[NCSA-discuss] SCO nfs

[Jeffrey Johnson]

Joe,

SCO used to have a repository called Skunkworks where they had
compiled a bunch of BSD or Linux packages to be used with their
product. Seems like NFS would have been a standard feature, so you
might want to find out if the customer has the original install media.
It might be located there. Otherwise, do a search for SCO Skunkworks
and you should be able to find the current location, or if not, a
archive location for the open source components. Also, you may be able
to compile the sources for it.

Good Luck.

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On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> I was asked to look at a SCO (5.0.4) box the other day to see if I could put
> a NAS on it to act as a backup device. I couldn't find nfs (man nfs, and man
> nfsd said "not found") and nothing obvious in /sbin or /usr/sbin. The
> machine is stand-alone (not networked) and I didn't think to look to see if
> I could configure an ethernet device, so it's possible that none of the
> networking is installed either.
>
> The machine is in a retailer; it's only purpose is to do
> accounts. They're happy with their vt100/curses interface.
> Upgrading to a current version of SCO is $15k and they would
> rather not do that.
>
> SCO and the one reseller I tried aren't returning phone calls, so I thought
> I'd see if anyone here knows.
>
> o is SCO installed in packages such that it's possible that nfs (and
> networking) aren't installed or weren't purchased? Do you buy each bit of
> SCO separately? Is it possible that networking/nfs is on the install CD but
> hasn't been installed?
>
> o from what I've read of SCO back in those days, nfs was v2 and some/many
> NASs have trouble with nfs v2.
>
> Thanks Joe
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