Re: Ethernet file server

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From: Matthias Scheler
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 18:29

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Gregory Helleren wrote in comp.sys.amiga.networking about "Ethernet file
server":
> A colleague suggested that it might be a good idea to get a cheap PC
> clone as a file server for the network.

Envoy is an Amiga only network software so a PC can't be used as an Envoy
fileserver. But you could install Linux or better NetBSD-i386 on the PC and
use NFS via AmiTCP/IP. But you would lose the ability to share filesystems
between the Amigas because AmiTCP/IP doesn't offer a NFS server yet.

-- 
Matthias Scheler
tron@lyssa.owl.de

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