Subject: Re: Huh?What?Who?Girls?
From: Andrew Stodden
Date: 11/8/1995, 10:59 PM
To: fanfic@andrew.cais.com

On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, White Wolf wrote:

On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, John T. Dillworth III wrote:

Dark Shadow,
You're actually wrong, in one sense of the word.  Win95 rules alright - in
Hell!  After having installed thirty odd copies of it for clients, I KNOW
where it rules now!!!  And so do my clients - over 3/4 of them have had me
take it off their systems, and now they've gone back to their original
environments.  It's really fun on a Novell network!

Well, here I speak with the voice of experience.  A mixed Linux/Win95 
network works just fine.  Let Linux do all the hard stuff like routing, 
and Win95 can muddle along without doing too much damage.

Actually, it works really well at this, because if you bind win95 to 
tcp/ip all sorts of new stuff comes up, like peer-to-peer workgroups 
across dial-up slip accounts.

(I'd never mix 95 and novell, that's like asking for torture.)

This is a bad idea, but having done it, the solution is really easy. 
First, tell win95 you are running a novell network, second, turn off any 
binding.. don't expect to run a peer-to-peer network across a novell 
network. 

It should be noted here that, if you are starting from scratch, with some 
ne2000 or PCI PnP network cards, that win95 is beyond easy to setup, 
especialy if one of the machines is running winNT (3.51 NSb2). I tried 
this, and it was only a matter of deciding which machine would store the 
mailbox. (the winNT one.. what else?)

A copy of NWLite's packet drivers provides dos game (DOOM etc) support 
under a command prompt boot.

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Andrew Stodden  ( bg715@freenet.carleton.ca )
"Infinity happens twice a day, and you eat the impossible for breakfast!"
Me, trying to convince my friend to help with a project.
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