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from: Alain
date: 2004-09-02 15:09:26
subject: Re: samba+TCP/IP client for DOS or mars-nwe+clients netware?

From: Alain 

Clould you please give more information about this VLM? What is it, 
where to find...

thanks,
Alain

Enrique Baraibar escreveu:

> 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.
> 


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