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to: NEIL CROFT
from: JOHAN ZWIEKHORST
date: 1998-03-12 20:52:00
subject: NT Client for OS/2

Hi Neil!
In your message to me, dated , you wrote:
 JZ>> OS/2 Warp 3 Connect and OS/2 Warp 4 will work fine, provides the
 JZ>> NT server uses NetBEUI. If the server is using IPX or TCP/IP
 JZ>> without
 >NC: It doesn't. I can guarantee that 'cos it's coming through an IP only
 >NC: firewall that I manage. =o)
 JZ>> NetBIOS, you can't connect to it with OS/2 clients (although you
 JZ>> can with NT Workstation and Win95). Basically, if Windows for
 JZ>> Workgroups can connect to it, so can OS/2.
 >NC: Time to play with the netbios over IP methinks.
Yes, that will work. I've tried it myself and an OS/2 client will recognize 
and connect to an NT server with NetBIOS over TCP/IP. It does mean a network 
performance penalty, however.
 ._|~/_
        johanzw@club.innet.be
        http://www.club.innet.be/~year1355/
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