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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!EU.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!informatik.uni-bremen.de!gina.zfn.uni-bremen.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-leipzig.de!news1.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux with and DOS based network? Date: 28 May 1996 06:57:22 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4oe84i$3hd@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4od8dt$aq8@murphy2.servtech.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20225 comp.os.linux.networking:39935 housley@pr-comm.com (James Housley) wrote: > I have an existing network of computers running Lantastic 6.0. > Will either of FreeBSD or Linux allow me to do this? What software > might be needed? Dunno what exactly Lantastic might be. (Pardon my ignorance, i haven't been working with DOS for years now.) The only way i could think about is to setup Samba on your Unix machine, and use a DOS client that runs SMB over IP. (Most likely this is not what Lantastic does, and the unfortunate side-effect is that the LAN drivers will eat up memory.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)