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                                                        The Florida SunFlash
          SPARCstations and Novell Netware Integration
   
SunFLASH Vol 30 #21					           June 1991 
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This is from a Sun internal email message. It is based upon a press release
from Novell. Please contact Novell for further details, pricing
availablility etc. -johnj
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SPARCstations can now plug and play with Netware, thanks to Novell.
With the newest version of Novell's Netware, Netware 3.11, Sun's
SPARCstations can be transparently integrated into a Netware
environment.  No additional software or hardware is required on the
SPARCstation

Integration of SPARCstations into Netware environments is made possible
by two new products from Novell - Netware 3.11 and Netware NFS 1.0.
Netware 3.11, as Netware 386 is now called, replaces earlier versions
of Advanced Netware, System Fault Tolerance Netware, Entry Level
Solution I and Entry Level Solution II.  Netware 3.11 includes full
support for DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows, and Macintosh and TCP/IP
clients.  Netware 3.11 has a complete implementation of TCP/IP built
into its core.  The built in TCP/IP enables a Netware 3.11 server to
communicate with TCP/IP hosts and clients, and provide standard IP
routing among Ethernet, token-ring and Arcnet LAN segments.

Netware NFS is one of several Netware Loadable Modules (NLMs) available
with Netware 3.11.  Netware NFS is Novell's implementation of Network
File Systems (NFS).  Netware NFS is implemented as a service that runs
on the TCP/IP protocol stack.  This enables NFS clients, i.e.
SPARCstations, to view the Netware file system and access Netware print
queues from their native environments.

For example, a SPARCstation attaches to a Netware server through the
Unix "mount" command and sees the Netware file system as an extension
of the distributed Unix file systems.  Access to the Netware print
queues is through the Unix "lpr" command.  The SPARCstation user can
transfer files to and from the Netware server via the file transfer
protocol (ftp).  Thus,  Netware NFS allows SPARCstations to be "TCP/IP
clients"  on a Netware LAN while continuing to provide full distributed
networking capabilities to other workstations.

A new version  of Novell's Lan WorkPlace for DOS (Version 4.0) provides
Netware users with concurrent access to SPARCstation resources via a
TCP/IP protocol stack that has a DOS and Windows implementation of FTP
and Telent.  Note:  Sun's own PC-NFS satisfies this requirement.

In summary, Novell has now provided Netware resources and services to
platforms other than DOS.  In addition to DOS, Netware 3.11 provides
client support for OS/2, Windows, Unix and Macintosh.

For more information, contact 
	Novell Inc., 122 East 1700 South
	Provo, Utah 84606
	(801) 429-5900.

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