jimx@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Harris) (09/07/88)
As the subject line perhaps says, has anyone found a way to run Xenix on a 6386 WGS, and have it make NetBIOS calls through a 3COM Etherlink Plus card? Or, has anyone ever been able to get DOS PCs and Xenix PCs to talk together peer-to-peer over Ethernet? The application I am working with requires the sending of short messages between peers, currently done through a NetBIOS sesion (neither datagrams nor file-sharing will work for this application). A typical message is ~64 bytes. One machine on the LAN must run either Xenix or a version of the UNIX(R) system, and the others DOS. Right now we have a 3COM network up, but I'm willing to scrap it if we get our UNIX box to talk to the DOS ones another way. If you have any ideas, please email them to me, and I will post a summary of any significant responses. Thanks in advance, Jim Harris ihlpa!jimx (my opinions are my own...)