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Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:23:01 -0600
From: Thomas A Webb <tawebb AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: DRDOS & IP (also IE5 for W3.X)
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IPX is a foreign protocol to windoz, even though it has the ipx protocol
as an option in setup. The issue that defines what you do next is
whether or not you can find a windoz client that will talk to personal
netware. Unless there is something new out there, you're screwed. 

Running lanmanager gets the dos and windoz machines talking, but running
lanmanager on top of personal netware is not something I would want in
my shop; it's likely to be flaky and most of low memory will be hogged
by your netware and lanmanager tsrs. You should be able to accomplish it
all with lanmanager (without personal netware), but it won't be as
pretty. Novell does a beautiful job of packaging administrative tools,
and windoz/smb/lanmanager looks like something you or I might have done
in our spare time :-) If you want to try it, install drdos ->without
networking<- and then install lanmanager, using an ndis driver for your
nic card. Lanmanager has tcp/ip as an option, which you want if you ever
want to talk to the Internet via the network. Make sure your lanmanager
is the 4 disk set, which has all the goodies.

Rich Wilson ix wrote:
> 
> great great answer. the detail that we hate typing manually is incredibly
> helpful.
> my project is based on the needs and pre arranements of others, so linux
> solutions not available at this time.
> 
> i checked outs simtel. great assortment, though nothing indexed under
> networking (sigh). i will keep looking around simtel. thank you.
> 
> again, i just want a win 98 mahcine to read files from a dr dos machie, that
> itself is attached to dr dos and personal network network. if it was a stand
> alone dr dos machine, this might be easier of course. the dos machine needs
> to work as a server and share its files, and perhaps its printer.
> 
> -rich
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