Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!mks.com!mks!eric
From: eric@mks.mks.com (Eric Gisin)
Subject: Re: Is pc-nfs useful to anyone?
Sender: eric@mks.com (Eric Gisin)
References: <123@jetson.UUCP> <1991Mar14.051003.6212@amd.com>
In-Reply-To: phil@brahms.amd.com's message of 14 Mar 91 05:10:03 GMT
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: 15 Mar 91 11:27:11
Message-ID: <ERIC.91Mar15112711@mks.mks.com>

In article <1991Mar14.051003.6212@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
.   If you give 100 users a PC-NFS package and one page of instructions,
.   almost certainly at least one of them will give his PC the same
.   name as the server and crash the server. If you do all the installs
.   yourself this is much less likely to happen. (what a bother)

Do you give a typical user an ethernet card or a hard disk and say
"here, install this"? Of course not. Nor do you give them
some TCP/IP-based network software with things like IP addresses,
subnet masks, YP, etc, and expect them to be able to configure it.
Why do people expect all software to be as easy to install as
a simple "insert the disk and run" DOS application?

.   Stupid users. Bad users. Wish they'd leave my nice Sun alone instead
.   of causing trouble. They seem to want to get work done instead of
.   just admiring how wonderful a Sun is.
