David Greer ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: Does anyone have suggestions for what's the best way
: to go about networking our at-home PCs to the office network?
I personally would (and have) switch over to the Linux Operating system on
my PC end. With a full-blown UNIX on your PC's, you can have SLIP/PPP
and full Internetworking/UUCP support, allowing you to mount remote file
systems and such, whereas NT and other Windoze products may not implement
full featured Networking as well. I've heard NT and other such OS's are
slow in the TCP/IP area, and do not offer 100% full networking features.
Linux is a freeware UNIX operating system. It is totally safe and
secure, supporting PCI buses (unlike some other Unices) and would be
easier to implement onto your already established UNIX network. I find
the SLIP software to be very easy to use and install, and now there is a
new PPP package for Linux which is just as easy as the SLIP. Another
bonus: Linux will run on top of a DOS fs (or can use it's own) without
great speed loss, run DOS software with emulation, run in 2Mb RAM, and
support all IBM standard Unix applications with ICBS software.
Linux is 100% free, and is used even by NASA.
You can get it from sunsite.unc.edu or order the Slackware Linux CDROM,
complete with XWindows R6, C/C++, SmallTalk, TCP/IP, the works for
around $60.00
: Our main goals would be to connect to our HP-UX and MPE machines. To
: me this implies sending TCP/IP over the modem. SLIP or PPP is the
: usual solution here. Of course, there's no SLIP for MPE. We had enough
: problems getting our Internet connection working over SLIP (even with
: Ross Scroggs and Randy Medd walking us through it) that I wouldn't
: rush into trying to use the HP-UX ppl software (this is HP's SLIP
: implementation).
If the source for mped is available (or the SCO compatible binary) you
can even use that under Linux, but not NT, and thus send commands to the
MPE systems.
: We recently installed Windows NT. It's Remote Access Service (RAS)
: allows remote users access the server using NETBEUI. This is great,
: but it doesn't let me connect to our HP-UX and MPE machines. Recently,
: the Trumpet Winsock was enhanced to support dialing out over a modem.
: I have a Windows NT FAQ that shows how to configure RAS for SLIP. Has
: anyone tried running R1WIN over Trumpet Winsock dial-up with Windows
: NT as the server?
: I gave WRQ RNS a try on WFWG 3.11 with RAS in the hope that WFWG 3.11
: would support enough networking to make all of this work. Needless to
: say, it didn't work, but WRQ did say that RAS support for NDIS
: (version 2 I think) is suppose to part of Windows '95 RAS. Should I
: just wait for that?
: We can't be the only ones that have this need. Remote computing is a
: way of life for many people. I know that many HP3000-L readers have a
: PC at home. Do you feel like me that half the things that you are used
: to are missing when you are home?
: Feel free to e-mail comments directly to me and I'll summarize
: whatever I find out for the list.
: Thanks,
: David <[log in to unmask]>
Daniel Kosack -=Proud user of Linux 1.1.91 and MPE enthusiast=-
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