From: "Brenton" 
Reply-To: Brenton , Fidonet AVtech Echo
	

Hi Lance,

When I was writing my network OS, Lantastic did not use the SMB protocol and as
such would not link in with IBM or any MS-Net based lans.  This may have changed
with their later Windoze versions, but their early DOS only stuff was
proprietary.  The best, if not only way to get a XT running DOS linked into a
Windows network would be to use either, IBM PC-Lan or 3-Com ( I forget what they
called it ) or some other OEM implementation of MS-NET.  The downside is that
you can expect to see 48k being needed for the basic NetBIOS drivers for the
card and another 48-96k being required by the redirector, so expect a basic over
head of about 128kb.  Although you've got one show-stopper before you start, and
that will be neither of those products would/will support the proprietary
Lantastic Cards. To make this even a little tougher, there were a few different
versions of the proprietary Lantastic Cards and later versions of the software
did drop support for some of their earlier cards.

I  know this message doesn't give you the answer you were seeking, but sometimes
it can help to know which way the wind is blowing before you start pissing :)

Cheers, Brenton


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