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- From: dflint@unlv.edu (Michael Evans)
- Subject: LANtastic TCP/IP, XENIX (EXELAN) and OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.205300.17134@unlv.edu>
- Sender: news@unlv.edu (News User)
- Organization: UNLV
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 20:53:00 GMT
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- The company I work for currently has the following set up:
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- Five Windows machines which are being used for desktop
- publishing. They are networked to a XENIX machine using a software
- package called PCInterface (Which uses TCP/IP to allow MS-DOS machines
- to use a UNIX machine as a file server, as well as using the XENIX
- machine's printers). The XENIX machine is also used for accounting
- software.
-
- What I would like to know is:
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- Can I put a OS/2 machine on this network which would be able
- to act as a server for the Windows machines if something happened to
- the xenix machine? Since PCInterface is designed specifically to work
- with a unix machine, I would probably have to replace it with LANtasic
- TCP/IP. Would this work?
- Basically, my main question is: Does any one have experience
- with getting OS/2, LANtastic (or another TCP/IP program for DOS), and
- XENIX's EXELAN to work togethe, with both the OS/2 machine and the
- XENIX machine being servers?
-
- As you can probably tell, I am new to networks (VERY new :-).
- I would appreciate any help you can give.
-
- Mike Evans -- dflint@unlv.edu
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