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#! rnews 1331 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.primenet.com!usenet From: jbc@primenet.com (Joe Chisolm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hooking FBSD2+ machine to a DOS network Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 06:55:35 GMT Organization: Primenet Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3ttaq5$c5d@dump.primenet.com> References: <3t4cib$64@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip123.phx.primenet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 jkurtz@starbase.neosoft.com (John Kurtz) wrote: >Has anyone successfully connected a FreeBSD 2.x machine to a network of MSDOS >machines and been able to login to the FBSD box from a DOS box? Information >on whether this is possible and, if anyone has done it, recommendable network >cards and system configurations needed would be majorly helpful. >Thanks, >John I have 3 pc's, SCO and FreeBSD all on the same network. PC1 is WFWG 486-66 with a NE2000 close UTP PC2 is my laptop running WFWG with pcmcia network card PC3 is DOS machine using packet drivers SCO box is old 386 with 3c501 10base2 Freebsd is 486 with NE2000 close UTP PC1 and PC2 use WFWG TCP/IP PC3 uses NCSA TCPIP all work fine. Telnet,ftp etc. I have not tried using nfs to access the pc disk yet. Joe Chisolm Email: jbc@primenet.com Phoenix,AZ Voice: 602.582.9515