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- From: rolfe@ldp.com (Rolfe Tessem)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 and an AppleTalk Network
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.143043.15173@ldp.com>
- Sender: rolfe@ldp.com (Rolfe Tessem)
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- Organization: Lucky Duck Productions
- References: <daniel-260193102440@129.236.30.215>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:30:43 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <daniel-260193102440@129.236.30.215>
- daniel@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (Dan Quoidbach) writes:
- > We have a mix of Mac's, 286/dos5, and 486/dos5/win3.1 machines on an
- > appletalk network. The 286s and one 486 use Farallon's PhoneNet Card, while
- > one 486 uses a Dayna DL2000 card to connect to the network. All PCs are
- > running Farallon's PhoneNet Talk 2.04, but the upgrades to 3.0 have been
- > ordered for the windows machines. I hear nice things about OS/2, and am
- > getting tired of the problems we keep having with windows, but have been
- > told that, if we run OS/2 on our 486s, we can't use our existing PhoneNet
- > cards or software. Is this true, or can we just set up our 486s with OS/2
- > and live happily ever after? We can't change our network, we'de rather not
- > buy new cards and software for the 486s, so are we stuck using windows?
- > Thanks for the help.
-
- I'd take this in stages. First, try to upgrade your Appletalk/Localtalk
- network to Appletalk/twisted-pair (10Base-T) ethernet. (If the cabling is
- inside walls, I'm pretty sure you can use the same cabling, but, of course,
- it needs to run in a star configuration to a 10-Base-T concentrator.) This
- will require new cards in your Intel-based machines and a 10-Base-T
- concentrator, but not much else.
-
- Then you'll have a lot more flexibility both in what you add to the network
- and how you configure it. Lanserver 3.0 running on OS/2, for example,
- supports Appletalk and Mac clients (with an optional package), and, in
- addition to the usual file-sharing stuff, will allow Macs to print on
- PC-connected printers and vice-versa. TCP/IP is another option, since you can
- easily run the stack on both the Macs and the OS/2 PCs.
-
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