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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Information on networking with drdos
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 15:40:56 -0000
Organization: Jemmett Glover Software Development
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> Couldn't samba be used?
Nope - there's no SMB support in any Novell client (in PNW's case, the
client is a set of VLMs loaded by the VLM manager - the full set includes
BIND.VLM for NetWare 3 specific authentication and other stuff, NDS.VLM for
4+, and PNW.VLM for the NW2 and PNW-specific bits).

> I know you can connect PNW DoS system to a WINDOZE
> server, but you cannot configure the PNW as a server with WINDOZE.
Personal NetWare can be installed as a client with Win95, but not at all
with anything newer.  There is no official support for PNW in Win9x at all,
so it's a suck-it-and-see job.  However, the PNW client cannot access
Windows Networking shares (SMB shares), although Windows does include File
and Print for NetWare Networks which emulates a NetWare 3 server, and so PNW
clients can see those machines.  The Windows emulation isn't recommended by
Novell though, as MS didn't work from any of Novell's NCP documentation and
just watched a wire - it therefore doesn't implement all the calls the
client might use.

> Also you
> can use TCP/IP with PNW. I believe you have to pay for it in binary
version.
The Novell LAN Workplace includes a TCP/IP stack, which is actually pretty
nice.  Have it installed on a lot of machines at one client's site, although
not doing any PNW stuff (the PNW server only communicates over IPX/SPX, at
least in the versions I've seen).

> You may be able to do it buy installing WEBSPYDER and using it's TCP/IP. I
> have not tried that.
I think that uses a packet driver - the copy I downloaded when first
released uses the Novell LSL/MLID stack with a packet emulator.

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)