Hi,
First, I'd like to thank the following people for quick responses:
mxsq@hercules.Casc.com (Michael Scott)
pburyk@leis.leis.bellcore.com (Patrick Buryk)
scoggin@delmarva.com (John K Scoggin Jr)
My original query:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a problem in which a customer needs to integrate a small network
>>of Suns into an existing, corporate-wide, Banyan Vines PC-based network.
>>
>>I am aware that Banyan sells ENS for Solaris, that, in effect, allows
>>you to run a Banyan server on a Solaris box (enabling the Banyan
>>StreeTalk naming service and Vines file-and-print sharing). I'm under
>>the impression, though, that with ENS for Solaris, in order for the PCs and
>>the Suns to transparently share the same files, the Vines PC clients would
>>need to access a Banyan file service running on the ENS for Solaris server
>>and the Sun clients would simply use NFS to access the same filesystem.
>>
>>The problem is that the customer does not want to have to go out and
>>buy a Sun Sparcserver and Banyan ENS for Solaris software. They want to
>>use their existing Intel-based Banyan Vines server and have the Suns
>>access the software running on this server, either through running an
>>NFS server package on the Vines server (kind of like Novell's Netware NFS
>>product on Netware servers) or run Vines client emulation software on the
>>Suns.
>>
>>I was wondering if any sun managers have actually run into an integration
>>problem like this and found a solution that works.
>>
>>Thanx in advance!
>>
To keep the summary short and sweet, I received 2 responses pointing me
towards Incognito Software's NFS for Vines product. It's an NFS server
that runs as a third party service directly on the Vines server. Incognito
Software is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and can be
reached at (604) 688-4332, as well as email via info@incognito.com.
I contacted them and received a product spec sheet and for $1,995 this
is exactly what is was looking for! FYI, the Vines server also requires
the Banyan TCP/IP routing option to be installed on it, as well.
Thanx again!
Bill Maggio
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William J. Maggio
Lan & Computer Integrators, Inc.
242 Old New Brunswick Road Email: bmaggio@lci.com
Suite 100 Voice: 908-981-1991
Piscataway, NJ 08855 Fax : 908-981-8083
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