?
E-17. On the server, how do I get rid of TCP connections which say that they are CLOSING but never do (without a reboot)?
E-18. How do I set up IP connections over a LocalTalk network? How do I connect a LocalTalk network to an Ethernet?
E-19. Do I set Daylight savings time in Europe?
E-20. Is there a Winsock interface for LAN WorkPlace?
F-1. Is there a toolkit for (PC)NFS programming? Whats the latest version
and where can I get it?
F-2. What is the Windows Sockets API (winsock)? Where can I get it?
F-3. What is the latest version of the NFS protocol?
F-4. What happened to version 3 of the NFS protocol?
F-5. What is the current RPC version? Where can I get it?
F-6. Where can I get the RPC definition for PCNFSD?
F-7. What are RFC's? What RFC's describe the NFS protocol? Where can I get
these RFC's?
F-8. How can I tell if a file is NFS mounted from a server?
F-9. What does APP2SOCK do?
F-10. Which DOS call will give a list of mounted file systems?
G-1. Network Drivers and Hardware Protocols.
G-2. Foreign Network Protocols and Operating System Co-operation.
G-3. IP protocols supported.
G-4. Terminal emulations and Remote Connectivity capabilities of products.
G-5. Mail, WhoIs, Finger, News, Talk, NTalk.
G-6. NFS, FTP, TFTP, Network Backup and Network Printing.
G-7. Servers.
G-8. Network Utilities (nslookup, ping, traceroute, netstat, route, snmp)
G-9. Features of X servers.
H-1. Chest - Council for Higher Education Software Transfer [UK]
H-2. X/Open
H-3. Books
H-4. Related Papers (published)
H-5. Popular FTP sites
H-6. Related FAQ's, USENET lists, mail lists.
H-7. Glossary.
H-8. +PD/Shareware Winsock Software List.
W-1. CliqAccessories Quadratron Systems
W-2. Higgins Group Prod sw Enable Software
W-3. Linkage Concentric Technologies
W-4. OpenMail Hewlett-Packard
W-5. PathWay Messenger The Wollongong Group.
W-6. +Eudora (Mac & PC) Qualcomm Software.
W-7. SelectMail SunSelect
W-8. AIRMail Spry, Inc.
X-1. eXceed Hummingbird Software Ltd.
X-2. eXcursion DEC
X-3. eXodus White Pines Software.
X-4. Micro X-Lite StarNet Communications Corporation.
X-5. MultiView/X JSB Corporation
X-6. PC-Xware & PC-Xview NCD, Inc.
X-7. PC X-server & PC Link XLink
X-8. PC-Xsight Locus Computing Corp.
X-9. PC DECWindows Motif DEC
X-10. Reflection X Walker, Richer & Quinn
X-11. X Appeal Xtreme s.a.s.
X-12. Xoftware AGE Logic, Inc.
X-13. Xvision VisionWare Soft, Inc
X-14. X-windows for OS/2 IBM
Y-1. eNFS INTERSTREAM
Y-2. Multinet TGV, Inc.
Y-3. -DEC TCP/IP Digitial Equipment Corp.
Y-4. -NHFSSTONE Legato
Y-5. -PrestoServe Legato
Y-6. SOSS Rich Braun
Y-7. TCPWare for VMS Process Software Corp.
Y-9. Trumpet Winsock Peter Tattam.
Y-10. -WinVN
Y-11. Cello Cornell Law School/Thomas Bruce
Y-12. MacPPP Merit Network
Y-13. PPP for NCSA Telnet Merit Network
Y-14. AIR Navigator SPRY, Inc.
Y-15. WATTCP Erick Engelke
Y-16. *WinTrumpet Newsreader Peter Tattam
Y-17. *WS Ping John Junod
Y-18. *WS FTP John Junod
Y-19. *QWS3270 Jim Rymerson
Y-20. *WinSock Gopher Dave Brooks
Y-21. *NCSA & Mac Mosaic NCSA
Y-22. *WinSock Finger Tidewater Systems
Z-1. AIR for Windows SPRY, Inc.
Z-2. BW-NFS & BW-TCP Beame & Whiteside, Inc.
Z-3. Chameleon NFS NetManage
Z-4. CU/TCP Clarkson University/Rutgers University
Z-5. Distinct TCP Distinct Corp.
Z-6. -LAN Manager TCP/IP Microsoft Corp.
Z-7. LAN Workplace NFS Novell, Inc.
Z-8. NCSA Telnet Nat'l Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Z-9. NFS/Share Intercon, Inc.
Z-10. NS & ARPA Services Hewlett-Packard, Inc.
Z-11. Pathway Access DOS/Win The Wollongong Group.
Z-12. PathWay Access OS/2 The Wollongong Group.
Z-13. PC-NFS SunSelect Inc.
Z-14. PC/TCP FTP Inc.
Z-15. Reflection Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc.
Z-16. SuperTCP Frontier Technology, Corp.
Z-17. TCP/IP for DOS IBM
Z-18. TCP/IP for OS/2 IBM
Z-19. TCP/Open Lanera Corp.
Z-20. TTCP Turbosoft Pte. Ltd.
Z-21. *Trumpet WinApps Peter Tattam
Z-22. WinQVT QPC Software, Inc.
Z-23. Fusion Pacific Softworks, Inc.
Z-24. PathWay Access for Mac The Wollongong Group.
Z-25. ICE/TCP James River Group
Z-26. Piper/IP IPswitch, Inc.
Z-27. TCP/Connect II Intercon, Inc.
Z-28. TUN Esker
Z-29. *Vantage/IP IPswitch, Inc.
Z-30. *Lantastic Artisoft,Inc.