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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Path: sparky!uunet!weyrich!orville
- From: orville%weyrich@tnet.com (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Subject: Including OS/2 in a small work-group
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.070826.6464@weyrich.UUCP>
- Sender: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Reply-To: tnet.com!weyrich!orville
- Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 07:08:26 GMT
- Lines: 53
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- Hi --
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- I am really trying hard to find a use for OS/2 :-)
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- But I keep coming up with missing pieces to every puzzle I try to solve.
-
- Can anyone help me find the missing pieces?
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- OS/2 has a great HPFS that would make it well suited for a usenet news
- server (for example). :-)
-
- For about $300/node I can set up TCP/IP and NFS to share files between
- OS/2 and MS-DOS/Windows platforms :-(
-
- If I leave OS/2 out of the picture, I can use Novell NetWare Lite to get
- the same functionality as TCP/IP and NFS in a small local area net, for
- only about $70/node. :-)
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- But then I am stuck with a FAT file system. :-(
-
- What I really want is Novell NetWare Lite for OS/2 or else a much cheaper
- source for TCP/IP and NFS for DOS/Windows [I want DOS nodes to be able to
- "publish" network volumes as well as "mount" them.]
-
- Does anyone have any idea of a way that I can get this functionality at a
- reasonable cost?
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- I don't consider Novell Regular 2.xx or 3.xx to be reasonable cost --
- what I want is a simple inexpensive peer-to-peer network that 8086
- and 80286 processor nodes can participate in.
-
- Or have the vendors involved (Novell, IBM, etc.) conspired to suppress
- the functionality that I want in order to enhance sales of more expensive
- solutions [that may be worth it if I needed their full functionality,
- which I don't]? :-(
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- Someone on the net suggested that I get a patch for OS/2 that would run
- NWLITE in a DOS box, but I can't find the file "netwlsrv.zoo" on the
- FTP server that I was told to look on [hobbes] -- I think that they just
- reorganized their directory structure. Anyone know where to get this
- patch?
-
-
- orville
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