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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!n3ott.istar!ott.istar!istar.net!winternet.com!visi.com!news From: Guy Gustavson <bigfoot@visi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux with and DOS based network? Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 13:11:15 -0500 Organization: The Stomping Grounds Lines: 31 Message-ID: <31AB41C3.5F53@visi.com> References: <4od8dt$aq8@murphy2.servtech.com> <4oe84i$3hd@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192-11.dynamic.visi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20232 comp.os.linux.networking:39946 J Wunsch wrote: > > housley@pr-comm.com (James Housley) wrote: > > > I have an existing network of computers running Lantastic 6.0. > > > Will either of FreeBSD or Linux allow me to do this? What software > > might be needed? > > Dunno what exactly Lantastic might be. (Pardon my ignorance, i > haven't been working with DOS for years now.) > Lantasti is a propritory net protocol run over netbios. It's small, fast, and peer to peer. I like it a lot, but..... > The only way i could think about is to setup Samba on your Unix > machine, and use a DOS client that runs SMB over IP. (Most likely > this is not what Lantastic does, and the unfortunate side-effect is > that the LAN drivers will eat up memory.) > Samba's not going to be able to talk it. Basicly you're toast unless you talk to artisoft (Lantastic's manufactour) and see if they have a gateway product. They just might, btw, they have a lot of gateway software that they don't commonly advertise. -- "It's not my god damned planet, understand monkey boy! - B. Bonzai" HTTP://WWW.STOMPED.COM- The dedicated "Quake" web & ftp site.