darryl@nexus.YorkU.CA (Darryl Gamble) (01/22/91)
HI! I am very new to this newsgroup, and will probably be asking old questions. Hopefully someone will have the patience to reply to this posting. I have three PC's (AT and XT's) that I wish to connect together using ethernet cards (probably 3COM thin ethernet). I am looking for drive and file sharing on one or all machines (preferrably transparent) and possibly printer sharing. There has been much discussion in this news group (recently anyway) involving LanSmart, LanTastic, PC-NFS, PC/IP, etc. My question is what inexpensive (the cheaper the better) solution exists and where would I look for the sources (ftp sites prefered)? Also which system will give me the best "response" ? If anyone already has set up a similar implementation, I would love to hear your solutions (and possible nightmares along the way). Please e-mail your responses to me. As always I will post a summary of e-mail responses if interest exists. Thanks in advance Frank Pikelner York University Support Staff frank@cs.yorku.ca