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- Compatibility Statement
- R2LAN is compatible with LANtastic NOS v4.xx.
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- Product Overview
- R2LAN provides full-featured remote control services for NetBIOS or IPX LANs.
- It can also be used in conjunction with Remote2, also from DCA/Crosstalk, in
- order to access workstations on a LAN from a separate site, although this
- specific configuration has not been tested by Artisoft. Both text and graphics
- mode screens can be viewed across the LAN, but remote mouse control is not
- supported. The host program supports only one viewer, so group
- viewing/broadcasting is not possible, except through daisy chaining.
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- Test Equipment Configuration
- The following machines were used for R2LAN testing. All machines have VGA
- adapters installed and use Artisoft AE-2 NICs. Testing was completed using
- LANtastic NOS v4.0 with AILANBIO.EXE and AE2.EXE v2.03. Machines running
- as LANtastic peer servers are designated by (S).
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- - CompuAdd 333: 386DX/33, DOS 5.0 (S)
- - Altima 2: 286/16 portable, LCD VGA, DOS 4.01
- - Northgate 386: 386DX/20, DOS 5.0 (S)
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- Product Installation Notes
- An installation routine is provided and is fairly simple and self explanatory.
- It copies the program and data files to the desired hard disk directory and sets
- up initial user and host names.
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- Product Execution Notes
- The R2LAN host requires 70K of RAM overhead, but may be loaded into upper
- memory with DOS 5.0, if enough is available. Once loaded, the host will only
- accept connections from guests who it has on list of authorized users, which
- requires some overhead during setup time if there are many users who will
- access the host. User passwords can also be set, providing further security.
- The R2LAN manager program (R2LMGR.EXE) is provided for defining new user
- accounts and customizing the host setup parameters after installation. The
- guest program, R2LCALL.EXE, runs as a DOS application or a 155K TSR. It
- supports both text and graphics viewing, but updates of VGA graphics images is
- much slower than other products in this class. Many other services are also
- provided by the guest program, including file transfer, host screen snapshots,
- host keyboard enable/disable, and host video enable/disable.
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- Compatibility Notes
- No incompatibilities with LANtastic NOS were discovered, however, when a
- Windows 3.0 screen is viewed by R2LCALL the host's screen becomes
- corrupted as the mouse is moved around. This does not seem to affect the
- operation of Windows or Windows applications, but is a somewhat troublesome
- side effect of R2LAN.
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- Vendor Information
- DCA/Crosstalk Communications
- 1000 Holcomb Woods Parkway
- Roswell, Georgia 30076-2575
- 404/998-3998
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