[Info-vax] Does anyone know how to connect a NAS system to OVMS??

[bradhamilton]

Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2:18�pm, Len Whitwer <l... at psds.com> wrote:
>   
>> Just bought a 4TB NAS and would like to connect up to our ES45 OVMS
>> 7.3 in house system. Does anyone know how to do this??????
>>     
>
> What you need is either a CIFS client or an NFS client.  There is no
> CIFS client available for OpenVMS 7.3 that I'm aware of.  MultiNet has
> an NFS client option available - I don't know if UCX does.
>   
It does, at least the later versions...
> The short answer, there's no really good & easy way to use an external
> NAS appliance from OpenVMS 7.3.
>   
I disagree - at my last VMS job, I was tasked to connect the local VMS 
boxes to a NAS, so that we could backup VMS to the NAS, and get rid of 
tape drives.  Done in a day - if I knew more about NFS, I could have 
done it quicker (I spent most of the day teaching myself about NFS 
client on VMS).
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