NFS -- what's required?

My office is considering the use of NFS as a productivity enhancer. Currently we use rlogin to allow users to connect to services we have only on one machine or the other. We have three machines, all running SCO Unix. We hope to use NFS so that users can do it all from one menu on one machine. Is this possible? Below are is a list of some specific questions. 1. Can we run applications (a C program, shell scripts, perl scripts, etc) that are on the remote computer? What kind of performance can be expected? 2. What are the software requirements to get NFS to work? We have TCP/IP, but not ODT. 3. How well does Informix work with NFS? Do we need to get I-Net or some such, or can we just mount the remote file system and pretend it is local? 4. How well does WordPerfect work with NFS? 5. How difficult to administer is NFS? 5. Are there any special factors I should consider? On the whole, what is your opinion of NFS? I will be contacting SCO with similar questions, but I wanted the input of people who have actually been using NFS and who do not have an economic stake in my decision. Please respond via email and I will summarize in a week or so. -- Jim Holthaus email: james-holthaus@uiowa.edu phone: 319/335-3138 Programmer-Analyst, Univ of Iowa, Iowa Memorial Union Info Systems It works better if you plug it in.