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From: ANDREWES.CNT@smtpserv.cnt.com (Esh, Andrew)
To: winsock@SunSITE.Unc.EDU (David A Wolfe)
Subject: Re: Reccomend wfw?
Date: Thu, 12 May 94 08:59
>Every time I go to a MS dog and pony show, from which I just returned, I
get
>the impulse to install the WFW add-on.
>I seen much bandwidth on the subject here. Thh ??? is, is there a faq?
>I have winsock 10b. eudoa, winqvt, trumpet bewsreader, wingopher, cello
and
>mosaic, and Novell 3.11 fairly stable. I would hate to screw things up.
>Is there a consensus?
>Thanks for relplies in advance..
>David
I have WFW 3.11 working with the April beta of MS TCP/IP. I used to have
LAN Workplace running my Winsock stack, but when I went to WFW, LAN
workplace became an unmanageable mess. I have since added Frontier's
SuperTCP/NFS to the picture, which went fairly smoothly, and added a lot
of features. It has replaced MS TCP/IP, and all my Winsock apps are happy
with it.
My advice: If you are not on a LAN, don't do it. I have only two reasons
for WFW: I sometimes use a CD-ROM drive in another person's machine, and
I used to use MS TCP/IP. The Remote Access Server (RAS) is nice, but only
gets you drive mappings and printers. No routing, no remote control, and
no mapping of LAN drives (only physical ones). I have since gone back to
Remote Control apps like PCAnywhere and Reachout. This way I can run my
work PC from home, and run telnet and FTP to the net.
Seeing that you are on a net, I suggest that the only reason you would
want WFW is to share or use drives or printers on other machines running
WFW.
Andrew Esh
andrew_esh@cnt.com