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NFS 1.2c, Gateway 1.2: Y2K ready, no patch required (ref)
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This page covers version 1.x of the NFS product for NetWare 3.1x and 4.0x, and NFS Gateway product for NetWare 3.1x. These products were sold separately from NetWare and were available as a bundle as well as separately. For NetWare 4.1 they were combined together and sold as NFS Services version 2.1 - NetWare 4 Edition (1 May 1995). For details on that version, see the NFS Services 2.1 page.
This is just an NFS Server for NetWare. This lets you share NetWare volumes with UNIX hosts - possibly not a very useful thing in this day and age as your UNIX host is probably the one with all the disk space and your NetWare server is probably just virtualised. What is useful is that it includes an FTP Server for Netware! It also includes XConsole - a telnet/Remote-X version of RConsole.
There were four releases of the NFS product. Versions 1.1 and 1.2 support only NetWare 3.11. Version 1.2B adds NetWare 3.12 and (with a patch) Netware 4.0x support. Version 1.2C adds bug fixes. Patches were not released to upgrade to newer versions - you had to at a minimum buy a new media kit if not buy an entirely new license when upgrading to new versions. So if you're shopping for a copy of this product try to get at least version 1.2B if not 1.2C.
I've installed NFS 1.2C on my NetWare 3.2 server. Screenshots of the process including connecting to it from windows, linux and via FTP are available here. There are also some screenshots of XConsole.
| Date | Version | Notes |
| April 1991 or earlier | 1.1 | Initial release? v1.1 was listed as the latest version as of April 1991 in NSE Pro Volume 15. |
| January 1992 | 1.2 | v1.2 was listed as the latest version as of January 1992 in NSE Pro Volume 15. |
| March 1993 or Earlier | 1.2B | Adds NetWare 3.12 support. Supports NetWare 4.0x with a patch. Latest version as of March 1993 according to NSC 1996-12. |
| 1.2C |
| Date | Version | Download | Readme | Notes |
| 25 July 1991 | 1.1 | NFSPCH.ZIP | Readme | Fixes two bugs: 1. NFS server could run out of NFS request queue when the network is misconfigured., 2. NFS server needs to have a static patch mechanism. |
| 9 August 1991 | 1.1 | NFS002.ZIP | Readme | Fixes bug: NFS server could abend the server if cyclic recursive copy was issued from the client. |
| 21 August 1991 | 1.1 | NFS003.ZIP | Readme | Fixes a number of bugs |
| 15 May 1992 | 1.2 | NFS111.ZIP | Readme | Patch for NFSSERV and LOCKD for NFS 1.2. Fixes the following issues: 1. Time reduction in adding NFS name space and mounting large volumes. 2.
Lockd.nlm enhancements. 3. Fixes a few problems on permissions and share
violations. Unable to locate a copy of this patch - should be 70461 bytes in size. |
| 25 March 1994 | 1.2 | NFS113.EXE | Readme | NFS 1.2 Patch 6 - fixes various bugs. Originally released 12 June 1992. |
| 25 March 1994 | 1.2 | NFS114.EXE | Readme | NFS1.2 PLPD.NLM fixes. Originally released 24 July 1992. |
| 3 December 1993 | 1.2B | NFS153.EXE | Readme | This patch is neccessary for NFS 1.2B to run on both NW 4.01 and NW 3.X platforms. If you are currently using NW 4.0 please upgrade to NW 4.01 or above. This patch also fixes a few reported problems in NFSSERV.NLM, FTPSERV.NLM, NFS.NAM and XCONSOLE.NLM. Please read the readme before installing this patch. |
| 19 August 1994 | 1.2C | NFS193.EXE | Readme | An update to NetWare NFS 1.2C containing both fixes and enhancements. Can only be applied to NFS purchased as 1.20C - NOT 1.20B with NFS153 applied. |
| 11 September 1995 | 1.2C | PLPD8.EXE | Readme | This patch includes all bug fixes to date for PLPD.NLM and PLPDCFG.NLM. Not supported for 1.2b or other version previous to 1.2c. |
NFS Gateway is an add-on product that allows a NetWare server to effectively proxy an NFS server via NCP. The NetWare server shares an NFS export on a UNIX host as though it were a local NWFS disk allowing DOS and Windows machines (Macs are not supported) to access the NFS export without an NFS client or any direct access to the UNIX host.
There were two releases of the NFS Gateway product - 1.1 and 1.2. Both appear to support NetWare 3.12 (v1.1 needs a patch) and neither support NetWare 4.0x. As with the NFS product there aren't patches to upgrade from v1.1 to v1.2 - you had to at a minimum pay for a new media kit. So if you're shopping for a copy of the NFS Gateway try to get v1.2.
Without a patch (missing) this product is only compatible with the DOS NETX and VLM clients. No Windows NT, Windows 9x or Client32 for DOS/Windows 3.1. This makes the product of little use today unless you're only running DOS machines and are willing to limit yourself to the VLM client.
I've installed NFS Gateway 1.2 on my NetWare 3.2 server. Screenshots of the process including patching it are available here.
I've installed this product on my NetWare server and run into the following problems which I've not been able to resolve:
The patch referred to by the updated TID 2912064 is nowhere to be found:
Maybe the patch is on a 1998 issue of the Support Connection CD or someone has a copy stashed away on a CD-R or floppy disk. Or maybe the patch is simply lost forever now.
| Date | Version | Notes |
| 12 April 1993 | 1.1 | Initial version |
| April 1994 | 1.2 |
| Date | Version | Download | Readme | Notes |
| 24 September 1993 | 1.1 | GWY160.EXE | Readme | Allows NFS Gateway 1.1 to run on NetWare 3.12 as well as fixing other bugs. |
| 18 May 1994 | 1.1 | GWY194.EXE | Readme | Fixes bugs and allows installations of v1.1 to be upgraded to v1.2 (it does not upgrade a v1.1 install to v1.2) |
| 9 March 1995 | 1.2 | GWY195.EXE | Readme | Accumulated bug fixes for NFS Gateway |
| 16 October 1997 | 1.2 | nfsgw.exe | Supposedly fixes Windows 95 (and probably Client32 for DOS) compatibility problem. Referenced by an October 1997 update to TID 2955261. I've been unable to locate a copy of this patch. |
I'm not a netware expert, don't have any of those fancy novell certifications and have never administred a netware network; I've just played with it at home occasionally since 2004 or so. Email me if you've got any suggestsions or corrections for this page or any extra information you think is worth including here. My address is david at this websites domain name (without the www bit of course).
