TMANOS@HARPERVM.BITNET (Ted Manos) (04/23/91)
Hello Novell users, I am looking for any good alternatives to using Novell NAS/NACS servers to allow remote LAN usage. We are currently running 4 separate NASs, each supporting 4 remote sessions using USR HST modems. In addition to using the remote sessions to access the LANs (a 3 server NW/386 internet) and the applications there, the remote sessions are also connecting to our mainframe via Novell SNA/Gateway and McGill Net3270 gateway sessions. This ahs all been working *relatively* satisfactorily for the past year or so. However, our requirements have recently changed, as have our desires. We now *have to* provide the remote users the capability to run some new applications packages on the LANs, and these packages will NOT work using the Novell NAS/NACS software. Nor are the remote users able to run Net3270 via the NASs - they can only run Novell's SNA/Gateway. We can no longer live with these limitations, and there seems to be no way, at least in the forseeable future, to rectify the problems with these programs not running on the NAS/NACSs. Therefore, we are no looking for any and all functional alternatives! If you happen to be running, or know of any possible alternative we might use, I would VERY MUCH appreciate hearing from you. One of the KEY requirements here is that we MUST be able to support *multiple* remote sessions on the same server (4 would be nice), as we currently have 16 remote access lines and are *hardly* likely to want to set up 16 separate remote gateway boxes! :^) Oh yeah...of course, management wants this all taken care of as of yesterday... :-) Please send replies directly to me, and I will summarize to the list(s) if there is sufficient interest. (Yes, I'm monitoring the lists now, but it *really* is much easier if you send the replies directly to me. Thx.) -Ted ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Manos NAD/TechRep/InfoRep BITNET : TMANOS@HARPERVM Systems & Networking Consultant Internet: tmanos%harpervm@UICVM.uic.edu Harper Community College UUCP net: !uunet!harpervm.bitnet!tmanos Palatine, IL 60067-7398 VoiceNet: (708) 980-7919 (Alpha Omega)