> Does anyone out there have experience with LFS (LAN File
> Services?)

Well, I do, and Dan Martin at UArkansas is also using
it fairly heavily. Don't ya remember -- we gave talks on it at
the MSU Workshop...8-).

>  Is it
> easy to set up and administer?

For TCP access only, it's pretty straightforward, and it permits
NFS for most hosts that's a lot nicer (IMHO) than the VMNFS NFS
server that's in the TCPIP package. It's pretty reliable.

> Does it have particular hardware
> requirements, such as its own ports on the 3172?

For TCP and NFS service only, no, no special hardware. If you
want to do LAN Manger or Netware stuff, you end up dealing with a
channel-attacted PC.