jake@alessia.dei.unipd.it (Luca Polo) (11/13/90)
Hi, netlander. I need (a lot of) information about the Microsoft Windows 3 and (if possible) on Lan Manager, expecially about the internals of the two products and their capability to interact with X-Window and, more in general, with a UNIX environment (i.e: using a diskless PC under Windows 3 and Lan Manager - or NFS - both under MS DOS and UNIX, using the UNIX system as lan server). I will appreciate any kind of information you can send to me. Thank you in advance, L. Polo _____ ___ ___ +-----------------------------------------+ | | | | / | | "Considerate la vostra semenza: | | |---| |-< |-- | fatti non foste, a viver come bruti, | \__| | | | \ |___ | ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza." | Luca Polo @ DEI PADOVA | (Dante - Inf. XXVI, 118 - 120) | _____________________________|_________________________________________| Internet address jake@alessia.dei.unipd.it
cmilono@netcom.UUCP (Carlo Milono) (11/16/90)
In article <7293@alessia.dei.unipd.it> (Luca Polo) writes: >Hi, netlander. >I need (a lot of) information about the Microsoft Windows 3 and (if >possible) on Lan Manager, expecially about the internals of the two >products and their capability to interact with X-Window and, more in >general, with a UNIX environment (i.e: using a diskless PC under >Windows 3 and Lan Manager - or NFS - both under MS DOS and UNIX, using >the UNIX system as lan server). > Microsoft Windows 3.0 has built-in support for LAN Manager...this should come as no surprise, since MS built both of them. AT&T rewrote LAN Man under UNIX and has since licensed that code to NCR, Unisys, Data General, Olivetti, ICL, and others. One nice feature is that AT&T's StarGROUP Software LAN Manager Server (hey, shorten that name, will you?), is that it comes with Kermit, and you can do a 'set port net SERVERNAME' and then connect to the server as, say a VT102. Ah, I can have my DOS and UNIX too! If you were to get an X11 emulator, such as PC Xsite, you could have that software as an Icon on Win3.0, double click and login to your UNIX server, fire up the XClient and off you go! AT&T also sells diskless PC's with LAN Manager/OSI transport boot PROMS. ...and, yes, you can have TCP/IP co-reside and do NFS - all on the same server...as well as support for Apple LocalTalk Macintosh Clients, etc. As you can see, I like the product and am looking forward to working with it. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Carlo Milono: netcom!cmilono@apple.com or apple!netcom!cmilono | |"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, | |that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+