Mail Archives: opendos/2004/09/02/14:39:45
Clould you please give more information about this VLM? What is it,
where to find...
thanks,
Alain
Enrique Baraibar escreveu:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 06:53:22 -0700 (PDT)
> Martin C <forolinux AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>
>
>>Hello.
>>
>>snip
>>
>>
>>The other option is to run mars-nwe in the server.
>>Have anyone tried it in production? My program does
>>run with it, but I need it to be reliable... And I
>>haven't test it with many client neither...
>>
>>Thank you in advance!
>>
>>Mart_n.
>>
>
>
> A customer of mine (I am a CPA) has gone from NetWare 4.11 to Linux +
> Mars-nwe.
> The clients (about 12) run either DrDOS + VLM or Linux + DOSemu + DrDOS +
> VLM.
> It is now 8 months since the switch and they have never looked back.
> Only caveat is that IPX interface must be created with IPXtools and not
> repeat not with mars-nwe itself. It seems that if you use IPXtools the bug
> which makes DOSemu clients lose idle connections after about 10 min.
> vanishes
> without trace.
>
> IMHO, if you use DOS clients, you must go ncp. Micro$oft DOS client's
> absurd memory requirement is about 200k. Compare this with the 5k of
> Novell's DOS Client32 2.71 and, for me at least, there is no more time to
> lose arguing.
>
> Hth.
>
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