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to: GEORGE BATALIAS
from: MIKE BILOW
date: 1997-11-25 18:45:00
subject: network

George Batalias wrote in a message to All:
 GB> I have a Pentium MMX with WIN95 i am trying to LAN together
 GB> with a 486 DOS 5.0 machine running MS Network Client for
 GB> DOS.... I can get the DOS machine to look at and use the WIN
 GB> 95 machine, BUT the WIN95 machine can't access the DOS
 GB> machine. Its PEER to PEER with THIN NET cable. Is this the
 GB> way its suppose to be? Or should the WIN95 machine be able
 GB> to look at and use the 486 DOS machine?
If you are using the free Microsoft CLIENT for DOS, then it is client only.
 GB> Maybe i should get LANTASTICS or NOVELL or some other
 GB> networking software????
Microsoft sells the Workgroup Add-On for DOS, a superset of the freeware 
client that supports operation as a peer server also.  It is about $50.
 
-- Mike
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