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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!bofh.dot!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!hermes.fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: kmulders@fwi.uva.nl (Koen J. Mulders) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux with and DOS based network? Date: 29 May 1996 00:24:10 +0200 Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam Lines: 34 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ofuea$6la@gene.fwi.uva.nl> References: <4od8dt$aq8@murphy2.servtech.com> <4oe84i$3hd@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: gene.fwi.uva.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20255 comp.os.linux.networking:39987 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >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.) I do and I've had a hell of a time getting to work with Linux. Lantastic has theoreticly two possibilties to connect to Linux. As of version 5 Lantastic has the possibility to connect to an SMB server over Netbeui, Linux doesn't (yet) support. It should be possible to let Lantastic talk SMB over TCP/IP, but after a quite a few frustrating attempts (with help from Artisoft) to set up PROTOCOL.INI, I gave up. The seccond possibility is to let lantastic talk ncp over ipx, which Linux should support with lwared. I did get it working but it wasn't stable. I couldn't detect which side was at fault, but it wasn't stable and that was enough to give this up as well. So, I kicked out lantastic and installed WfW3.11 + TCP/IP and I'm quite happy since. I also tried Dos based MS-Client from MS, but it left too little memory. WfW works quite good, even though all our programms are dos based. Using TCP/IP also introduced a knew possibility: with the Xservers from starnet(?) one can turn a Dos/Windows3.x/95/NT machine into a Xterminal. -- Koen Mulders kmulders@fwi.uva.nl