From: Enrique Baraibar 

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 06:53:22 -0700 (PDT)
Martin C  wrote:

> Hello. 
>
> snip
>
>
> The other option is to run mars-nwe in the server.
> Have anyone tried it in production? My program does
> run with it, but I need it to be reliable... And I
> haven't test it with many client neither... 
> 
> Thank you in advance!
> 
> Mart_n.
> 

A customer of mine (I am a CPA) has gone from NetWare 4.11 to Linux +
Mars-nwe.
The clients (about 12) run either DrDOS + VLM or Linux + DOSemu + DrDOS +
VLM.
It is now 8 months since the switch and they have never looked back.
Only caveat is that IPX interface must be created with IPXtools and not
repeat not with mars-nwe itself. It seems that if you use IPXtools the bug
which makes DOSemu clients lose idle connections after about 10 min.
vanishes
without trace.

IMHO, if you use DOS clients, you must go ncp. Micro$oft DOS client's
absurd memory requirement is about 200k. Compare this with the 5k of
Novell's DOS Client32 2.71 and, for me at least, there is no more time to
lose arguing.
 
Hth.

-- 
Enrique Baraibar


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