NFS on MS-DOS

[onre]

Inspired by the other thread about the subject, I messed a bit with Sun's PC-NFS. Needs a lot of memory and ODI or NDIS drivers, but does work fine against Ubuntu 18.04 if you tell the kernel NFS server to support protocol version 2 by adding this to /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server:

RPCNFSDOPTS="--nfs-version 2,3,4 --debug --syslog"

And restarting the server. Obviously you can remove the debug and logging flags. PC-NFS does not seem to like uppercase file names on the server, like the XFS client mentioned in the other thread.

I also found this: http://www.rawbandwidth.com/software/ - haven't tried it out yet, but will do in a day or two, unless someone can report their experiences? This should work with just the packet driver.

 

[bob22]

Which version of PC-NFS did you have the most success with?

 

[onre]

The version was 5.0b. If you take care to not use uppercase in file names, it seems to work just fine.

 

[onre]

Got TSoft NFS going. This looks promising and has the smallest memory footprint so far - 63 kB NFSDRVR, 5 kB packet driver. I'm running it on an emulated 286 now. Used the same NFS server as with PC-NFS, had to specify auth=none option to MOUNT.EXE.

 

[jlang]

I've been using Tsoft NFS for a couple of decades. I liked it well enough to buy a license.
I'm using it on a later system. (5x86-133 lots of ram)
I can't tell you how it works on something smaller, but is has worked well for me.
I'm able lo load almost everything high, so the footprint is very small.
I have used it with Trumpet TCP, Novell TCP and MS TCP. Trumpet has the best footprint, MS the worst.
I prefer a TSR TCP stack. I want to be able to do things like Telnet or LPR without having to unmount everything.
Thats why I chose Tsoft over XFS. XFS also worked well.

I normally use Tsoft with Trumpet booting off a CF card So no spinning rust or noise.

joe

 

[Eudimorphodon]

Got TSoft NFS going. This looks promising and has the smallest memory footprint so far - 63 kB NFSDRVR, 5 kB packet driver.

That's about a tie with XFS, at least on my machine; a bit under 64k for the XFSKRL, 5k for the packet driver.

 

[dieymir]

xfs has a "small" footprint kernel (XFSKRNLM.EXE) that uses 55KB You must give up printing, though. Has anybody tested tsoft NFS with an 8088?

 

[onre]

Has anybody tested tsoft NFS with an 8088?

I have, now. Seems to work.

 

[dieymir]

I have, now. Seems to work.

Thanks for testing this.

 

[dieymir]

I tested tsoft NFS on a 8088 (4.77/10Mhz) and I can confirm that it works perfectly and it's really speedy too and, like XFS, you can remove it completely from memory when you're done with it.