--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DDP00001 Date: 09/18/96 From: BRUCE LANE Time: 10:45pm \/To: JOHN HALLIDAY (Read 6 times) Subj: Re: Windows NT and NetWare on 386 with 822:45:1609/18/96 John Halliday woke half the neighborhood at 03:12 by yelling at All about Windows NT and NetWare on 386 with 8 meg?... JH> I am going to learn about Netware and Windows NT on my own and was JH> wondering if anyone here can tell me if these products will run on my JH> 386 with 5 or 8 megs? Netware, -maybe- in 8 megs. With NT, you're going to need an absolute minimum of 12 for Workstation (ver. 3.51) and 16 for Server. Speaking from personal experience (I use NT here and at work), I would strongly recommend a minimum of 32 megs for each product. Memory is cheap at the moment, so buy now if you're going to. FYI, Microsoft puts out a self-paced learning kit to train yourself on NT. To use it, however, you need three machines; one running workstation, one running server, and the third running Novell or TCP/IP. ==Bruce ... Ever get the feeling your guardian angel is laughing? --- Blue Wave/RA v2.21 * Origin: No drones allowed... (1:343/272) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DDP00002 Date: 09/18/96 From: JONATHAN HUNTER Time: 05:34pm \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: Network card info required * Crossposted in NOVELL * Crossposted in LAN * Crossposted in OBSOLETE * Crossposted in HARDWARE Hello All! I have just been given an "old" SMC network card, with no info whatsoever apart from a boot disk. The card itself is 16-bit; stamped "APR 23 1993" on the back, and on the big square chip that says "SMC" it says "COM90C66LJ P" and "D9215". It has a single BNC connector, above a row of 8 DIP switches, and below a red "DATA" LED, and a green "LINK" LED. The IPX.COM that comes with it says the following: ============================================================================== = Novell IPX/SPX V2.12 (C) Copyright 1985, 1988 Novell Inc. All Rights Reserved. LAN Option: Standard Microsystems ARCNET/Pure Data V1.00 (880524) Hardware Configuration: IRQ = 2, I/O Base = 2E0h, RAM Buffer at D000:0 ============================================================================== = Am I correct in assuming that this is an ARCNET card, and not very compatible with my existing Ethernet 10-Base2 network? If it is indeed an ARCNET card, can I get drivers for it for Netware 3.11? What sort of cable does it need? (I remember a discussion in a certain echo, with people disagreeing about ARCNET cables... :-) But I also remember, from a while back, people saying that ARCNET would run on "anything", even bell wire..??!!! Advice would be appreciated..! I am likely to be getting some more of these cards soon, you see, and I want to know what I can do with them!! Jonathan ... Anything we learn today may be disproven tomorrow. --- FMail/386 1.02 * Origin: The Ninja BBS - +44 (0)161 283 1098 - <> (2:250/182) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DDP00003 Date: 09/18/96 From: SAMUEL VALENTINE Time: 11:00am \/To: CHRIS STONE (Read 6 times) Subj: Ideas, anyone? CS>Having a real lockup problem since installing a SIIG Pro-VL SCSI card and CS>Pioneer DRM-600 CD-ROM changer. CS>I've tried all the IRQ and I/O settings on the SCSI CS>card till I'm blue in the face - nothing got any better. Have rearranged CS>memory/driver to no avail either. I don't know what else to try. How many VLB slots do you have on the motherboard? Did you try the card in another slot if you have one? I recently had a baffling problem with a Exabyte tape accelerator card that did very bad things until I moved it to a different slot on the motherboard. Then it worked as advertised. Hope you can get it running... --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Sounding Board of LI (516) 661-2409 L.I.N.K. (1:2619/267) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DDP00004 Date: 09/19/96 From: LARRY VAUGHN Time: 03:07pm \/To: BEN BERGERON (Read 6 times) Subj: r -> *** Quoting Ken Murray to Ben Bergeron dated 09-10-96 *** -> > *** Quoting Ben Bergeron from a message to All *** -> > -> > BB> This is off topic ... but what area is this? -> > -> > Local Area Networking Discussions -> -> -> Ko.... sorry.... looked for a sec or two that this WAS NOvell -> Discussion... ... hmmmmm :( ... -> -> -> BTW Can the licence from one copy of Lantastic be combined with the -> licence of another copy of Lantastic to get the Combined total? -> -> -> ie. -> -> One has a need for a 2 user licence in January, come June he / she / -> both?, want to add another two user / connections. Can they buy the -> 2 user licence and combine it like in Novell? ... I was told this -> cannot be done. -> -> --- 6b416e55724565446549 -> * Origin: ------------------------------------------------------ -> (1:246/53.2) I started with the Two user licence and then added single licence addons without any problem at all, The Lantastic worked great except when I started adding to many other devices ie cdrom drives the overhead for the drivers was too much so I have now dumped it in favor of win 95 and NT. Good Luck, Larry --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: PINETOP BBS (In the Heart of the White Mts. of AZ.) (1:3004/3.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DDP00005 Date: 09/20/96 From: DAVE PETRUCCI Time: 02:18am \/To: HANS WAASDORP (Read 6 times) Subj: Re: LBL + 4Dos >i received my copy of LBL, in short : it's everything i hoped it would be. >Needed a workaround to be able to use my X00 communications fossil, but >with help from LBL's author i was able to fix that. Hans, LBL defaults to a System Request Interupt of 14h... which happens to be the same used by the COM port's BIOS routines and FOSSIL drivers... ie.. X00 and BNU. The default SYSREQ can be changed via the NET0000.SYS driver.. ie.. DEVICE=NET0000.SYS #4 "NODE4" C:\L SYSREQ:61h >Sadly one problem remains, LBL (2.0g) can't get along with 4Dos (5.5). >LBL's author is looking into the problem, in the meantime, is there anyone >using LBL in conjunction with 4Dos succesfully ? What sort of problem(s) are you having with it...? Dave P. --- SLMAIL v4.5a (#1079) * Origin: The Rocket Shop BBS -=|Dover,DE|=- 302-674-4839 (1:2600/161) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DDP00006 Date: 09/18/96 From: JIM PALMER Time: 09:17pm \/To: MIKE BILOW (Read 6 times) Subj: RIP/SAP In a message dated 09-18-96 MIKE BILOW wrote to KURT HILL: MB> I can't see why workstations should send SAP frames at all. SAP is the MB> Service Advertising Protocol, and it is only useful to servers which have MB> services to advertise. I have a devil of a time convincing my HP printers not to emit SAP packets, and I don't even run SPX/IPX.... --- * TIMM 1.0.6 * Is just one Broccoli a Broccolus? --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The Privy Ledged BBS, Kearns, Utah (801) 966-6270 (1:311/5.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DDP00007 Date: 09/20/96 From: JOHN HALLIDAY Time: 09:29am \/To: BRUCE LANE (Read 6 times) Subj: Re: Windows NT and NetWare on 386 with 809:29:0009/20/96 Thanks for the reply. I cannot expand past 8 megs with my particular setup, at least not for some time (not a $$ matter). I'll have to stick with tutorials and such and pitter around on the LAN at work. Thanks. JH --- DLG Pro v1.15/PDQMail v2.60 * Origin: The Final Frontier BBS-512-267-9788 - Sci-Fi (1:382/1004) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DDP00008 Date: 09/19/96 From: MARV HUBBARD Time: 11:48pm \/To: MIKE BILOW (Read 6 times) Subj: In house LAN --- Maximus/NT 3.01b1 * Origin: Windows NT P_O_W_E_R_E_D! 33,600bps (1:303/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: DDP00009 Date: 09/19/96 From: MARV HUBBARD Time: 11:49pm \/To: MIKE BILOW (Read 6 times) Subj: In house LAN Hello Mike! Sunday September 15 1996 01:13, Mike Bilow wrote to Marv Hubbard: MB> Marv Hubbard wrote in a message to Excalibur: DP>>> LBL works fine with Windows and it is peer-to-peer.. DB>>> Dave, will it run over/under OS/2? MB>>> No. MH>> Short, Sweet, and not quite true. Been running it here on my MH>> OS/2 machine and on the Satelite Receiver machine to get the MB> Are you using the LAN-connected or serial/parallel-connected verison MB> of LBL? Lan setup, but Serial, or Parrallel work as well just sloooowww.. Tried em all just for grinsies to see if it would work, but the lan setup is a lot faster. MB> Also, you should explain that you are running LBL for *DOS* under MB> OS/2, meaning that it runs in a DOS window. This causes some serious MB> complications. Yes, it is a dos program in a dos window, but there sure as hell are no serious complications, in fact, there are no complications at all with the setup i am running, IE: to get the stuff from the Satelite machine to the OS/2 machine to be tossed.. It just sits there 24 hours a day and behaves itself. You just flat never know that it is there at all. It doesn't care the least that i am moving the files from the Dos machine to an HPFS drive on the OS/2 machine, or i can, if so desired, move anything from any drive on the OS/2 machine to a drive on the dos machine. The only drawback is that all operations have to be done from the keyboard on the Dos machine, but for what i am doing with it, at $75.00, and a couple of cheap etherlink cards, it is perfect... And, YES, i can run programs across the lan just fine with the same rules, IE:, has to be done from the DOS machine. A one way link as it were.. Marv Hubbard ... You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today. --- GoldED/2 3.00.Alpha1 UNREG * Origin: The Enterprise 2 Gig 28.8K OS/2 Warp (1:303/4)