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- From: backstrom@ranger.enet.dec.com (ranger::backstrom)
- Subject: RE: What does LANSESS do?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.045927.23359@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Nov18.085903.5@mits.com.au>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 05:00:14 GMT
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- > alistair@mits.com.au
- > What does LANSESS do?
- >
- > What does LANSESS provide? In the Pathworks for DOS Client Commands
- > Reference, it states that LANSESS enables you to connect to file
- > services. However, this seems to work fine without loading LANSESS.
-
- LANSESS is a component used, if you want to run file and print
- services over the LAST (Local Area Services/Systems Transport)
- protocol (the same disk services, LAD, Local Area Disk uses).
-
- LANSESS provides a minimal NetBIOS API (barely enough to make,
- break file/print service connections) for the Redirector.
-
- In other words, when the Redirector asks for a connection, if
- LANSESS is loaded, it first tries to connect over LAST. If
- the LAST attempt times out, it switches over to DECnet (if
- DECnet is installed).
-
- Do not that due to the minimal NetBIOS support (DECnet has
- full NetBIOS support), LANSESS does interfere with many
- NetBIOS applications (Lotus Notes, CloseUp/LAN, etc.). That
- is, if you plan on using NetBIOS applications, and they do
- not work, try removing LANSESS.
-
- ...petri (petri.backstrom@ljo.mts.dec.com)
- Personal Computing Integration Engineering
- Digital Equipment Corporation
-