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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <mailman.8.1233278805.16357.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>,
	bradhamilton <bradhamilton at comcast.net> writes:
> 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).
> [...]
 
Yes, but, speaking as one who has, in the past, used VMS NFS rather
extensively, there is a big difference between using it to backup
your system on (like a tape drive) and using it for user access from
dis-similar machines.

bill
 

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