On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Brian Shamblin wrote:
We are trying to move our database files (not the database, just the data) from an NT server to our filer. The database application, DOCS Open from PC DOCS, insists on using Named Pipes to access the files (we're telling the application that they reside on NTFS). It appears that the filer has no support for this type of access method.
As I understand it named pipes are simply placeholders for actual pipes. The actual pipes are not created until two programs agree on opening the pipe one for writing and one for reading. I know for a fact that placing named pipes on a NetApp using NFS works fine. Most likely (as far as I am aware with the systems I've worked on) you will not be able to write to a pipe on one system and read it out on another, or mount the filestystem in two places and write into one place and read from another, but if you mount a netapp on foo under /bar create a named pipe called alice and then use it it will work. I don't know how named pipes on NTFS work so I can't vouch for the same, but I think it should.
Has anyone else encountered this problem?
Well, nothing is stoping us from using named pipes via NFS. However, I don't even know where to begin trying to create them under Windblowz.
Tom