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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Problem with 'Error 123' when using LANTastic.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.222252.13005@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Followup-To: comp.os.os2.networking
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <Z9uHVB1w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:22:52 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <Z9uHVB1w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca> frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca writes:
- >Well, after a near-tearful realization that LANTastic couldn't be run
- >normally under OS/2, I then found out I could make a DOS boot image on
- >my hard drive complete with CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT settings!
- >Subsequently, I have gotten the LAN to work (as far as communicating
- >with the other computer) using this feature -- the system did crash
- >rather severely one time complete with "Contact your rep..." message,
- >but I won't worry about that until it happens again.
- >I am having a (hopefully minor) problem, however. When I start up off
- >the boot image, if I try to create a file on any of the hard drives,
- >no problem -- but the very second I install the LAN server, I am no
- >longer able to *write* information on the drives, only read it! Needless
- >to say, this kind of blows the concept of networking out the window.
-
- LANtastic Server will not currently work under OS/2 2.0. Client,
- however, works fine given the caveats in the README.
-
- Artisoft has said they are working on an OS/2 version. I would
- contact them to ask about participating in any beta program.
-
- One option might be to convert over to TCP/IP (I believe Artisoft has
- a straightforward TCP/IP upgrade). Then, on the IBM side, you can use
- IBM's TCP/IP or FTP Software's TCP/IP packages, for example. That
- route is a good one if you ever want to connect to workstations,
- minicomputers, mainframes, Macintoshes, etc. -- it is just about the
- only networking protocol spoken fluently by virtually all systems.
-
- --
- Timothy F. Sipples | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0h, available from
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