Mail Archives: opendos/2001/03/05/22:57:06
On 2001-03-04, Florian Xaver forwarded Rich Wilsonīs question:
>>what net work protocol does dr dos use? ipx spx?
>>under drdos 7.03, can i print to a shared server NOT directly
>>connected to a work station?
Well, not very specific, but letīs try it anyway...
DR-DOS uses whatever DOS network protocol stack you have
loaded from virtually any manufacturer. While the OS has
interfaces such as the redirector API to easy networking, it is
not integral part of the OS as is.
Novell DOS 7, OpenDOS 7.01, and DR-DOS 7.02+ are bundled
with Novellīs Personal NetWare 1.0, a peer-to-peer network
based on Novellīs modular 16-bit ODI/VLM architecture (as it
is also used with the big NetWare 3.12+/4.0+) in contrast to
the older less flexible "monolithic" IPX/NETX drivers.
(Thereīs also an NETX.VLM for backward compatibility.)
However, AFAIK all NetWare products until "recently" use IPX,
only NetWare/IP and NetWare 5.0+ have switched to use IP now.
If you want to connect a client to a non-dedicated PNW server,
you must use the 16-bit ODI/VLM drivers on the client (because
only the 16-bit drivers support the PNW protocol, unfortunately).
If your shared server is a dedicated NetWare server, you can still
use the 16-bit drivers (with NDS or BIND protocols loaded
depending on your NetWare version), but it is usually recommendable
that you pick up Novellīs 32-bit ODI/NIOS client (which uses .NLMs
also on the client), because it uses far less DOS memory (of course,
this requires the client to be a 386+).
You can share printers with PNW as well as with NetWare. You need
to create print queues on the server (where the printers are physically
connected), and can then directly print into these queue from the
applications on the client (if they support printing in queues), or you can
capture ports LPT1:..LPT3: and redirect everything that is send to these
devices into the networking queues.
If your server is not a Novell server, you must load the corresponding
client software on the workstations, and it depends on this networking
software, if remote printing is supported (I would assume almost any
networking software supports it).
I hope this answers your question.
Matthias
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