tracy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Phil Tracy) (05/24/91)
Can any of you fine folks recommend any inexpensive (free is nice) products which support peer-to-peer file sharing within a Novell 2.15c environment? I am currently using a modem-sharing package, which lets those work- stations which have modems share them on the LAN. Other machines, without modems, see a logical com1: device and use it. What I'd like is for one machine to share a disk drive, like e: or something, and have it accessed by other workstations as logical device (q: or something) I suspect this may be interesting to others, so I will compile and post replies. Feel free to post or email, though mail may make more sense, since I intend to post replies anyway. Thanks! -Phil -- Phillip Tracy Northwestern Univ. (312) 503-1536 tracy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Academic Computing Chicago, IL 60611
tracy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Phil Tracy) (05/29/91)
Here's the summary I promised: I received 4 responses to my question about peer-to-peer file sharing within a Novell Netware 2.15c environment. Three people suggested that I use Map Assist from Fresh Technology. (602-497-4200). One person also mentioned that I could probably use Lantastic-AI and Novell together. Also, several people asked about the modem-sharing I mentioned in the article. We are using PibTerm Lan package, from Broadview Communications Software, Inc. (708-491-2880) The author, Phil Burns, I know because we used to work together here at Northwestern. He has since gone private, and they publish several terminal emulation and communications software packages. PibTerm Lan uses the same standard INT-14 methods as other software, and works about the same, as I understand it. (I've only used the Broadview product, so I can't speak with authority here.) It has worked well to provide shared modems for the Lexis/Nexis service, and for a couple of other pieces of communications software. The only problem is a 'jerky' screen update -- the screen updates in bursts about a half-second apart -- at communcation speeds less than 4800 bps. Here are the people who replied: LANTASTIC octogard!graham@duke.cs.duke.edu (Graham Mainwaring) MAP ASSIST Greg Presedo-Floyd <gregpf@momenta.com> kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) nathan engle <nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> Thank you all for you help. I think I've included all relevant info in the posting, but feel free to contact me if something is unclear. -Phil -- Phillip Tracy Northwestern Univ. (312) 503-1536 tracy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Academic Computing Chicago, IL 60611