Hi Chris.
CH> I am running Warp 4 at home and because of
CH> the limited harddrive space and some of the things that I have to do
CH> the laptop that work provides has Win 95 on it. Could someone either
CH> point to a place where I can find step by step instructions or give me
CH> step by step instructions for connecting these two together?
I have Warp 4 here but its not yet installed (been too busy.....;-)), so the
following refers to Warp 3 which should be VERY similar.
The answer to your question depends pretty much on what you mean by
'connecting these two together', you can use either Warp Peer services or
TCP/IP for connectivity between the above platforms. Its my experience that
the most useful for a local LAN environment is probably 'Peer Services' so I
will assume that as the target. You also dont say if you have network cards
for each machine, however I will assume that you do.
Although it is possible to connect Peer Services using only serial ports,
this is NOT a desirable solution for performance reasons and requires some
extra configuration work, but it is certainly possible. Our work LAN also
uses this method to pass NETBIOS over TCP/IP to connect LAN segments around
the country, however our TCP/IP WAN links have plenty of resource so thats
not a problem.
At work we have Warp machines on the same LAN as Win311, Win95 and NT
machines, and they can all communicate with each other fine. In brief the
steps required to set up a Warp machine are -
- Configure the Network Adapter.
All the above systems use NETBIOS as the basic transport, so under
Warp you use MPTS to configure your Network Adapter, and ensure that
the transport protocol 'IBM OS/2 NETBIOS' is available on that
adapter. You dont need to touch any of the optional settings, the
defaults work fine.
- Configure 'OS/2 Peer Services'.
Again, the setup of this follows default settings, the only part to
watch is that each machine should have a UNIQUE network Id, so ensure
that the 'Peer Workstation Name' box contains a unique entry.
It also pays to align the 'Domain Name' with the same domain name
being used by NT or Warp Server (if either of these are present on
your LAN).
And thats about all thats needed to get the machines capable of talking to
each other. From here, you need to decide what Users and Resources are needed
for your environment.
Now its just a case of configuring -
- Users and their access rights,
This is setting up the login names and access rights that each user
has on THIS machine.
- The 'Shares'.
These are the actual resources on the Warp machine you wish to offer
to other workstations, and what access rights are needed to allow them
to get access to those resources.
- The 'Connections'.
These are the resources that you wish to conect to on OTHER mcahines,
IE the 'Shares' being offered on those machines.
Under OS/2 Warp, 'UPM Services' (User Profile Management Services) handles
the user information, and the 'Sharing and Connecting' folder handles the
last 2 items.
I hope this at least gets you started, in most cases the task is easier than
you think, but occasionally there are some odd quirks that you can run into.
If you need more detailed info, then point us at the area of the question and
just ask.
Regards..........pk.
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