Al salaam a'alaykum JEAN

20 Aug 03 08:36, JEAN PARROT wrote to DAVID DRUMMOND:

 JP>  Hello, David, a nice day to you. 

 DD>> It depends on the network OS at each machine. Until they all run the
 DD>> same thing, they won't communicate with each other. That thing may be
 DD>> TCP/IP, or netbui, or IPX....

 JP>         I was mentioning the use of a DCC here. If no other protocol 
 JP> is        initialized, Netbeui is required. I have no fondation to this
 JP>         ascertainement other than mine only worked on DCC when it was
 JP>         selected.

Ah. I've only ever used things like LapLink with a direct connect cable,
I've never actually set up a network as such on it.

 DD>> I have no netbui protocol running on my LAN here - all machines
 DD>> communicate with each other quite happily.

 JP>         I will go along with you. A LAN is a little bit more like a
 JP>         network than a DCC connection, methinks. A DCC is more like a
 JP>         strickly DOS operation of old days.

Slackware Linux used to have an option for TCP/IP networking over a
parallel port link. I haven't noticed if the option is still there in the
later ones or not.. With NICs being so cheap and easy to come by these
days, why bother?

Regards,
David

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