Using the network

Accessing shared files

Although the networking commands telnet, ftp, and rsh provide extremely useful access to files on other machines, your network can be even more useful if you have a distributed filesystem. In a distributed filesystem, you can read, edit, delete, and otherwise access files on another machine just as if the files were on your local machine.

Your UnixWare Desktop or UnixWare 7 Enterprise Edition provides filesharing capabilities between other SCO OpenServer systems, via the Network File System (NFS), as well as between UnixWare systems and other operating systems. These capabilities are provided by:

NetWare UNIX Client (NUC) to access files served by Novell^® NetWare servers, see Administering NUC Connectivity
SCO VisionFS, to provide filesharing capabilities to DOS, OS/2, or Windows personal computers, see File and Print Services for Windows clients through VisionFS

When NFS is configured by your system administrator on your network, you will be able to transparently access and manipulate files on other machines as if they were local to your machine.