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- From: svetzal@wonder.ca (Steve Vetzal)
- Subject: Re: LAN\WAN networking
- Message-ID: <Edda1996Jan31.010604.12920@news.compulink.com>
- Reply-To: svetzal@wonder.ca
- Organization: WCi Information Technology Division
- Date: 31 Jan 96 06:06:04 GMT
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- Keith R. <102476.1454@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
-
- >I have monitored this group for a few weeks now hoping to find
- >some information that would guide me in connecting Amiga computers
- >to the more common american networks. Namely Novell and Windows
- >NT.
-
- Pretty straightforward, but the pieces may be difficult to obtain
- these days. You can try and get a hold of an old package that OXXI
- used to sell (last I heard, it was being sold off) and that's the
- Amiga Client Software for Novell. This was a decent package (we worked
- with it for a while at CBM Canada). An aweful lot of work went into
- duplicating the client abilities of PC workstations on the Amiga, and
- it's really thorough.
-
- The best (and most supported) route would be through TCP/IP and NFS.
- You can pick up DiskShare (or was it NFSware?) or Chameleon32
- (NetManage - www.netmanage.com) to run under NT (last I saw,
- Chameleon32 was about $800 and DiskShare was about $400. I can dig up
- firmer contacts if you really want, or just check out
- comp.os.windows.nt.networking for more details - I was lucky and got a
- response from someone who had just written an article comparing NFS
- server solutions under NT. When I tried both packages, Chameleon was
- the best solution by far. It also came with many other utilities that
- NT doesn't natively support (ie News clients, EMail clients, etc.) and
- didn't give too many hassles when working out permissions issues with
- AmiTCP and AmigaDOS 8^)
-
- >Does anyone have any information on connecting Amigas, with
- >ethernet, to either of the above mentioned types of networks ?
-
- Ethernet cards might be fun to come across these days. Your best bet
- is probably the Ariadne from VillageTronic, which is a very nice board
- IMHO. They even figured out how to run OXXI's ACS software _along_
- with other packages using a SANA2 driver. (ACS doesn't use a SANA2
- driver - it uses a library in your Expansion drawer). Otherwise,
- there's bound to be A2065s and/or Hydra boards kicking around.
-
- >Simple TCP/IP connection is not enough, I need support for some
- >type of file system.
-
- Probably NFS is your only solution, pending availability of OXXI's ACS
- software. Besides, it's the best multiplatform solution I've found,
- and with the huge Internet hoopla it's easy to sell companies on
- TCP/IP networking solutions 8^)
-
- I've done a fair bit with Amiga networking. Out of the Wonder retail
- stores we run Internet services (well, two stores, anyways, but we're
- growing 8^) the sites are linked over the net with ISDN routers, and
- we're primarily using AmigaDOS and NetBSD (though in a pinch I set up
- a BSDI box to run some basic services and buy me some time while I got
- some stuff working under NetBSD) The routers really do all the work
- for the WAN, but it's really cool to tell people our network is 100%
- (okay, 99.5 %...) Amiga. At home, I've got a Novell 3.12 server, and a
- Windows NT 3.51 server, with both my PC and my Amiga connected (though
- I didn't purchase Chameleon32, so I'm back to FTP with my Amiga -
- there's a neat hack, though, which lets you mount an FTP site as a
- filesystem - that also might be worth you checking out. Do a search on
- Aminet for FTP and you'll probably find it)
-
- Steve Vetzal
- WCi - Wonder Computers Inc.
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