MB> Dan Critchlow wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
RT> Right now I'm running dos/DV on this box,  but will likely be
RT> switching over to OS2 before too long.  Hopefully I'll end up with
RT> Warp Connect, which I understand has some networking capabilities
RT> built in?
 DC> Using WARP Connect here. Contains about every network
 DC> protocol you'll  need to connect with anything else. You can
 DC> share files, printers, com  ports( OS/2 apps only), etc.
 MB> OS/2 Warp Connect will function well as a peer server, but does 
 MB> not have good support for multiple users and permissions as you 
 MB> would want in a serious network.  For that kind of capability, 
 MB> you want OS/2 Warp Server.  On the other hand, for a home 
 MB> network where you want to share files and printers without big 
 MB> security concerns, OS/2 Warp Connect and its included OS/2 Peer 
 MB> Services will work fine.
That's pretty much what I had in mind here.  BTW,  I've never heard of "Warp 
Server" before.
 DC> I'm currently using TCP/IP which can also act as a sort of 
 DC> router for you Internet connection. I would probably suggest 
 DC> going TCP/IP,  since you plan on adding Linux to you network.
 DC> Linux being a UNIX  variation should almost certainly support
 DC> TCP/IP also.
 MB> Yes, even OS/2 Warp Connect will serve as an IP router, and IBM 
 MB> provides a lot of free services for it, supporting operation as 
 MB> an FTP server, a web server, and so on.  OS/2 Warp Server adds 
 MB> support for operation as an NFS server and a DNS server out of 
 MB> the box.
 MB> Linux has superb TCP/IP support, and comes with all the bells 
 MB> and whistles of a solid Unix implementation.  It's hard to run 
 MB> TCP/IP without at least one Unix machine somewhere.
The fact that I currently want to learn as much as I can as fast as I can 
about both (all?) varieties of networking,  and that I want to be able to 
dabble in the unix side of things without screwing around with the bbs 
machine and other similar stuff (no dual-boot here!) is why I decided that in 
the first place.
 MB> Linux can also run the Samba package, which provides direct 
 MB> interoperation with OS/2 Peer when running SMB/NetBIOS over 
 MB> TCP/IP.  
I've been trying to pick up that Samba package ever since you first mentioned 
it,  over in DOS_INERNET I think it was,  but although I've been able to 
*start* the transfer it seems to stall out pretty quickly.  I'll get a hold 
of it one of these days,  though.  Gotta be bad timing or something...
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