[comp.windows.ms.programmer] Installing Windows in a net - a solution

ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg) (04/24/91)

  From: jlamb@npd.Novell.COM (Jason "Nematode" Lamb)
  Date: 18 Apr 91 01:12:33 GMT

  Novell publishes NetWare Application Notes which cover System 
  Administration type stuff on a variety of subjects. These Application Notes
  are published monthly and are available from Novell for 5.00 US (10.00 
  International) for the reprints, and for 50.00 US (100.00 International) for a
  years subscription. You can order these by calling 1-800-UPDATE1.

  In the January 1991 issue I wrote an Application Note entitled NetWare and 
  Microsoft Windows Integration and it covers most current issues (including
  most of what you outlined) regarding this subject.

I'm looking for the answer(s) to a slightly different problem: writing
network applications for Windows.  Our application (an object-oriented
database) has several processes on the "client" host, and several processes
on the "server" host, which must talk to each other.  On Unix systems we
use the "socket" facilities.  We have the NetWare 3.11 20-user kit promoted
by your developer program, but I'm still not sure what we need to write
Windows apps that use NetWare services.  Any help you can provide would be
most appreciated.

PS. I'm posting rather than mailing because I think this topic is of general
interest, and because mail to a variety of permutations of your network
address failed.

jlamb@npd.Novell.COM (Jason "Nematode" Lamb) (04/24/91)

In article <1991Apr23.172611.8891@odi.com> ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg) writes:
>
>I'm looking for the answer(s) to a slightly different problem: writing
>network applications for Windows.  Our application (an object-oriented
>database) has several processes on the "client" host, and several processes
>on the "server" host, which must talk to each other.  On Unix systems we
>use the "socket" facilities.  We have the NetWare 3.11 20-user kit promoted
>by your developer program, but I'm still not sure what we need to write
>Windows apps that use NetWare services.  Any help you can provide would be
>most appreciated.
>
>PS. I'm posting rather than mailing because I think this topic is of general
>interest, and because mail to a variety of permutations of your network
>address failed.

The best start for getting this information would be to contact both Novell
developer's relations (for the server part of your questions) and Microsoft
developer's group (for the client end). If you already have some developer
stuff then you probably already have Novell DPD's phone numbers (800-729-4357,
or 512-794-1795). And from reading your message you're really asking about
network services access through Windows. Unfortunately it seems that if it
exists, it will exist at both Novell and Microsoft. (seems ripe for finger
pointing..) I would encourage you to ask your question through both Novell
and Microsoft developer's groups.

(I don't have any of the MS developer info handy, maybe someone else could
help..)

Jason
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