From: martin@RADIOGAGA.HARZ.DE (Martin Vorlaender)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: NFS Alpha / Windows NT
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 17:52:46 +0100
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siim@specht.demon.co.uk wrote:
: I'm developing an application where an Alpha/VMS shares data files
: with a Windows NT box. 
: As the Alpha doesn't have an NFS server license, a directory of the NT
: box is mounted remotely on the Alpha, using UCX. On the NT side, I'm
: using the Intergraph DiskShare NFS server.
: Here's my problem: when the NT box is down for whatever reason, every
: command on the Alpha that accesses the shared directory, just hangs
: until the NT box is back on-line. 

: Is there a way to check whether a shared directory is actually
: available, beforing trying to access it ?

I presume the downtime of the NT box is much higher than that of the
VMS system?

Why then not go with a solution that utilizes the more stable side of
the connection (i.e. VMS)? Samba for VMS is a LAN manager server, that
is, directories exported by Samba are seen as native network drives by NT.

Samba is freeware. The home site of the VMS port (which runs fine with
UCX, BTW) is http://www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sonst/samba-vms.html

cu,
  Martin
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