I3160901@DBSTU1.BITNET (Klaus Hahn) (09/29/90)
Ok, i`m brandnew to this area and i know that questions like mine produce a lot of laughter in the gurus` labs, but i guess i ask you nevertheless: I have to plan / install a small LAN (a 80386 communication server as a gateway to an SNA-IBM host and ca. 20 80386-based MS-DOS work- stations). For the moment i think that Microsoft`s LAN Manager will do (or should i prefer some kind of UNIX, although nobody of our guys wants to work on the UNIX machine directly?) and that we could connect the machines via ethernet with WD8003E cards. In the near future, the whole LAN should be connected to a campus-wide ethernet and so every workstation has to be able to use TCP/IP and NFS to communicate with the rest of the gang, besides being able to use the server into the host. My simple question is: anything wrong with that ? Any hints ? What did i forget ? Thanx for taking care, Klaus. Klaus Hahn Dept. of Psychology University of Braunschweig Spielmannstr. 19 D-3300 Braunschweig, West-Germany