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- Subject: Wish to interconnect two PCs via LAN - questions!
- Message-ID: <9211171225.aa10287@louie.udel.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:23:00 GMT
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- Hello again to all you PCIP readers.
-
- A few weeks ago I asked whether anyone knew of a freely available MS-DOS
- NFS server package. Many people suggested the SOSS package at
- hilbert.wharton.upenn.edu.
-
- Thank you to all those folks who responded.
-
- However, I have since learned that I didn't really ask the question that
- I need to get answered :-(. So once again I am appealing to the
- collective wisdom of the Net for the answers to a few more questions.
-
- First, some background. I have 2 PC clones at home. One is a
- 1988-vintage 286/16 (AT clone) with a 40M HD. The other is a multimedia
- 486/33 with a Sound Blaster Pro card, a CD-ROM drive, a 105M HD, & Win
- 3.1. I have purchased two SMC (formerly Western Digital) 8003EP
- Ethernet cards and thin-net cabling, terminators, etc. I have installed
- the cards and gotten them to send diagnostic messages to one another.
-
-
- 1. The first thing I wish to do is enable hard-drive sharing between
- systems. What would be the best way to do this using freely available
- software? My original concept was to use the older machine as a
- dedicated NFS server, but that is pointless unless an NFS client is
- available (which I have heard is NOT the case). Ideally I would like to
- have both machines be able to access each other's hard drives, but I
- doubt that I could do that under MS-DOS (even 5.0).
-
- 2. Which freely available networking packages should I use? I have
- heard about PC/IP, CUTCP, NCSA, KA9Q, and a host of applications, but I
- do not know which one would be best. Any responses would be
- appreciated.
-
- 3. What other networking applications would be cool, froody, and hoopy
- to experiment/play with? I anticipate I will mess around with most of
- the standard TCP/IP apps (FTP, Telnet, the r-series, etc), but I will
- always be interested in doing other cool things on my "house LAN."
-
-
-
- Once again, please E-mail your responses to me and I will summarize and
- post. Thanks in advance!
-
-
- Chris Shutters Preferred --> shutters_wc@toto.laafb.af.mil
- Alternates --> shutterswc@space.laafb.af.mil, Shutters@dockmaster.ncsc.mil
- All opinions are my own - nobody else likes them!
- Two bits, four bits, six bits, a buck; come on cheerleaders, give us a cheer!
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