drharvey@chinet.chi.il.us (Douglas Harvey) (07/27/90)
Hello, I've got several applications in mind that would work great if I could connect two OS/2 workstations across our Token Ring LAN. We are running OS/2 EE v1.2 on IBM PS/2 70's with 120MB and 10MB+ RAM. Also, our LAN software is IBM LAN Server v1.2. What I want to do: Be able to connect any two workstations together so they can "talk", whatever that might mean (up to the application). What I've tried: Experimented with named pipes, but it doesn't look like I can connect (from a requester) to a named pipe that resides on another requester. The named pipe has to be on a server. I think APPC would do the job, but APPC imposed quite a bit of overhead, both in terms of running it, and coding the application. ----- Any suggestions on what else to try? I'm open to any and all suggestions and I can summarize any responses I get to this group. On another topic, how are most of you accessing the Usenet? I'm planning on porting the news/UUCP/rn type software to OS/2 and run the whole thing under OS/2. Has anyone done or started such an effort? Also, I've already written a CRON program for OS/2 that work quite well, if anyone is interested. Thanks in advance for any help, Doug Harvey -- Hewitt Associates 100 Half Day Road Lincolnshire, IL 60069 (708) 295-5000
alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS) (07/31/90)
What you have described, using named pipes, is a feature of Microsoft Lan Manager 2.0 called Peer Services. This is missing from IBM Lan Server 1.2 but IBM have committed that a future version of their product will include this technology. For now you should buy a copy of Lan Manager 2.0 from Microsoft, or another LM 2.0 vendor. If you wish to use the raw netbios interface, this is available today in IBMs 1.2 Lan Server. You can use this interface to talk between workstations - it is more complex than using named pipes and doesnt have any security for re-connect features, but you can do the job today! Alistair Banks OS/2 Group Microsoft