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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Subject: Re: LAN\WAN networking
- References: <4e5lc7$5vj$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com> <Edda1996Jan31.010604.12920@news.compulink.com>
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- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 96 17:52:10 EDT
- Organization: Only if you insist...
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- In article <Edda1996Jan31.010604.12920@news.compulink.com> svetzal@wonder.ca (Steve Vetzal) writes:
- > 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.
-
- Hi Steve! Long time no talk. :)
-
- Oxxi still sells ACS, and it works with NetWare 2.15/2.20/3.11/3.12
- and 4.1 (it doesn't work with 4.0 or 4.01 due to bugs in Novell's
- code for bindery emulation!).
-
- > 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.
-
- The driver that VillageTronic co-wrote for ACS "belongs" to Oxxi. It
- will likely appear for other cards.
-
- That special driver is equivalent to a PC "shim". An interesting concept
- on an Amiga. :)
- --
- // Michael B. Smith
- \X/ mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us
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