Using the network

Accessing shared files

Although the networking commands telnet, ftp, and rcmd 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 SCO OpenServer Desktop or Enterprise System provides filesharing capabilities between other SCO OpenServer systems, via the Network File System (NFS), as well as between SCO OpenServer systems and other operating systems. These capabilities are provided by:

LAN Manager Client, to access files served by systems running LAN Manager.
SCO Gateway for NetWare, to access files served by Novell NetWare servers.
PC-Interface, to provide filesharing capabilities to DOS, OS/2, or Windows personal computers.

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.