Re: LANceGS Ethernet Card: First Look

[russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)]

In article <399b5431.236314@24.9.0.17>,
Jeff Blakeney <CUTblakeney@home.com> wrote:
}On 16 Aug 2000 21:06:15 -0500, tanya@belly.net (Tanya) wrote:
}
}>Forget NetBEUI and IPX/SPX.  Do NetBIOS over TCP/IP.  Much more
}>useful.  This gets you talking to Windows AND Linux  AND Mac if the
}>Mac has something like DAVE installed!   What else do you need?
}>NetBEUI is old Windows and IPX/SPX is dead Netware.  Neither protocol
}>is used too much these days.
}
}Personally, I wouldn't worry about anything other than TCP/IP.  The
}IIgs, Macs and PCs running BeOS or any version of Windows or Unix can
}all deal with TCP/IP.
}
}The big thing we need is a file sharing system that will work for all
}of those operating systems.  I know Windows file sharing works over
}TCP/IP as that is what I have set up at home.  I don't know if there
}is any support for Windows file sharing for the other systems, though.
}I know there isn't for the IIgs.  :-)

Why not just do simple FTP, at least at first?  It's not as easy to
use but it's available for pretty much any platform and there's plenty
of source code available for implementing it (assuming you've written
the sockets layer).

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Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
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