Named pipes are used to communicate between software components. That would imply that there is some software loaded on the server which the DB application is talking to. Since we are not running NT on the filer, there is no way to do that.

What you need to find out is if the DB supports running with the files on a remote drive, either using a mapped drive letter or UNC names. Many DB's (for example Oracle), do support that mode and can thus use the filer as back-end storage.

Mark Muhlestein -- mmm@netapp.com

-----Original Message----- From: Brian Shamblin [mailto:shamblin.brian@Mayo.EDU] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 6:40 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Named Pipes?

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.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any plans to add this support to ONTAP?

Thanks in advance.

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