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- From: pmh2962@tamsun.tamu.edu (Pat Hayes)
- Subject: Q: Wish to interconnect two PCs via LAN. A: WFW (?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.034459.22975@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Organization: Meteorology, TAMU, CS, TX
- References: <9211171225.aa10287@louie.udel.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:44:59 GMT
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- >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
- >
- >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
-
- ... WFW does this.
-
- >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).
-
- ... WFW and DOS 5 do this.
-
- >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.
-
- ... me neither. WFW ain't free --- $69, I think.
-
- >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."
-
- ... don't know for sure about this, but I think WFW can run on 286's.
-
- >Chris Shutters Preferred --> shutters_wc@toto.laafb.af.mil
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