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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux with and DOS based network?
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 17:58:48 -0700
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Koen J. Mulders wrote:
] I do and I've had a hell of a time getting to work with
] Linux. Lantastic has theoreticly two possibilties to connect
] to Linux. As of version 5 Lantastic has the possibility to
] connect to an SMB server over Netbeui, Linux doesn't (yet)
] support. It should be possible to let Lantastic talk SMB
] over TCP/IP, but after a quite a few frustrating attempts
] (with help from Artisoft) to set up PROTOCOL.INI, I gave up.
Look at the "Connecting to an LM/X server" documentation
near the very end of the manual. You need to download
two files from microsoft, but you can do it.
] The seccond possibility is to let lantastic talk ncp over
] ipx, which Linux should support with lwared. I did get it
] working but it wasn't stable. I couldn't detect which side
] was at fault, but it wasn't stable and that was enough to
] give this up as well.
It was the lwared side (unless it implemented all of the
over 475 NCP packet types supported by NetWare 3.x -- forget
about NetWare 4.x).
] So, I kicked out lantastic and installed WfW3.11 + TCP/IP
] and I'm quite happy since. I also tried Dos based MS-Client
] from MS, but it left too little memory. WfW works quite good,
] even though all our programms are dos based. Using TCP/IP
] also introduced a knew possibility: with the Xservers from
] starnet(?) one can turn a Dos/Windows3.x/95/NT machine into
] a Xterminal.
Third possibility: license the UNIX AILANBIO stack from
Artisoft (the people who make Lantastic).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.