Mail Archives: opendos/1997/12/05/22:13:59
Win95 is not good for a server as it is only 16bit/32bit. It is slow using
any protocol.
However Win95 is fast enough for a small 3 computer network, any more you
will need NT 3.51 at least.
It is much easier though to use Win95 as a server for Win95 than for any
other OS.
Wayne
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From: Mr M S Aitchison <physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Friday, December 05, 1997 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: Networking Ninny solicits help
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>I think it was possible to set Win95 up for "File and printer sharing
>for Netware networks" then use the personal netware on the OpenDOS side
>simply as a (non-personal) netware client. Unfortunately I can't check
>this at the moment because W95 doesn't let me have netware serving
>running while the PC I can play with is sharing via the Microsoft
>network standard (and I can't turn that off at the moment).
>
>Has somebody tried this?
>
>And, while I know that the OpenDOS side can do diskless booting
>(assuming the correct ROM in the network card), I'm not sure if Win95
>can be a suitable server. Again, somebody might be able to tell us for
>sure.
>
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