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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sharing resources by IPX...
Date: 23 Feb 1997 21:21:11 GMT
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cooker@ci.ua.pt (Fernando Cozinheiro) wrote:

> FreeBSD-2.0  introduced some IPX  facilities,  and I think them could be
> explored in order to permit the access some resources  with PCs systems.
> Is it true?  Could  we  share  resources  (directories  / file  systems)
> located  by FreeBSD  2.2  systems,  using IPX?  If so, what do I need to
> enable this?

FreeBSD itself can only do IPX routing.  However, there's a commercial
product that makes it act as a Novell client.  See
http://www.freebsd.org, somewhere under `commercial'.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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