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- From: hancu@crim.ca (Marius Hancu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Connecting Novell networks of 286 to linux/386bsd
- Summary: How to connect Novell networks of 286s to linux/386bsd servers
- Message-ID: <hancu.724508876@clouso>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 12:27:56 GMT
- Sender: news@clouso.crim.ca
- Organization: Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal
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- Hi:
-
- I sent linux to friends of mine in Romania. linux on 386s runs fine,
- thank you, but they have the following difficulty: most of their PCs are
- tied up in Novell Netware networks and those PCs, except for the
- servers, are 286s (which cannot run linux/386bsd).
-
- They would like to have linux/386bsd on the server and have dumb terminal
- windows (for emacs or vi for example) or even X windows on the 286
- slaves. Of course the point is to have access to the rich Unix
- programmming environment available on linux/386bsd.
- I have to mention there are several (not just one) 286s connected to a 386
- server. In Romania, there are hundreds of 286 running just dos/windows,
- and I'd like to change that...
-
- I wonder if any of you has any experience in this area? I would
- appreciate learning first of all about public domain tools, but if that
- is not possible,...
-
- I'd like to mention that Philip Copeland (Sys Admin)
- <p_copela@csd.uwe-bristol.ac.uk>, the resident linux comm guru, has
- informed me about the existence of a package from CDC, called
-
-
- Vista-eXceed from control data
-
- described as an X Window Server
-
- which allows one to open X windows on the slaves running Windows. But I
- would not mind at all having acces to some other experiences and
- preferably referring to public domain stuff..
-
- The network cards seem to be ne1000/2000, if this makes any difference
- (I intend to suggest them to use the drivers by D. Becker on the
- server).
-
- Please mail or post.
-
- Cheers and thanks,
- --
- Marius Hancu, Parallel Architectures Group
- Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal (CRIM)
- 3744, Jean-Brillant, Bureau 500, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1P1, Canada
- phone: (514) 340-5907, fax: 514-340-5777, email: hancu@crim.ca
-