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to: RICH WONNEBERGER
from: LAWRENCE GARVIN
date: 1998-04-05 23:41:00
subject: Sharing a WFWG printer...

Rich Wonneberger said in a message to Peter Knapper:
 RW> Maybe you can point me in the right direction..
 RW> I'm working on the same basic thing as Don.  I have a WFWG machine
 RW> I have to get a large number of files off of.  I have MS's TCP/IP
 RW> loaded on it.  I can ping back and forth between 4 machines (WFWG,
 RW> NT, W95, OS/2 4.0), they all seem to be talking to each other that
 RW> way, so I figure I'm close.  But no machines can see the WFWG
 RW> machine (or connect to it) and the WFWG cant see or connect to the
 RW> others.
 RW> There all on the same domain (turtil) and the machine name refer's
 RW> to the op system, so there shouldnt be a conflict..
On a WFWG machine, the protocol is referred to as "Windows Networking". It's 
the native Workgroups protocol.
I had a WFWG and OS/2 machine networked for several months at work. It will 
work. :)
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